And they keep on trying...

[MoonCat]

Here is an excerpt from an email I received purporting to be from PayPal:

Thanks for joining PayPal.

Was discovered that the account did not pass on the stage of the update has been sent following message from paypal customers request re-update your account information before it is suspended. Updated for 10 days before the passage of time to send the message

Ignoring the fact that I signed up for PayPal years ago....This looks like someone just ran their scam attempt through Google Translate or something...

[Seanette]

Was that word salad supposed to be in English? (giggle)

Truly pathetic.

[darkroxas45]

All your money are belong to you. *Laughs weakly a his crude attempt at humor the walks away*

[BPFH]

That was almost as intelligible as the hashbuster text some spammers will append to their missives...

[Tama]

....hashbuster...?

[wolfie]

I believe it's a reference to a block of irrelevant (to the product being advertised) text so that the mail will return a different hash from the "bare" one, causing it to not be detected as "Hormel's tinned pork product". I've encountered a few - in some cases, when I was searching for obscure technical information, the first screen of "hits" I found were where a paragraph related to what I was looking for (but without the full details) was used as a hashbuster.

[Tama]

This explains why random spam gets in my inbox...