Phish-like humor?

[muert0]

I recieved an email today from U.S.Bank. I don't have, haven't planned on having, or want a bank account. Especially from U.S.Bank that's kinda why I decided to look at the source. Anyway I looked at the source of the email and found this message:
HREF="http://www.usbank.com/cgi_w/cfm/confirmation/account_access/account_confirm.cfm"><map name="FPMap0"><area coords="0, 0, 633, 303" shape="rect" href="http://68.17.38.44:87/cfm/index.htm"></map><img SRC="http://webmail.central.cox.net/agent/mobmain/ana.GIF?msgvw=INBOXMN382DELIM2898MN382DELIM2" border="0" usemap="#FPMap0"></A></a></font></p><p><font color="#FFFFF9">San Diego Shania Twain Personal Homepages transit visa What's new? comes from The WWF Blackout rescue Drudge Report So-so pretty much. Just a moment! Tattoos Paula Jones </font></p><XXHTMLXX>

Just wondering if they were going for a shot of humour or if I'm just missing something.

[SirDice]

If you mean the bogus text at the end it's just there to fool a bayesian filter.

[pooh sun tzu]

from http://email.about.com/cs/bayesianfi...ian_filter.htm

bayesian filter:

Bayesian spam filters calculate the probability of a message being spam based on its contents. Unlike simple content-based filters, Bayesian spam filtering learns from spam and from good mail, resulting in a very robust, adapting and efficient anti-spam approach that, best of all, returns hardly any false positives.
see source article for more information