Hiawatha Groom, I salute thee!

As I've mentioned before, spam can be entertaining sometimes. Today's message from Hiawatha Groom (to "Cherie Dillow") is one of the most interesting yet. Since I only read messages in plain text, all I saw was gibberish:

UlMeAmCeVaLeXaPrViCi
trribilelivinaopagal
amdiaenbrexumtraxeciarais
$3 $3 $1
75.33.21
http://www.potentiafoth.com Its good luck, good luck! Koroviev whispered to Margarita. Look, Woland inquired of the teeth-chattering Styopa. `And yet theres

( unsolicited email from groomxqb@waterski.fsp.fi (10/15/05). )

My curiosity piqued , I actually dared viewed the HTML version and saw this Spam email in HTML view showing list of drug names and prices instead:

Now I was really curious what was going on, so I checked the source code to find a pretty clever use of the CSS float attribute:

tr ri bi le li vi na op ag al am dia en brex um tra x ecia ra is $3 $3 $1 .75 .33 .21

( unsolicited email from groomxqb@waterski.fsp.fi (10/15/05). )

I must also tip my hat to the decision to use Courier font for the message, so it looks like plain text to the unsuspecting reader. I am a little disappointed, given that Hiawatha has obviously gone to the trouble of learning CSS, that he resorted to a FONT tag, but really that is a small blemish on this otherwise masterful piece of spam. Bravo!