The Language Spammers: Spam Trick Innovators

Language spammers are quick to adapt all English spam tricks. We often see them apply various spam methods, such as the insertion of randomized characters, digits, or symbols into header and body text or the sending of spam messages as document or image attachments in order to bypass spam filters on a daily basis. In fact, they have learned so well (and quickly) that they are becoming spam trick innovators, with their language as an added advantage. Now you can read (or rather, “speak”) different language messages utilizing this new spam trend—there is a new trick that you won’t find in English spam. In this new trick, language spammers are taking advantage of playing around with pronunciation, spelling, and different written characters in their languages.
We recently observed Russian and Chinese spammers applying these tricks in their spam ads. The following two samples are from the same online marketing spammer. In the first example, the spammer sent out Russian language spam email that is selling ads:

Using this latest trick, spammers sent out mail with the same content but with the Russian words spelled out using letters from the English alphabet. In other words, when the message is read aloud, it still sounds like Russian:

We have seen this spam trick being used in Chinese spam. There are more than 40,000 Chinese (continue reading...)