Nonsense in e-mails.

[Lucy Thomas]

Occasionally, I receive junk e-mails that finish with a paragraph of nonsensical text. An actual example from today is shown below. Can someone tell me why this text is included and what it is supposed to mean.

"Lincoln's gentleness of argument which overcame wrapped around
in a mantle of satin. And he took 'mrs ferrars was a very
wealthy woman,' said poirot and adding that he had gone
into such a rage, and at extraordinary moments. She doctored
her me know in case my husband made any attempt to said
edmund indignantly. I'm writing a book. I chary of opposing
her, more especially those who i hope he knows what hes
getting himself into. Her closely. She stared at yew berries?
are they."

[Ethel]

To avoid spam filters.

And to avoid getting labelled as spam by the content checkers like Spamassassin, the messages are filled with nonsense text snippets avoiding the words which Spamassassin looks out for, with the spam message included as an image which the spam filtering software cannot read.

http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/services/units/i s/services/Help/faqs/IT/spam