I keep seeing mesages on here with subject lines like this.
ÏÚæÉ Çáì ÇáÊÃãá ÈÕæÑ ÇáÇÚÕÇÑ (ÊæÌæ) ÕæÑ
What the heck are they? Is this some foreign thing or what?

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I keep seeing mesages on here with subject lines like this.
ÏÚæÉ Çáì ÇáÊÃãá ÈÕæÑ ÇáÇÚÕÇÑ (ÊæÌæ) ÕæÑ
What the heck are they? Is this some foreign thing or what?

Some sort of phishing or spam, in some arabic language apparently.

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:41:47 -0400, "jeffc" wrote:


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I keep seeing mesages on here with subject lines like this.
ÏÚæÉ Çáì ÇáÊÃãá ÈÕæÑ ÇáÇÚÕÇÑ (ÊæÌæ) ÕæÑ
What the heck are they? Is this some foreign thing or what?

Some sort of phishing or spam, in some arabic language apparently.


Recently I've seen a lot of subject lines with "???????????" in them.
The message body will be mostly question marks too. I've checked the
headers and most of them are posted from Google.
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please ignore it. If you don't know how to
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On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:57:24 -0500, wrote:

I keep seeing mesages on here with subject lines like this.
ÏÚæÉ Çáì ÇáÊÃãá ÈÕæÑ ÇáÇÚÕÇÑ (ÊæÌæ) ÕæÑ
What the heck are they? Is this some foreign thing or what?

Extended (or high) - ascii character data.

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Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

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I keep seeing mesages on here with subject lines like this.
ÏÚæÉ Çáì ÇáÊÃãá ÈÕæÑ ÇáÇÚÕÇÑ (ÊæÌæ) ÕæÑ
What the heck are they? Is this some foreign thing or what?



Usually a message posted using a non-English language font. If you never
install those fonts you will have a much smaller chance of getting screwed
by the scammers from those countries. There really isn't anyone there that I
want to talk to so I have all non-English fonts blocked on my computer.

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:29:02 -0400, "Colbyt"
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I keep seeing mesages on here with subject lines like this.
ÏÚæÉ Çáì ÇáÊÃãá ÈÕæÑ ÇáÇÚÕÇÑ (ÊæÌæ) ÕæÑ
What the heck are they? Is this some foreign thing or what?



Usually a message posted using a non-English language font. If you never
install those fonts you will have a much smaller chance of getting screwed
by the scammers from those countries. There really isn't anyone there that I
want to talk to so I have all non-English fonts blocked on my computer.

What do you mean by blocking non-English fonts? What does that do?

mm wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:29:02 -0400, "Colbyt"
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I keep seeing mesages on here with subject lines like this.
ÏÚæÉ Çáì ÇáÊÃãá ÈÕæÑ ÇáÇÚÕÇÑ (ÊæÌæ) ÕæÑ
What the heck are they? Is this some foreign thing or what?


Usually a message posted using a non-English language font. If you never
install those fonts you will have a much smaller chance of getting screwed
by the scammers from those countries. There really isn't anyone there that I
want to talk to so I have all non-English fonts blocked on my computer.

What do you mean by blocking non-English fonts? What does that do?

It means that he doesn't see them. Out of sight, out of mind. Same
thing as a kill file for specific submitters, just a little more
generic. Not a bad idea either.
What's bad is when someone responds to the filtered posts and
manages to quote the whole damn thing to say, "WTF?" or that they've
reported it as spam. Then not only does he waste his (and my) time
trying to read the spam/junk but then that "reposter" (who is doing
the originator a great favor) borders on getting added to my kill file.
That help?
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Grandpa

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:52 GMT, Grandpa wrote:

mm wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:29:02 -0400, "Colbyt"
wrote:

wrote in message
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I keep seeing mesages on here with subject lines like this.
ÏÚæÉ Çáì ÇáÊÃãá ÈÕæÑ ÇáÇÚÕÇÑ (ÊæÌæ) ÕæÑ
What the heck are they? Is this some foreign thing or what?


Usually a message posted using a non-English language font. If you never
install those fonts you will have a much smaller chance of getting screwed
by the scammers from those countries. There really isn't anyone there that I
want to talk to so I have all non-English fonts blocked on my computer.

What do you mean by blocking non-English fonts? What does that do?

It means that he doesn't see them. Out of sight, out of mind. Same
thing as a kill file for specific submitters, just a little more
generic. Not a bad idea either.

So he blocks *posts* with non-English fonts. I get it. Thanks.

What's bad is when someone responds to the filtered posts and
manages to quote the whole damn thing to say, "WTF?" or that they've
reported it as spam. Then not only does he waste his (and my) time
trying to read the spam/junk but then that "reposter" (who is doing
the originator a great favor) borders on getting added to my kill file.
That help?

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:34:47 -0400, mm
wrote:

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:00:52 GMT, Grandpa wrote:

mm wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:29:02 -0400, "Colbyt"
wrote:

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I keep seeing mesages on here with subject lines like this.
ÏÚæÉ Çáì ÇáÊÃãá ÈÕæÑ ÇáÇÚÕÇÑ (ÊæÌæ) ÕæÑ
What the heck are they? Is this some foreign thing or what?


Usually a message posted using a non-English language font. If you never
install those fonts you will have a much smaller chance of getting screwed
by the scammers from those countries. There really isn't anyone there that I
want to talk to so I have all non-English fonts blocked on my computer.

What do you mean by blocking non-English fonts? What does that do?

It means that he doesn't see them. Out of sight, out of mind. Same
thing as a kill file for specific submitters, just a little more
generic. Not a bad idea either.


While I did sort of figure it was spam, I cant understand this foreign
font thing. I dont have any of them installed, but I still see these
posts on the newsgroups and there is no way to filter them that I can
think of. But as another reply person said, this is upper ascii. That
I know because I have used character map. How anyone can read this
sort of stuff amazes me.

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On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:29:02 -0400, "Colbyt"
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Usually a message posted using a non-English language font. If you never
install those fonts you will have a much smaller chance of getting screwed
by the scammers from those countries. There really isn't anyone there that
I
want to talk to so I have all non-English fonts blocked on my computer.

What do you mean by blocking non-English fonts? What does that do?



IE and Outlook both have an "install on demand" feature for foreign language
fonts like Korean, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic and so on. If you turn that
feature off, when you get SPAM mail from those countries the sender and
title are gibberish. You just delete them and don't waste time opening
them.

If on the other hand you have "install on demand" on that text is rendered
in English by Outlook and you read their crap. A lot of SPAM comes from
those countries.

If you happen to visit a site written in the foreign font you may be asked
if you want to install it. I usually don't. Sometimes the page will load
correctly and other times I Google some more for an English speaking site.

Colbyt