What is the point of this spam email?

BossArky

I have been receiving spam emails of this sort for the past months. They don't advertise or ask me to sign up to anything, so what is the point?

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From: Sherman Hood [iibbasophilic@optusnet.com.au]
To: BossArky


Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. Chance favors the prepared mind. A penny saved is a penny earned. Ben Franklin Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
If it is broken, fix it... with duct tape. Alternative: Who shall guard the guards themselves? To kill two birds with one stone.
Learn to walk before you run. Clothes make(th) the man. You can't judge a book by its cover. There's no accounting for taste.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. There's always a deep breath before a plunge. Possible Interpretation: If something is good for one person, it is good for everyone; Nothing to be feared in life ,but understood. There's no place like home. He that knows does not speak, He that speaks does not know.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. Paddle your own ... One fly makes a summer. Mark Twain Advice when most needed is least heeded.
Knowledge is power. All things come to he who waits. His bark is worse than his bite. Brain is better than brawn. And drinking largely sobers us again

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loyatemu

its thought they're being sent out to confuse spam filters and screw with their bayesian recognition techniques.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning

Red Alert

very often they include an image. the text is just there to confuse the spam filter, the image contains the ad for viagra or whatever.

Millionaire

yeah, I get a few of those weird spams too, every 24 hours.

I would not mind if it was someone trying to sell Viagara or something! LOL!

I was thinking, is this is nut job in a mad house sending these to me....i was getting parnoid!

Pablo

True, I've had a noticable increase in my spam mail in the last 2 weeks. Thankfully 95% of it gets caught ! And false positives are a rarity!

me = happy camper !

BossArky

Ok - makes sense. I do get a few to my non work email addresses with text plus images.

I read the above email three times this morning, some nice quotes in there - thanks Mr.Spam Merchant.