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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“Only the dumbest people fall for scams.”
“You have to be really stupid to fall for that.”
“What desperate idiot would fall for that?!”
All ignorantly accurate statements I have heard simultaneously question and describe why the ads are so clearly bad. When you are going for easy money, why make it hard on yourself? Weed out anyone with half a clue as your introduction, and all you are left with are… less well read people. It sucks, but this is part of why reading comprehension does matter.
Now, there are scams that put more effort out. Barely though. It’s more like they invest in better forgeries- websites that look accurate, emails that seem accurate or phone calls with local numbers come to mind. But there is always something *fishy* if you take the time to analyze *a website you visit so regularly you absent mindedly sign in multiple times daily*. Who does that? Slightly more well read people, with time, but not most of us.
Eventually, a real exchange of your information has to happen that draws red flags for most people, even in the well designed scams.
Hackers are not the same as scammers. Scammers attempt to get YOU to do something on their behalf. Hackers generally are not involving you outside of gaining access.
Hackers misspell words because they are attempting to guess passwords for average people who DO misspell words. Like a password FarmBoi vs FarmBoy or BoneAppleTea.
Or, as others have pointed out, when bypassing security features that typically send certain words to spam or that security features flag. They might use zero instead of “O”
Hackers *can* pose as scammers; scammers are generally not hackers. Hacking takes significant information retention and regurgitation. Scam centers are entry level jobs often posted as legit jobs working from real companies backrooms and individual scammers tend to use the same customer service error/refund/theft model. We could dive into pyramid schemes, designed to fail products and other deeper scams posing openly as businesses, but I think this has gone on long enough.
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