Katakana spam

I’m not sure how I would manage without the Gmail spam filter.  A consequence of having my email address published for any nefarious spiders to pick up, I suppose.

But, even then, it’s not perfect.  I’ve had a couple of important messages spammed by mistake and so remain unread.  So, I try and look once a week just to make sure I’m not missing anything.

Lately the volume of messages has exploded, and the vast majority of them appear to be coming from Asia:

Asian Spam

Is this just me or are others seeing the same thing?  Any idea what’s behind this?

2 Responses to “Katakana spam”


  1. 1 gavin knight March 24, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    i’ve been getting a similar result in my public @gmail account for some months now.

    although i get almost no spam in my personal domain email which is hosted by google apps.

  2. 2 sue March 24, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    lately i seem to get what looks like Arabic spam through gmail

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