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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It’s a filter, same as the Nigerian prince scam if you don’t question it the first time odds are you won’t question things later on so you are easier to scam
Why can’t I fact check this comment?
Most are non-native English speakers. Once I responded to one offering to clean up his grammar and send it back for $100, but he never responded.
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.
They don’t deliberately do it, they don’t have complete knowledge they only known how to scam.
I don’t believe the misspellings are deliberate. I’ve always assumed it’s because the scams occur from countries where English isn’t their first language.
People who notice spelling mistakes *and* understand that legitimate companies won’t send out official communication using those mistakes probably aren’t going to be convinced anyway. But people who lack both of those qualities are often easier to manipulate, even if they go into the interaction skeptical.
Sorry, IT security researcher. That concept is a myth, they want to craft emails and messages to look like the real source they are spoofing. They often run something through Google Translate and will think that it is errant and “correct” what the translation renders. This is why TOEIC tests give students very close to correct English and ask them to correct it. If it is close to perfect it throws off the ESL reader to want to make changes that make sense via their language base.
It’s an attempt to trick spam filters. When you write PRON hier instead of p*rn then maybe it woun’t be recognized.
it’s quantity not quality – if you tap the link you’re dumb enough to fall for it, most people figure it out eventually, so it’s better to get those out quicker. oftentimes they’re based in a country where english is the second language, so why waste efforts ($$) on fixing typos
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