Tuesday September 11, 2007

A sure sign that your country is overrun ...

... is when you receive a spam call for credit cards from a Chinese lady speaking with a Beijing accent. Yep that's just what happened *just now*. She asked if I understood Mandarin, I said yes, and then all the usual spam talk followed but in Mandarin.

I wonder how long it will be before the email spam comes in with Chinese characters embedded in images inside PDF attachments asking me to buy some China stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange which by the way seems to have been setting all-time highs all year this year ...

It's interesting to see how government policy, official or otherwise, is leading to evolving social dynamics here.

(2007-09-11 14:47:19 SGT) [Musings] Permalink Comments [1]

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