question on spam. (the email not the meat)

[3imo]

Does anyone know why spam emails have gibberish at the end? (see example below)


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[JetSwing]

it's a medthod used by terrorists to communicate

[arcsecond]

spam is terrifying so I guess spammers are terrorists.

The real answer is to try and fool email filtering programs that identify spam by the percentage of spam-related keywords to the overall length of the message. Adding all that gibberish at the bottom makes the filter think it's a real email.

Hope this helps.
-James

[Bluebellylint]

Gmail still knows those are spam though. 

[Alphamazing]

Gmail still knows those are spam those. 

So does Thunderbird.

[pandy]

Rats...I thought this was gonna be a recipe thread!