Cyrillic Spam, in large quantities. WTF??

In My Humble Opinion (IMHO)
#1

So lately the last few times I’ve done the cursory-peek thing at my Trash folder before keystroking the “Empty Trash” command in Eudora, I’ve had spam with Cyrillic characters in the Subject line, 3 sometimes 4 messages.

NOTE TO SELF: wow, you can encode the character set of the subject line itself, who knew?

Particularly weird were the ones that did mix-n-match with their alphabets: "hey ahunter3, " followed by a string of Cyrillic characters. Reaching out to that English/Russian bilingual audience of computer geeks?

I’m seldom curious about spam. I know way TMI about most of it from the moment I glance at the subject line (“Watch me Shovve BIG c0øcks up the blodd-oozing ripped a&nal tunnels of screaming barnyard an1mals”) but I’m oddly intrigued, don’t know why. (The east-Asian language spam doesn’t inspire me to wonder about content). Maybe because it’s new (I’m sure the novelty will wear off soon enough).

Y’all getting it too?

#2

I’ve been getting the same for a while. The subject line always has a bunch of gibberish that uses a lot of accented characters. I set my e-mail filter to delete any incoming messages that used these characters in the subject line. Now I only see one or two a month.

#3

I’m getting loads of it.

#4

Actually, I tell a lie. I’m getting the Cyrillic stuff in the message field only. The subject line is the usual “Free P0rn h0t Chix” or whatever.

#5

I get tons of Cyrillic spam (even posted a thread about it a few weeks back); oddly enough, I can read Russian, and most of it isn’t porn but rather ads for bulk e-mailing services based in Moscow.

Are you noticing a pattern to the domains it comes from?

#6

I haven’t opened but one of them, and I didn’t take notice of what domain it was from. I just verified that the message text was all Cyrillic and then clicked the Eudora “blah blah blah” button to reveal the raw unfiltered/uninterpreted ASCII of the message to see how they got the subject line to come out in Cyrillic. They all get trashed by my spam filters but I peek now and then (in case some clown I used to know sends me legitimate email with three exclamation points in the subject or something; or sometimes just for an idle glance at the incredible harvest of junk before I delete it all, kind of like gawking at a car crash as you go by)