On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:26:48 +0100, Thomas de Groot wrote:

> 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... :-)

I was quite surprised to read that myself, but it makes a certain amount 
of sense.

Jim

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besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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