OT: Is SPAM traffic way down?

[Henry de Valence]

On Monday 10 March 2008 10:52:11 Alex Beamish wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Ivan Avery Frey 
<ivan.frey-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > My U of T email which used to receive 100 spam email per day is now 
only
> >  receiving 12.
> >
> >  To what do I owe my good fortune?
> >
> >  BTW, the figures above refer to what U of T's spam folder was dropping
> >  into my IMAP junk-mail folder.
>
> Lucky you .. over the last six months or so, my GMail spam folder has
> usually had about 3000 messages, but lately it's been creeping up ..
> I'm now over 4800 messages. That's whatever gets kept for 30 days.
>
> I used to go into the folder and clean it up, but I don't bother anymore.

I have ~220, and I've recently noticed an increase in spam with 
Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, which is odd, because I don't know 
why they would send it to me... I have also been getting a bunch of the 
"You've got a bunch of money suddenly" emails, but I've had those for a 
while. Here's part of one of the stranger ones:
> The reason for depositing this money in Nigeria is due to the position
> of Nigeria in the West African Sub-Region as Big Brother and also in a
> way that it will not be traced, so you do not have to entertain any
> fears concerning the process of moving this money,
> for every arrangement
> has been concluded, so just send your full details, like you full name
> and address, your personal phone number this will be used to process all
> the back up documents, The reason for not using his business partner in
> the United Kingdom is to avoid being implicated, as his Junior brother
> Charles Taylor is standing trial in Hague for his crime against
> humanity. i wait to hear from you urgently.

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