From what I've read, they do that in an effort to evade keyword spam filters. They figure if the filter sees those words, it will guess that the message is legit email, and not dump it. Seems to have worked in your case.
Be careful! You could be opening an pif file attachment and don't know it. Panda AntiVirus identifies a "pif file attachment" as a Exploit/iFrame virus (http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/ficha.aspx?iddeteccion=24756).
These email messages are from people unknown to you, and who had no knowledge of sending an email to you, recently or otherwise. Apparently these .pif attachments are some kind of virus/worm attempting to secretly spread to others, and picking up email addresses to spread the virus/worm to others via the sender's email addressbook.
1) To posion bayesian filters , bayesian filters that do "train on everything" will put some legimate words into the spam database, reducing the efficency of the filter in the future.
2) To reduce the spaminess of the message.
3) To defeat hash based methods used by P2P antispam measures like Cloudnet.
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