Spam Riddle?
I don't think I receive any different kind of spam than everybody else. The usual mix of offers for loans, Viagra, cheap software, casino bonuses, free TV and a year's supply of my favorite soda... at least that's what the subject lines say. I don't know what the email message itself contains, though, because I delete them right away.
Today, however, I opened one message accidentally instead of throwing it into the trash, and it was different in that it didn't try to sell me anything, but "entertain" me with some sort of a poem (a bad one at that). Maybe it's just a brain fart of some weirdo with a secret message. I can't figure it out, can you? Leave me a comment if you're able to decipher this "code".
Expect differ only kept food high. Home who like knew leave. End cut, power, main your, a. Had, began law yes state. Will, their, string, example, he, cover. House four pattern year blue. Head other, my. Protect, color cell fruit place both. Control, often miss gave size run. Few keep poem small ready had. Develop ride, warm. Sing order describe. What middle, war word. Sit numeral notice foot caught include eye. May story every third, act.

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Hi Andy,
Spammers put this stuff in to fool anti-spam tools. They generate unique gibberish for each message so that the filters have a harder time figuring out it is trash.
I should have added that this could be a spammer fishing for valid addresses, which could explain the lack of a sales pitch. If it gets through the filter and doesn't bounce, it is a valid address that is worth more. It might also include a web bug embedded in a graphic or invisible, that reports back to a server when you open the email, thereby IDing your email as a valid monitored account.
Andy, I think you got a message from Yoda. May the force be with you.
frank
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