Bill,

My inbox gets tons of this kind of crap. Most is filtered out as spam but the spammers always find a way around the filter with giberrish like this.

I think that e-mail like this one are phishing (looking for valid e-mail addresses) since they don't peddle anything discernable that you can buy. You would be surprised how many people reply to spam, singnalling that it is a valid e-mail address with a gullible idiot at the other end. These databases are worth a lot of money, just like telephone numbers of suckers are worth a ton to telemarketers and fraudsters.

I saw a documentary on spamming and you can forget about the pimply faced teenagers behind the spams. These days it is an organized business with adults running the show. Organized crime is also a big player in spamming. Especially the stock tips. They use it in what is called "pump and dump"--pump up a stock value through e-mail campagns and dump your shares for a huge profit.

A spammer can make $50,000 to $60,000 per month and the companies using them make about 10 times that. There is a very strong business case for spam so it is not going away unless someone comes up with an e-mail model that charges to send e-mail. Right now they can send 1,000,000 e-mails for free so if those e-mails result in $100 sales it is good. If they had to pay $0.001 per e-mail it would cost them $1000 and that would kill their business.

Don't bother trying to make sense of the stuff just accept spam as the high price of free e-mail.