Really Weird E-mail?

I know you're not supposed to open e-mail from strangers, especially when it's in your spam box but it didn't look like it was from a stranger...in fact, the name in the address kinda matches the name of someone I know.





Anyway, I figured it would be safe since AOL doesn't load images or links until you click a button and I opened and got a bunch of weird randomness like this:


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striven front effect -- Mr Dollard, fail they murmured low."





It goes on like that for a while...





Anyway, is this spam or just plain weirdness? I'm intrigued...

Really Weird E-mail?
Messages like that are pretty common. What it means is that a spam operation is testing their list of addresses by sending out garbage e-mails to everything on their list. Then they'll note which ones bounced, eliminate them from their list, and keep going until they're left with a mostly-good list of addresses that didn't result in a bounce notice when they sent the test out.





Finally, after they've got the list trimmed down, they'll send their sales pitch out.
Reply:IT IS BOTH THIS IS VERY SUSPICIOUS AND YOU SHOULD FILE A POLICE REPORT OR TELL THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE SOMETHING LIKE THAT CAN BE VERY HELPFUL IN A CRIME THAT MIGHT COME UP ANY WAYS IT IS PROBABLY SPAM AND WEIRD
Reply:congratulations, you now have some spyware, run spybot and adaware and dont open any more of those type emails
Reply:its just a weird email
Reply:it is spam.. I get those, and you were right, it came from a name very similar to that of what was in my address book in yahoo. just mark as spam.

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