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Spammers are getting more and more sophisticated. The latest trick is to include a stream of random words to help raise the "noise" level for the e-mail Spam filter (most are based on the Bayes Filter). Once the noise level is raised, the spam is accepted as "good" e-mail.

Here's a Network & Security thread that shows how it's done.