Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 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.

But if the scam email is supposed to be an official email from a
company like Apple, deliberate mistakes seems like a strange choice.

On the other hand, many people fall for any scam, no matter how poorly
written, or what kind of email it might be. There's this story about
the admin of the computer system of a school who sent warning emails
to all the students. The email warned them to never answer emails
asking for login and password information, because the admins, or
anybody else, will never ask those via email (or any other non-secure
way). He put an example of such a scam message (clearly labeling it
as an example of what such a message would look like). He received
replies from many students with their login and password info, for
the simple reason that the example he put in the email asked for them,
regardless of the big warnings to never do that.

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