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My email domain is in Moldova’s TLD, I set it up back when I was practicing medicine to be “like House, M.D. but kuznetsov.md”. These days, Moldovan spammers are unusually active. It took me a while to figure out, why: they have elections ongoing.

Today I noticed several messages in Romanian in my spam folder and they didn’t contain the usual scam links to suspicious pages. I got curious and translated a couple of these.

One said the authors knew not only my email address but also my phone number, my home address, what my relatives are allergic to, etc., so if I don’t vote for the acting President as the responsible citizen should, I should expect all kinds of troubles in my life. The other one promised ample money for a selfie with a ballot that had the right name checked.

Do they really have fair elections there?!