[thelist] Email sculduggery - if that's how you spell it

[Chris Hayes]

Ya know those email messages which point out all the inadequacies you never
had and how cheap it would be to rectify them (spam).

I received one the other day which seemed to go to great lengths to conceal
the underlying code... it:

1 Had Frontpage generated HTML content
2 Launched (via JS) a new window which it populated with more of the above
3 Contained the most ridiculous domains in the URL (eg:

    00000000000000000000000 0000000000365.000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000365.000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00364.00000000000000000000000000000000325&@

    plus some more and a parameter:

    ?redirect=http://326841526/index.html  .... and more gibberish
)

4 URL encoded the entire HTML content so that it required some more JS to
decode-write it
5 Appeared to attempt to encrypt it using some pathetic one-to-one character
encryption
6 Failed
7 Accessed the internet for some arbitrarily pointless reason (marketing?)
8 Succeeded in p**sing me right off every time I accessed my spam folder
(yes I do keep one)

My question is simple.  I'm not asking "Who?", nor "Where?"... neither am I
demanding "How?" or "What?"... I simply want to know...

WHY?

Especially why the nonsense domains/urls.