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> uck off

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> Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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> That won't work. I doubt this, or any other chinese idiot spammer can
> actually read English. If she could, she'd have a real job. Besides,
> chinese spammers never actually read usenet. It's just a place for them to
> put their ads.
>
> This also illustrates why anything with a IP# belonging to china (including
> hong kong and taiwan) should be firewalled at the router.
>
> So long as chinese spammers think they can make money, nothing else
> matters. Not laws, not morals. Nothing. You could offer one of them a
> nickel for the right arm of their mother. Not only would they happily do it,
> they'll go buy a knife first, and then brag about how much money they're
> going to make. Apparentally a total lack of business sense and math is
> also essential if you want to be a successful chinese spammer.

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> Doug Jacobs wrote:
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> Yeah, it's getting bad at the moment, like constant bombardment. My
> spam filters on email are working overtime and since joining this
> group I have tons of either chinese or taiwanese (I assume) spam in my
> spamtrap. Odd ones get through, I'm not that great at stopping it all.
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> oops, thought I was in the digital photo group :O) It's since joining
> THAT group I seem to get more spam of an oriental nature

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> Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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> No problem.
>
> For me, it wasn't until I started reading the console groups that I
> started getting chinese spam. At first it was just the pirates out in
> hong kong and malaysia. At one point, they got into a fight as I'd get
> spam that'd say things like "We honest business men - not like chinese
> thieves!" Yeah, that's what the world needs - an honest, spamming, warez
> pirate.
>
> Nowadyas, I'm filtering at least 1500 messages from china, taiwan and
> korea every day. Most are in chinese/korean. A few are for clueless
> import/export shops looking for business contacts. One company wanted to
> import high-quality specula's. I wrote back saying I was only interested
> in bad-quality specula's, and got an indecipherable response back in
> Chinese. The ISPs don't care because they're making money. Although I
> have heard that "interesting" things happen sometimes when you write email
> to the ISP administrator indicating that their intent to support the Free
> Tibet association - which was cleverly disguised as a spam message - has
> been received. Doesn't work anymore as no chinese ISP has any valid
> registration information available. This alone means they aren't worth
> exchanging packets with.

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> matters. Not laws, not morals. Nothing.

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> That sounds like the good old American way too me. ;)

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> That sounds like the good old American way too me. ;)

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> terryfied <terryvickers999@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Maybe, but at least when you sign a contract with most Americans, they'll
> stick to it - even if it's only because they fear the legal repercussions.
>
> Contracts mean little, if anything, to Chinese. Even once you've signed a
> contract on a deal, Chinese people will think they can still try to
> negotiate on things - even trying to break the contract outright if they
> feel they no longer have anything to gain.
>
> Even Chinese hate doing business with other Chinese because they know what
> will happen. But often times, the initial deal or cost is so attractive,
> it seems worth the risk.
>
> Most Chinese also have such bad business sense, it's like they all went
> through the same Bizzaro MBA Program or something. One of the biggest
> mistakes they make is that they take profits out of their revenues first.
> A restaurant owner sees that he makes $500 during lunch and thinks "I made
> $500 profit - that's my money!" But fails to realize that he still has to
> pay salaries, taxes, pay for the food he bought, rent, etc. Instead he
> pockets the $500, then whines he has no money to run his business. Ah,
> yes. Chinese bookkeeping at its best!
>
> And these are for the "legitimate" businesses. I can't imagine the type
> of math employed by a Chinese spammer...