Russians are the better spammers!

[Mister Micawber]

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I had never thought of that-- it is certainly a possibility.
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who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's
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[Kievstar]

Yes Mister Micawber, it might be a possibility. Or it might simply be yet another spam message from a Russian speaking web user who calls himself Alexandr. The Internet is full of those people who think they must use (or rather abuse) this medium to promote their ideas of market economy. I think they have a long way to go though. Just some basic rules of human interaction might be in place here. What about putting Alexandr's email address online so his spam colleagues can send him spam messages too?

[Mister Micawber]

Is there a way of converting that into Cyrillic, Kievstar?-- all I can see are rococo vowels.
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Canadian-American native speaker
who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's
ESL cafe: Interview with Mister Micawber

[Kievstar]

This is what our friend has to say:

Вы наверняка уже задумывались о привлечении на свой сайт целевых посетителей...
(для тех, кто не знает: целевые посетители - это именно те посетители, которые максимально заинтересованы
в услугах/товарах/информации, предлагаемых Вашим сайтом).

Возможно ли добиться, чтобы из 100 посетителей каждый - 20 делали заказ? Безусловно!
Для этого Вам необходимы прочные высокии позиции в поисковых системах по соответствующим запросам.
Мы можем Вам это обеспечить:
- резкий приток посетителей;
- продвижение в поисковых системах по нужным поисковым запросам без ограничений по срокам;
- к Вам будут приходить именно те, кто Вам нужен и кому нужен Ваш сайт;
- индивидуальный подход;
- кратчайшие сроки.

Ввиду наличия недоброжелателей адрес своего сайта приводить не будем.
Обращайтесь по ICQ 178730725 (Александр).

Всего доброго.

[Kievstar]

He's talking about driving targeted traffic to websites thereby completely missing the point. Spammers have no idea of what targeted traffic really means. They completely ignore the fact that no one is interested in their mental garbage.

[Mister Micawber]

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Thanks, Kievstar-- at least you satisfied my curiosity, and that of other monolinguals here.
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Canadian-American native speaker
who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's
ESL cafe: Interview with Mister Micawber

[Kievstar]

Yes Mister Micawber and Alexandr gave me a good opportunity to give him a real tongue lashing I wonder if he understands some basic English? If so he could benefit from this forum...

[englishfan]

Why is this thread called 'Russians are the better spammers'? Are you suggesting that Russians or Russian speaking people are spammers per se? I have read in an article that the vast majority of all spam messages originate from servers that are based in the US. You could argue that the operators of those servers are Russian speaking but do you have any proof for your allegation?
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Others smile and change it.

[Sidle Jinks]

Hello everybody!

[englishfan]

Hi Sidle Jinks, I moved to Canada last year so I pretty much consider two countries mine I think it's not so much a question of whether or not spamming is penal action because as you said yourself it's very difficult to nail down those people and identify them as spammers. Anyway, how do you personally cope with spam? Do you use a spam filter?
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Others smile and change it.

[Sidle Jinks]

Hi everybody!