I'm sure most of the scammers are actually stupid and the fact that their stupidity works for them in this case is just luck.
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The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)
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Re: The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)
#112This is not true. The scam are usually carried out by highly illiterate young boys who simply carry a file containing files labeled as first letter, second letter, third letter and so on. Then they go phishing with these.
I’ve seen this idea of they’re trying to filter out educated people so often that it makes me laugh. They aren’t , they’re simply dumb.
Re: The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)
#113This is bollocks. Speaking for Britain, and I think I can, there are hoards of would be victims to this kind of scam, particular of the current retirees generation, who are extremely vulnerable to having the wool pulled over their eyes about technical and internet security best practice matters, but for whom just so much as a poor turn of phrase or some unusually laid out punctuation is an absolute dead giveaway. If…
As they say: "never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence"
but in this case it is both.
Re: The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)
#114This is bollocks. Speaking for Britain, and I think I can, there are hoards of would be victims to this kind of scam, particular of the current retirees generation, who are extremely vulnerable to having the wool pulled over their eyes about technical and internet security best practice matters, but for whom just so much as a poor turn of phrase or some unusually laid out punctuation is an absolute dead giveaway. If…
100%. This article is a popular “Reddit” theory I’ve seen float around for a while now and it’s just not true! I’ve worked IT help desk before and have seen lots of phishing emails. If scammers tightened up their spelling and grammar skills a tiny bit they would catch many more victims effortlessly. The bar is insanely low. Most users could spot obvious phishing emails. But emails with even just a little more effort…
> Because most scammers are operating from the developing word and don’t have great English.
Wait until they discover ChatGPT, problem solved.
Re: The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)
#115I believe this, because I see it happen.
I get a text saying my package is delayed because of address error, AND I’m expecting a package AND I spent my morning cleaning up emails and putting out fires, AND the link opens to an exact copy of the USPS website…
BUT THEN, I notice the URL, BUT THEN I realize my package is coming from UPS, and not USPS, BUT THEN I realize this is like another scam _that I correctly identified_ previously.
If your scamming objective is to get high-level permission, authorization or otherwise to actually get PAID you need a very special someone.
What you don’t need is to waste resources and expose yourself to, now I say, intelligent people who will try to take you down. Even more, you want to avoid special someone with the resources and knowledge to actually scan you.
That’s not a ‘crazy theory’, it’s common sense in the age of advertising and marketing.
Or, if it’s too ‘complicated’, then let me ask you this, have you ever experienced a ‘street hustle’? In a bar trying to buy weed (pre-legal) or a person on the street confronts you for money.
Clever tricks working on personality types.
If you can convert your awareness of spelling errors into distrust so fast, we don’t want to talk to youz.
Re: The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)
#116This is bollocks. Speaking for Britain, and I think I can, there are hoards of would be victims to this kind of scam, particular of the current retirees generation, who are extremely vulnerable to having the wool pulled over their eyes about technical and internet security best practice matters, but for whom just so much as a poor turn of phrase or some unusually laid out punctuation is an absolute dead giveaway. If…
s/hoards/hordes/
:-)
Re: The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
> skip the smart people I am not sure smart people are scammed less often than the average person. Perhaps smart people get sucked in by different scams (like buying altcoins, or complex speculation)?
The John Podesta - Hillary phishing leak is out there on Wikileaks. This doesn't fit into any category I've seen: 0) Podesta got a letter-perfect message from "Google" asking him to change his password. 1) Podesta asked his IT guy if it was legit. 2) The IT guy said, "Yes, it is, but please set up 2FA." 3) Podesta clicked on it, ignoring the 2FA part (I think he ignored it).
Your reply hits a very high 68% fakeness score, according to https://huggingface.co/openai-detector/
I am guessing because you are cutting and pasting text?