Worst Spam Email Ever (in Off-topic)

I fired up Gmail a few minutes ago, expecting the usual smattering of Viagra adverts, pyramid schemes and mail from some random woman who thinks I'm her relative. That's when I happened to see this little gem:

Subject: XP PRO, OFFICE 2003 AND ALL AT ONLY $12-60 EACH, WE GIVE U LICENSE pride

Now, that looks like a new scam to me. I'm fairly well-acquainted with other internet scams, so I figured I might as well read through this one before it hits the news. From the body of the email:

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find why why bought anything motor. money corner thats. bought music reply leader being again,
being filled side. sandwich raise teach supposed to commit few? carefully music you rich.
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miserable leader edge love.

Now, my first reaction was to hurriedly look away, much as an epileptic person would shield his eyes from a strobe light. Bob only knows the damage this sort of grammatical train wreck might inflict upon my fragile psyche.

As the pain subsided, however, I had to face one simple fact: someone, somewhere, actually sat down and wrote that. They took the time and effort to produce that masterpiece and sent it to me by email, all under the guise of selling sketchy software licenses. There's not even a link to any website, so if the aim was to seriously sell me something, I seem to have discovered some heretofore unknown level of incompetance.

I'm really at a loss for what to do. Should I cue the 2001: A Space Odyssey theme, run around like an ape and stare at the screen as if it's some black monolith, just waiting to inspire the evolution of our species? I just don't know.

Oh, please do! Record the whole performance, put it on the internet and in no time at all PK will have "discovered" it and shared his find. :)

*pelts Bast with 3 day old fish sandwiches* :P

Maybe someone just wanted to say hello to you?

Or, instead of just 'hello', someone wanted to say 'Happy Valentine's Day!' in a very special way! Oh, the romance...

I've gotten emails like that, the "random" words are there to fool anti-spam filters (which never works). There really is an ad for ripped-off software buried in that email; you probably have to view it as HTML instead of text (or vice versa). Sometimes they go so far as to put a table in the HTML section that assembles the ad from fragments of words, to further fool email filters.

It's still spam, and you should still delete it =)

I don't get much spam, and Gmail does a decent job automatically filtering it into the SPAM folder. Darn nifty.

it was a valentine's day coded secret admirer letter. Can you unlock the secret?

I already have a huge number of those in my MSN spam box, I even tried rearranging and decoding it without success.
No secret service spies on your trail IA :)