The latest spam subject line is "YOUR EMAIL HAS WON YOU AN AMERICA VISA". (I am, as it happens, an American citizen, but my ISP doesn't limit its services thus.)
Hurrah for educational spam (as otherwise citizens of USA may become too self-centered and forget how the representatives of their country humiliate the would be visitors)!
From someone who gets educationally English language spam all the time (of course, as spam is in different language than legitimate mail I get, it is easier to winnow out) - but thanks to the spam I HAVE learned to write in English, haven't I?
The first commercial spam ever was the green card lawyers, so this is nothing resembling a novelty.
Other than that, well, I have friends who won't visit me because they won't deal with US Customs and Immigration these days.
[I get real mail and spam in English; I might get real mail in Spanish or even French; I get spam in both of those, in something using the Cyrillic alphabet, and in Chinese characters. It's not terribly educational, really: subway/metro ads are more useful.]
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From someone who gets educationally English language spam all the time (of course, as spam is in different language than legitimate mail I get, it is easier to winnow out) - but thanks to the spam I HAVE learned to write in English, haven't I?
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Other than that, well, I have friends who won't visit me because they won't deal with US Customs and Immigration these days.
[I get real mail and spam in English; I might get real mail in Spanish or even French; I get spam in both of those, in something using the Cyrillic alphabet, and in Chinese characters. It's not terribly educational, really: subway/metro ads are more useful.]