The Null Device

I am not American

From my SpamCop filter:
[5028] yourcrush@someonelikesyou.com (You're someone's American Idol _Preview_ )

That's funny, because last time I checked, I wasn't American.

That's one of the annoying things about spam; other than assuming that you're a financially bankrupt sexually depraved narcissist, most of it assumes that you're (a) American, or (b) fluent in Spanish, Chinese or Korean. I suppose if someone's already a bottom-feeding scumbag, there's no point in them weeding out the obviously inappropriate addresses. After all, it's not like it's their own network bandwidth they're wasting. Hell, why not? Who says there isn't at least one gullible Sino-Argentino-American pornhound somewhere in the .aq domain?

Oh, and if you're the one who has been submitting my address to those "someone has a crush on you" websites, don't bother; I don't feed them. (Given that they're a scam for harvesting email addresses for spamming, for one.) (In fact, if you've developed a crush on someone just by reading their blog, I suggest that you see your mental health professional.)

There are 3 comments on "I am not American":

Posted by: Dee http://www.viscerate.com Wed Mar 5 05:05:03 2003

What I really, really like is the spam telling me I need better anti-spam protection. I'm waiting for one to say: "This email is proof!" Of course, they could already be saying that. Since my mail filtering program allows me to delete them without reading, I wouldn't know. I'm sure this is very zen. On some level.

Posted by: Anton Sherwood http://www.ogre.nu/ Sat Mar 8 08:56:22 2003

Some spams lately warn me not to fall for *other* get-rich-quick schemes. And what's with all the ads for Norton Utilities?!

I've had lots of spam sent from Korea and Latin America, but very little *in* Korean or Spanish. Some in Japanese and lots in Chinese, though.

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Sat Mar 8 12:38:44 2003

I keep getting spam in Spanish, which seems to be selling newsletters, CDs of email addresses and such.

As for Asian languages, I can't tell them apart when coerced to ASCII. (I use mutt for reading my mail.)