Chinese Spam

Asian language spam

[jacobwissler]

I have had problems with spam in the past. A spammer sent thousands of emails, using my domains as the return address, and as a result I got black listed on a few email systems, making it impossible for my clients to write to me. I had to start using gmail a few months ago.

My email address is all over my websites, so it is no secret. Yesterday I began getting over 100 spam emails written entirely in Chinese. There are no English words, not even in the subject line. Why would a business in China want to send so many emails written in Chinese, to an American business? Has anyone else experienced this?

[jeffb]

>>Has anyone else experienced this?<<

Frequently. But it gives something to think about: the next time you start getting excited over an unsolicited email where someone tells you that they think you have a really great product and want to help you promote it with their "cannot fail" system for raking in tons of money, realize that that spammer probably is only marginally more selective in sending out his spam than the Chinese spammer was.

[jatar_k]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld jacobwissler,

>> Has anyone else experienced this?

yep, all the time, though the chinese spam I get has reduced wuite a bit in favour of all the german span that has been going around. I get a ton of spanish spam on one domain because it sounds remotely spanish.

spam is just spam, there is seldom rhyme nor reason

>> sent thousands of emails, using my domains as the return address

had that happen to my personal email as well, one of those things.

You should at very least encode the emails on your pages, it helps a little. try this search [google.com]. At very least then the low level harvesters won't be able to read them. ;)