Consumer in Columbia writes:

I get tons of e-mails that don't make any sense whatsoever. They just babble and literally don't make any sense. Any idea what this is?

There could be one of two things happening. Sometimes spammers will include gibberish consisting of everyday words to try to fool spam filters into thinking it's legitimate e-mail. For example, you might see spam selling a prescription drug, then in paragraph number two it says "Toothpaste exciting calculator enjoy never sedan necktie sauerkraut perspicacity." That part is trying to fool the filter.

The other possibility: what you think is nonsense actually has HTML code in it that talks back to the spammer, telling him he has penetrated the spam filter, reached a real person, and that person has read the email or opened the attachment.

If you want to know way more about this than I can understand, here's an article.