Spammers are using Google Translate to disguise links to dodgy websites.
All sorts of internet pond life, particularly purveyors of blue pills purporting to pump blokes’ performance between the sheets, are relying on the reputation of Google’s language translation service to smuggle web links through mail filters. Security researchers at Barracuda Networks, which collects and analyses samples of spam, clocked messages attempting to defeat reputation filters using this tactic.
When a user clicks on a link in the junk mail, the web browser and Google are instructed to follow a chain of pages until the dodgy website is reached.
via Merde! Dummkopf! Google Translate used as spam cloak • The Register.