We get spam for German sites constantly at Thinklings, especially in Bird's Gatorade post for some reason. The text of the comments have always been in English, though. They usually say "Hi, great site" or something that looks innocent, but the urls have been for everything from clip-art to electronics, all in Germany.
Weird. I know Bill has pondered banning all computers from Germany from our site because of the problem. I don't know how such a thing would work or if we should risk offending a "real" German visitor to our site, but I told him to go for it!

Yeah, I've gotten those kinds of comments in the past, but these new ones are different. For one thing, they're email spam, not comment spam (thank goodness...much easier to delete). And they're all to one of my email addresses that I don't use and have never published on a website...making them doubly mysterious.

I've started getting them, too. In my case, they're being sent to random, non-existent e-mail addresses on a domain I administer (and get misdirected e-mail for). There are always 40, from a random address, to a single random address on the same domain.

I've had Google translate a couple of them, and they're stridently anti-foreigner screeds, many aimed at the Lebanese (several have been entitled "Libanesen in Berlin").

The latest for me came in around 8:20 tonight, and is a repeat: According to Google, something about a TV report that Lebanese and Kurdish Muslims in Berlin control the drug scene and "partly even the red light environment". It goes on to criticize (I think) the Greens for opposing stricter immigration and asylum law, including the colorfully translated "can one only with hopelessness and head vibrating react."

It further accuses the authorities of refusing to properly prosecute these crimes, because they might be accused of xenophobia and conservatism.

Frank, I think we're getting the same stuff. I had 160 of 'em overnight, which means I've gotten close to 500 since I posted this. So I took the extreme measure of just deleting the email account that they're coming to. It wasn't one I used for anything, but I was keeping it "in reserve" in case I wanted a new one. I hated to give in like this, but it really was the smartest way to deal with the problem.

I was going to suggest a paranoid explanation related to our shared interests in cycling, but that doesn't explain how they found my unpublished address to begin with (not to mention that it doesn't make any sense anyway...but that never stopped paranoia!)