Despite my best efforts to keep my Inbox clean, annoying spam mail always seems to find its way through. For quite some time, I dilligently deleted these, having no use for them. Lately, though, it seems as though the spam is gaining more and more comedic value as mailers are forced to place more and more utterly random information in the mails to get them through email filters. I thought you might enjoy these, and so every week, I'll bring you some of the best selections. These are 100% real, and have not been edited at all by me. Enjoy!

This Week's Spam: The farside gives the Mirror

From: Vanessa_Perez147@hotmail.com
Date: Saturday, August 14, 2004 3:16 PM
To: none
Subject: The farside gives the Mirror
Attach: bMMVRZi.zip (124 KB)

5 point out tested psquiatricamente, to know if a person you this lying

=============== Mcaffe Virus Scan ===============

Result gives the Analysis: Message and Added free he gives virus

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Josh: This is one of my most favorite spams. It's addressed to no-one, sure, and it even includes a fake virus scan, complete with a horribly garbled results analysis. Those things are great. But what really clinches it for me is the insertion of a completely fake word -- or, at the very least, a non-English word -- right in the middle, right out of the blue. "5 point out tested psquiatricamente." That kills me. In its own way, it's outright genius. I want you all to reflect right now on how privileged we are to live in such a literary age.

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