Why do phishers deliberately use bad grammar or spelling?

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

I was just puzzling over this earlier. Mixed fonts, emojis, poor spelling. Like, how does *anyone* fall for these things?

Anonymous 0 Comments

They have more email addresses than they can use by several orders of magnitude. The goal is to narrow the scam down to stupid people, who are better targets.