On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:09:25 +0000, Doctor John wrote:

> On 09/02/15 15:21, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 9-2-2015 16:15, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>> I find the most hilarious the fact that a phishing mail warns for
>>> phishing of its own phishing. If on purpose, then those guys have a
>>> (particular) sense of humour, if not, they are plain stupid. :-)
>>>
>> ....with a special note to Clipka's explanation as a third option ;-)
>> 
>> 
> I seem to remember reading, possibly here, that misspelt or
> syntactically incorrect phishing emails do indeed have a higher success
> rate than those with flawless $INSERT_LANGUAGE_OF_CHOICE. There was a
> link to an academic paper but right now I can't find it.

Yeah, the supposed purpose of the poor grammar/spelling is to weed out 
people who aren't going to fall for it anyways.

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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