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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If I want to scam playground kids by promising them pictures of Santa Clause, I only want kids who still believe in Santa Clause. So I make up a hokey story that people who don’t believe in Santa will immediately dismiss.
Freakenomics did a piece on this from the Nigerian Prince, and as others have eluded to it is deliberate. The big reason is their intended victims are self selecting.
If I send out a million emails, and get a 30% false positive ratio of people who answer the scam *and are not gullible enough to fall for it,* then it is a very costly and not profittable.
But if I send out a million emails and they are so outrageous that I get almost no false positives responses I only have to deal with those that are truly gullible it becomes much more profitable.
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