I have been getting more spam from China recently that has snuck under Google's spam filter. Yesterday I got the following:


我是中国普通的中国人，我知道宋要武(也就是那个宋彬彬）是不是她还在美国呢？      不过我想她可能还在吧。我想也许她不能也不可能回来。         卞仲耘的事可能她忘记的。
 我希望你能交流


No, I have no idea what the hell it says but I thought, "Another goddamn discount cigarette offer."  Something, a lull in the day or whatever, made me Google Translate it rather than do a no-look pass to trash:


"I am a Chinese general of the Chinese people, I know to Wu Song (that is, the Song Binbin) is not she still in the United States? But I think she might still be right. I thought maybe she could not and can not come back. Bian could she forget something.
I hope you can exchange."


"HOLY SHIT!  Song...Bian...and from a Chinese GENERAL!"


I sent the email to a Chinese-American friend and asked her to verify.  This is the translation of the translation:


"I am an ordinary Chinese. I would like to know if Song Binbin is still in the States. I think that she may be still in the States. Perhaps, she cannot or is not allowed to return to China. Probably, she has forgotten Bian Zhongyun.

I hope that I can exchange ideas with you."


In other words, "general"=ordinary, not "GENERAL."


Swine Google Translate.


And the writer didn't leave a name, so it may still be spam. 


Happy New Year world, and especially to friends...and enemies. It is a wonderful world.
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Miss you, Iz.