Turns out a translation is not necessary as their english is fine.

I was receiving as many as 100 submissions a day and had tried most of the easier suggested fixes and was gearing myself up to doing something a bit more time consuming when one of the spammers actually replied to an eMail I sent and explained about the http://submitta.com site. I joined the forum and found a thread that was relevant called "Is this true?". On this thread I explained that I ran a small locally based portal site and asked to be removed. I received an apology a couple of days later from Thiemo Nagel ( webmaster@submitta.com ) and not a single spammed submission has come my way in the last week.