Why do phishers deliberately use bad grammar or spelling?

Question

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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Answer 1

I heard somewhere (I can’t remember where) that if people are put off by the grammar than they don’t usually fall for the scam. The people who aren’t put off by the grammar are more likely the fall for the scam.

Why waste time on people who won’t fall for the scam when you could easily separate them from people who are more likely to fall for the scam.

So it’s a way of weeding out the “dummies” from the “smarties”