annielaurie's Journal: Help, help!

I believe this wins the prize for impenetrable spam. This guy has so cleverly concealed his message that I actually can't tell what it is.

Maybe the laws of natural selection will apply and spam will deteriorate to the point where it becomes extinct. Consider the poor sabretooth tiger, whose front tusks became so long and sharp he either couldn't eat or actually had his mouth torn up. We can always hope. Herewith, the spam:

Fa#ct of the day: Did you know?

Mosirt deale"rsI8hFip^s purcha\se tfheir extendeXyd warzpranties from
third party sources.

By3 gVoV1ing D5directlepy zrto one of thIose sour_c3Ces, yzZou can savve
yourself hutndreds of dollars f{or theUS same of even bettgner
extended wOarranSpty co/vekrage.

CaOgr troubles never happen when it's convenient for yo%u!

Pcrot$ect your vewhicle and yourself from la]r`ge, budget
bushjtming repair bisllSs wi9th a qua]lity Extended W~aRzrr7Eanty
for yo[ur Car, Truc=k, Van oqr SU.V.

garbage

[XO]

reminds me of the 80's, with line noise, on your modem.

somewhat fearsome. sadly depressing.

full headers, full multipart?

[frankie]

There was probably more information in a different part of the message. I often get complete gibberish in the text/plain but there's all sorts of links in the text/html

Re:full headers, full multipart?

[annielaurie]

I've just switched to MacMail, which means that aside from IE, which I keep to test web pages, my Mac is now pure of Microsoft products. There may well have been something I didn't see.

I think, though, that yesterday I had the creepiest spam-related experience of my life. I'm about to record it in my journal for posterity and possible explanations.

Anne