So this is new, at least for me — the latest batch of a few thousand spam comments (adding to the pile of 5,095,703 caught so far) pretends to come from people using negatively-evaluated pseudonyms in Spanish, like caca, ladrones, or indecentes:
Or mierda, corruptos, etc.:
Does this refer to a Hispanic inversion-of-lexical-values subculture, like English sick for "really good"? Or is some underpaid nickname-inventor on the spam-factory assembly line engaging in a little cross-linguistic sabotage? Inquiring minds want to know.
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