On 9-2-2015 22:38, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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 am impressed. There is /real/ psychology put into phishing... :-)

-- 
Thomas

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