A while ago I was receiving an awful lot of spam written entirely in Chinese characters (actually I really can’t distinguish between Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters so I suppose they could have been in any or all of those languages.

At the time I tried to set up a spam filter based on language but, despite seeking help from various forums, I didn’t manage it.

However, this is possible and it seems to be fairly easy as described in this post.

As it happens however, by recording as spam all of the Chinese stuff, Gmail eventually learned to dump all of this stuff before it got to my inbox so I basically never get any these days.

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