At a party on Saturday, the subject of the huge amount of Chinese language spam came up. Lucky had the best idea: reply to it with forbidden language about arms shipments, revolution, etc.
The general idea is to say something like "Thank you for your communication. Death to the fascist Communist government!" I've been doing this today, with a special .sig set up to include some English language about "Death to the Communist Party" and shipments of nerve gas (VX) through Hong Kong. I sought out some actual Chinese character "forbidden language." I found some Falun Gong (the banned Chinese cult) material, in some variant of Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese...I don't really know) material and included it in my .sig. Enough of these sorts of replies (please invent your own!!) could maybe get some of these spammers killed by their governments. Please do your part. Here's one of the ones I sent back today: (OS X on the Mac shows the Chinese characters well, Unicode and all, but your mailer may not.) Begin forwarded message: > From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon Feb 25, 2002 05:33:12 PM US/Pacific > To: CB8CBCB<xCB(kCB$kCB&XCB'@CB(CBCB7~CB9CBCB&CB1 > Cc: CBwCB*CB/CB%[CB$J > Subject: Re: h* e>5g7e%3ed=d:f%-e$%d<4 > > > On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 05:03 PM, B8CB<xB(kB$kB&XB'@B(CB7~B9CB&C1 wrote: > >> B >> B >> h* e>5g7e%3ed=d:f%-e$%d<4 >> >> 360e:&g7d8 ge1 >> >> be0 eg(d8 eg"f hh6# >> >> bfee(f >f3h&e1eg6gd:f%-ge$%d<4 >> >> B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B >B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B bf"f<h*ff(h& >> >> h+d>i;:B 0927-394-152 >> > Long Live Falun Gong! Death to the Chinese Communist Party! > ****U R G E N T**** > Crypto transmission failed...arms shipment to Shanghai delayed...will > re-route through Hong Kong...nerve gas (VX) to follow soonest. > > Death to oppressors of Falun Gong! > 2002FC 2bB,25B;bb bB+bbbB* > B*b"bKN)C7B B1B1B.B1b!B:b b >KbB?B1B1C&B)N)B4bCbObB.B,C7OB6B?B)bOB5N)bB?OK > d8-e=d<e>e(g>e=i"ed8 f6g-f3h=.e f/eg>e=d::f d?!e% geeeg+e=d9f,hig8fgc... > d; e$)efe$)e8d;f;g;i=e(ed:,h/e>ed8-e=gi"e/<d::h>>fe1h/c > h?d9f/d8d8*e%=f:d<f%fif1f3=f0d8;e8-e d;gee?d;,o< > h?+e.3ee93d?!d;0h?e (f/d8g' d;d;,ih&e(d8-e=f>e<gh!d8:c