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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Software that filters incoming e-mail to look for signs of scams looks for words and phrases commonly used in scams. In order to get past the filters, scammers may misspell such words, or may spell them with some foreign-alphabet characters that resemble the usual letters. It becomes hard to design filters that handle such substitutions.
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