In ancient days of long ago, spam filters looked for specific words. Most of them still do. As SPAMMERS became more sophisticated, the filters did too, and began looking for "consistent word groupings," without checking what the actual words were; and early versions could be fooled by random characters in word-sized groups, if they didn't contain specific words on an "exclude" list.

Current spam and phishing filters spell check before looking for the words in the list, and commonly reject "nonsense words." They may also use the "quick search" method of collapsing all the words, usually just by removing the vowels, and checking to see if anything then matches a "collapsed word" on the exclude list.

Another ploy used by Spammers has been to in ser t rand om spa ces in wor ds l ike Vi agr a and Nig e ria to try to "break past" the filters.

If it's not clearly written, with the commonly acceptable grammar and punctuation of the language of your choice, you will NOT BE HARMED by considering it SPAM and immediately hitting the DELETE button. You QUITE PROBABLY WILL BE HARMED by opening the mail or looking at any enclosures.

(Or, as noted, if you Google for the text indicated, Google may require you to log out (delete your cookie) and reconnect before you can Google again.)

DELETE!!!!

Don't even think about being curious. There are far too many things worth learning about to waste time on OBVIOUS SPAM (or even on something that just looks like obvious SPAM).

John