Someone explained to me the other day that phishing/scam emails are intentionally written poorly to weed out the people who have enough brain cells to figure out at some point it's a scam.
That way they don't have to waste their time on people who are going to intentionally string them along or figure out it's a scam down the line and the people who do contact them are likely to be easy victims.
Made sense and I'd never thought of it that way.
Someone explained to me the other day that phishing/scam emails are intentionally written poorly to weed out the people who have enough brain cells to figure out at some point it's a scam.
That way they don't have to waste their time on people who are going to intentionally string them along or figure out it's a scam down the line and the people who do contact them are likely to be easy victims.
Made sense and I'd never thought of it that way.
Can’t wait for my SolaarPPaneells to arrrive!
Back door bandit they call him!Did that pidgin get through a loop hole or the back door.
No its a used tamponThe fact they’ve put a badly drawn mouse where the name should be is massive giveaway.
I won the Nigerian lottery, i've paid the deposit and the winnings will be with me anyday now.
No space between BT and internet rings alarm bells instantly.And another one. This looks a lot better.
Kinda want to see the gadgetmate, I have ad blocker server on my home network... it removes 90% of ads for the devices on my network
But it doesn't stop my brother from messaging a photo... not even a screenshot of the latest gadget that has been deemed "the tesla of.... ".. and saying that I should buy it..
My emails are @btinternet.com No capital BT and no gap.No space between BT and internet rings alarm bells instantly.
Is it even called BT internet, isn’t it BT broadband?
Never realised that before. Makes sense so that only people who don't notice the poor spelling/grammar get sucked in.Someone explained to me the other day that phishing/scam emails are intentionally written poorly to weed out the people who have enough brain cells to figure out at some point it's a scam.
That way they don't have to waste their time on people who are going to intentionally string them along or figure out it's a scam down the line and the people who do contact them are likely to be easy victims.
Made sense and I'd never thought of it that way.
Someone explained to me the other day that phishing/scam emails are intentionally written poorly to weed out the people who have enough brain cells to figure out at some point it's a scam.
That way they don't have to waste their time on people who are going to intentionally string them along or figure out it's a scam down the line and the people who do contact them are likely to be easy victims.
Made sense and I'd never thought of it that way.