Chinese spam adopts a vertical strategy

June 25th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Spam Favorites | Leave a comment »

Spam in Chinese is problematic for traditional content-filtering anti-spam engines for several reasons:

Chinese characters are “double-byte”, as opposed to “single-byte” like non-Asian languages. The second byte is due to the fact that one byte isn’t enough to transmit all the necessary information since the alphabet is so much larger than western languages like, for example, [...]