Why do phishers deliberately use bad grammar or spelling?

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Doing data protection training and it says ‘Many hackers misspell words… on purpose.’
I’m glad this makes scams easier to spot but it just doesn’t seem to make sense to me as a useful tactic at all.

Edit: typo correction- hackers not jackets!

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Anonymous 0 Comments

The typos were probably initially meant to allow them to bypass spam filter that used word scans.

Also a lot of spam is from non English speaking countries. Have you ever seen the hot mess that is google translate?

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