Good scam in the post!

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Got a nice interesting scam in the post.

It's some world Cup lottery for the previous owners.

Right name, right address.
Giveaways it's a scam
- paper is obviously an bubblejet printer that's a bit knackered
-no return address
-mobile number on one of the contacts.
-looks tacky.

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Part of the letter. Anyone fancy giving them a call? :D
 
I've never understood why they don't spend £30 to get a native to proof read it first, they would easily get that money back.
 
I've never seen one in the post before. It was quite exciting!

It's been a slow day
 
Puzzled said:
Congratulations OP, how much have you won? :D
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It's for the old owners.
900k.don't think I'll pass the letter on. Might claim it for myself! :D

I could ring up and say.. I have this letter. But it's not my name. I wonder if that will say i can't have it?
 
Longbow said:
I've never understood why they don't spend £30 to get a native to proof read it first, they would easily get that money back.
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I can't see this one, as my work blocks the image site. But in general the theory is that they want their spam to be slightly badly written, as it triages the possible responders. They only want the truly gullible to get back in touch with them - and apparently the people who don't spot that it's badly written are the people more likely to fall for the scam. The scammer doesn't want to be wasting his time working on people who will smell a rat and drop out.

Of course, this may be a case of someone starting from the premise and fitting the facts to it rather than actually knowing this is the cause.
 
peterwalkley said:
I always thought it was a filter. If you're too stupid not to see the obvious mistakes, you're more likely to not spot the scam when on the phone to them. Why waste time trying to scam someone who can see through you a mile off.
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This is a thing.
They do this on all scams apparently like this. Deliberately bad.
 
Longbow said:
I've never understood why they don't spend £30 to get a native to proof read it first, they would easily get that money back.
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Honestly, this ^1000000000. It makes no sense?
adolf hamster said:
it's because they want to discourage anyone savvy enough to spot the mistakes, they only want gullible folks applying to their scams in the first place.
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Ahhhhh, schooled.
 
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