Why all spam ought to be Chinese :-)

Spam seems to be a fact of life, but unlike many of my friends and colleagues, I don't find it difficult to filter useful mail from junk. Also, lately the spam filters seem to have improved ("learned") a bit, which makes the life easier. However, another thing that makes my life easier is the so-called geopolitical shift towards East. In the beginning, Internet was English-only, but today Easter countries like China, Japan and other are growing to be the majority. This of course reflects the language of the junk mail.

Since I don't read Chinese for example, it is very easy to spot what I call the "Chinese spam” out of my normal mail. In fact, if all spam would be in such languages, it would make the life even easier. :-) As you see, I don't care much about mails that say things like "»¤s¸t¡@­º³¡"µL"½X"¼v¤ù¢°¢´¢´¢¯§K¹B¶OU" in the subject line.