Can't Delete a Received Mail

I found that my Apple Mail received what appears to be a spam message from "XM Radio" from my gmail account. The title shows up in the mail list, but there is nothing there when I click on it. It won't let me delete it. I click delete, but it's still there. I right-click on it and the options are "delete again"...but that doesn't work either.
I'm fearing it's something like adware...
How can I rid myself of this without deleting my entire e-mail account from Mail?
Thanks,
Charley

Greetings,
There's no reason to be concerned about the content of that email message; even if it were adware, it can't install anything unless you provide your admin password. There are two possible options to get rid of it:
1. Select the message and Cut it (Command-X).
2. Quit Mail and go to ~/Library/Mail/your email account folder where this message was addressed, select the message and send it to the Trash. For the sake of this example, it's assumed this was your most recent message in that account. If that's not the case, check the date and time of the message in Mail before looking in that folder and find the message that matches that date and time.

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