# Getting Spam in 9 Languages Now

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-spam-in-9-languages-now/957496>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 10, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-spam-in-9-languages-now/957496 "2022-01-10T02:37:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-spam-in-9-languages-now/957496/1 "2022-01-10T02:37:36Z")

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With the arrival of an indecipherable (OK, I could have used Google Translate, probably) email in what is I assume to be Afrikaans-- the first line of the second paragraph is this: “Ek het baie goeie ervarings uit my jeug met sprekers van Afrikaans,” I am officially being spammed in 9 languages.

Last week, for some unknown reason, I began receiving posts from something called Foundation Operation X for languages, cultures and perspectives, which are in Latin, and the best I can figure from one year of high school Latin, is that this group is trying to revive Latin as a living language.

I also get spam in Czech, Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish, French, and good ole English.

Now, I have posted in Spanish, Hebrew, and English, and maybe a few times in French, or at least about French, and I do kinda sorta still read Russian (I spoke it when I was 10). But I have never known Czech, just Slovak (and as of yet, not received spam in Slovak). I speak a mishmash of different dialects of Yiddish, but don’t read or write it, and have never posted in it. I also have never posted in Russian.

Where do people get my name and email address? Or do they send crap to everyone because it’s free?

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**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-spam-in-9-languages-now/957496/2 "2022-01-10T23:22:30Z")

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@RivkahChaya It’s just you. 😉

I get spammed in Polish, despite my very Irish name. Go figure. But also Hindu, Tamil, and Mandarin. I speak English, French, and a bit of German. I do sometimes get French spam, but it doesn’t surprise me because I belong to a couple of essentially French groups, though I rarely post.