In Europe, Auto Spam Translation Kicks In

An anonymous reader writes "While spam levels globally remain at a two-year high of approximately 90 percent, some European countries are seeing levels of over 95%. According to a new MessageLabs report (PDF here), countries such as Germany, France and the Netherlands are being heavily targeted by spammers with automated spam translation techniques. The use of automated translation services enables multiple-language spam runs and is responsible for a 13% increase in spam levels in these countries since May."

Re:Translation quality

[dunkelfalke]

if automated filtering would be that good then you could use the same engine to make the actual automatic translation.

Re:Hey it me. We held last week, but you never ask

[codeButcher]

My guess would be no, since if a machine can recognize a bad translation, it would probably also be able to use the same techniques to provide a better one - or at the least, come up with a number of translations then choose the best one from the bunch using the technique.

It will be an arms race all over again.

Re:Translation quality

[VincenzoRomano]

Checking translation error patterns is not translating. I think.

Re:Still

[Tony Hoyle]

USA originates twice as much spam as China.. the current most prolific spammer in the world is.... American (thanks to CAN SPAM).

Whereas it's much more multinational than it used to be there's one country always at the top of the list.

Re:Obligatory(?...)

[arndawg]

Soviet Russia was never funny... Also the meme was pretty boring to.