Am Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:37:42 -0400 schrieb Jim Henderson:

> Actually, there was a really interesting article about this a little bit
> ago....
> 
> https://www.quora.com/Why-are-email-scams-written-in-broken-English
> explains it a bit, but isn't the article I saw a few weeks ago about
> this.
> 
> The article I saw explained that this type of poorly written e-mail
> filters out people who are not going to fall for the scam, meaning that
> of those who actually read it, they get about a 70% "conversion rate"
> (ie,
> 70% of the people who don't immediately dismiss it as a scam end up at
> least starting the process).  Doesn't take many for it to be successful.
> 
> Jim

That is indeed interesting. It makes it in a crude way efficient 
concerning the wasted time overall.

Florian

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