Why do scams trojan horses ect always use ťĥéşé țýpěś õf şpéćîãľ ļéťťëřš doesn’t that just make the scam look obvious?
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Many scams want to obviously be scams because it filters out all but the dumbest and most gullible. That helps the scammer makes sure they don’t waste their time on someone they won’t be able to successfully scam.
If they utilize human element in some point of the scam they don’t want to deal with people who will notice it’s a scam.
They will use something so obvious that only the biggest morons will believe it. After filtering everyone else out they can now safely scam them without wasting their time.
TLDR.: They don’t want to deal with people who will not give them any money.
To get past spam filters. They probably randomise which accented letter they use in each email so it’s harder to block them.
Added bonus is that anyone who doesn’t notice the random accents will be more likely to believe a faked website etc, as they’re not very observant!
If it looks too real then they will get people to respond that once they hear more details will be able to immediately call bullshit. That wastes the scammers time as he could be going after someone more easily influenced. Anyone willing to read a letter in broken English and still think it’s legit is unlikely to question other discrepancies further down the line.
It’s to fool spam detection. Using regular text makes it easy to detect spam and scams by just blanket blocking certain phrases or words in scam text.
By using these special characters, you can’t automatically detect the content as easy.