These days, spammers salt their messages with random assortments of text – “word salads” – to help them slip past spam filters. But this message, which arrived in my Inbox this morning, takes the practice to a new level that’s almost art. An excerpt:
When the skyscraper daydreams, a blood clot over the bartender sweeps the floor. Indeed, a polar bear around the squid cooks cheese grits for a diskette near the insurance agent. A righteous prime minister hesitates, and the salad dressing goes to sleep; however, some cab driver bestows great honor upon a short order cook inside the dust bunny.
I had an interesting revelation today as I watched the pre-workout instructions on my new Stott Pilates DVD. I like cereal with strawberry flakes in it. I don’t like exercise. Specifically abstract crap about sensing how muscles I don’t even know about are sliding around on my back. I don’t enjoy it, but I use my hamster wheel – correction Orbitrak elliptical machine – often in order to stay in shape. Partly out of vanity and partly out of an evolved addiction to the way exercise improves overall well-being and generally not feeling like garbage. Probably, I’m getting old. Definitely, I’m losing patience.
Sometimes a ski lodge living with an inferiority complex goes to sleep, but the crank case always gives lectures on morality to the cab driver! Furthermore, a dirt-encrusted inferiority complex beams with joy, and a wisely greasy garbage can learns a hard lesson from some customer from a ski lodge. Any graduated cylinder can lazily pee on a short order cook for a scythe, but it takes a real fraction to make love to a tomato over the cough syrup. The hockey player earns frequent flier miles, and another fundraiser from a chain saw plays pinochle with a cheese wheel.
A few of those lines could easily have been on Highway 61 Revisited.
No, I didn’t click the link in the message, so I have no idea what they were selling. I’m guessing it had something to do with exercise equipment.
Ed Bott 
I think it may be a variation on the script you can get here:
http://www.jsmadeeasy.com/javascripts/Messages/Random%20Sentences/index.htm
That’s almost poetry 🙂 .
Unfortunatly it is better than the novels I have read lately 😦
One that’s even more literary:
More Poetry from “Nugat Miser”
Hi,
I would love to get a contact email for your site, as I have some questions as well as content to offer.
Thank you,
Andre
I see these emails of word hash a lot, but there’s no link in the message. There is always an attachment and it’s always a .gif file. I just delete them.
I’ve always suspected that the attachment is not actually a .gif file although it shows to be.
Has anyone figured these out?
Yes, the attachment is a GIF file, typically. The actual text of the spam message is in that GIF, usually a pump-and-dump stock spam scam.