Gibberish Spam Email - Why Do Spammers Send It?

We have all seen many spam emails that just makethe message actually includes the sales pitch to sell
no sense. They contain pure gibberish in the subjectpharmaceuticals, push the stock or even contain a
and body of the message, many times with no link,virus or worm. Many times the subject contains
no sales pitch and just seem totally useless. So whynonsense words or a recent news tag line and inside
do the Spammers send this junk?the message there will be a block of text that is
There is much more to it than you may think. On theentirely unrelated to the sales pitch. This text block
surface it just looks like they are trying to tick youappended to the message is sometimes a block of
off but under the hood it is much more cynical.text from a blog or website and sometimes is just
The main reason is the Spammers are pushing outrandom words stuffed together. Again, these
millions of gibberish messages is to confuse the antimethodsare designed to confuse the spam filters.
spam blocking filters. Spam filters that use statisticalSpammers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in
analysis or Bayesian antispam filter are prone to beingtheir attacks. You have probably hear these things
fooled by these as "good" messages and therefore100 times, but they are worth repeating... to protect
change their threshold for allowing such messages toyour inbox and your computer, make sureyou are
pass. This threshold or scoring method is what manyrunning a good anti spam system on your mail server
spam filters like SpamAssassin use to determine if aand/or your personal computer. Also, do not open a
message is spam or not. This is also known asmessage that looks like junk, do not use the preview
stuffing the statistics and are simply self serving topane in Outlook or other email clients, and do not
the Spammers.open attachments or clicks links in you email unless
Another method you will see used is very similar butyou are sure of their origin.