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To be impressed by onanism?

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MothershipG · 07/08/2018 18:22

I get loads of spam to my work email account, mostly trying to sell me viagra and recently quite a lot in chinese, but today I received this...

I write you bесausе I put a mаlwarе оn the web раge with porn which yоu hаve visitеd.
My virus grabbed аll yоur persоnal info and turned on your сamеrа which cаptured thе prоcess of yоur onаnism.

Obviously the product of google translate or similar but after a quick canvas of my colleagues it turned out no one else actually knew what it meant. So I don't think this particular blackmail spam is going to be very lucrative, but it gave me a chuckle. GrinGrinGrin

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MothershipG · 07/08/2018 20:38

@drudgewithagrudge & @DilianaDilemma

This site thinks it's plausible...

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/05/seed/amp/

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Tanith · 07/08/2018 20:44

I believe it was Dorothy Parker who, when a rival tried the putdown "Age before beauty", retorted "Pearls before swine!" as she swept past Grin

MothershipG · 07/08/2018 21:21

It would be interesting to know why whatever translation website they used chose to pick such an old, somewhat obscure word.

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