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Canadian here who can barely get past ni hao... My voice mail from SPAM tends to be Mandarin, so I think it's a shotgun blast to the 5%
by passwordoops 2y ago
Canadian here who can barely get past ni hao... My voice mail from SPAM tends to be Mandarin, so I think it's a shotgun blast to the 5%
- pavel_lishin 2y agoAs an American with a Texas area code, I noticed a wave of Chinese-language† spam - I recall reading that it was some sort of scam involving threats of deportation, maybe? But it settled down after a few weeks. Maybe their targeting got better, or maybe enough word got around the Chinese-speaking community to make the scam unprofitable. † - I have on idea which language specifically was being spoken. Probably Mandarin, but how would I know?
- graemep 2y agoIn the UK, and I get lots of spam calls on my mobile that are initially in English but end with "press one for English or 2 for Chinese" or similar, and you get connected to someone speaking Chinese either way. Most of them are from "immigration department" (incorrect terminology for the UK BTW) and are about invalid visas or the like. Some claim to be from the Chinese Embassy.