# Cyrillic Spam, in large quantities. WTF?? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 5, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-spam-in-large-quantities-wtf/211619 "2003-11-05T21:30:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-spam-in-large-quantities-wtf/211619/1 "2003-11-05T21:30:48Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-spam-in-large-quantities-wtf/211619/2 "2003-11-05T22:18:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-spam-in-large-quantities-wtf/211619/3 "2003-11-05T22:22:21Z")
I’m getting loads of it. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-spam-in-large-quantities-wtf/211619/4 "2003-11-05T23:09:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-spam-in-large-quantities-wtf/211619/5 "2003-11-06T02:24:02Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-spam-in-large-quantities-wtf/211619/6 "2003-11-06T02:51:30Z")
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)