Hey Brian, On 01.06.19 12:17, Brian Kantor via mailop wrote: > For the past several months, one of the mailboxes on one of my > servers has been getting messages, mostly in Chinese character sets > that I can't decipher, short little messages from various senders > with FROM addresses like 123456...@qq.com. At least a thousand a > day, sometimes as many as 2500 or more in one 24-hour period.
"Tencent QQ, also known as QQ, is an instant messaging software service developed by the Chinese tech giant Tencent." In China people prefer digits over letters. To a native English-speaker, remembering a long string of digits might seem harder than memorizing a word - but that’s if you understand the word. So for many Chinese, numbers are easier to remember than Latin characters... Sometimes these are also homophones - similar sounding. Like 1688.com is pronounced “yow-leeyoh-ba-ba" - alibaba.com. I'd guess someone is abusing the system - perhaps similar to all the Skype requests people get / got a while ago? Regards, Thomas Walter -- Thomas Walter Datenverarbeitungszentrale FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences - Corrensstr. 25, Raum B 112 48149 Münster Tel: +49 251 83 64 908 Fax: +49 251 83 64 910 www.fh-muenster.de/dvz/ _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
