On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:10:24 +0100, scott wrote:

>> I agree, but that's kinda the point.  They don't want to waste time
>> with people who know it's a scam.
> 
> Sorry I don't see what they gain or how it benefits them by putting
> mistakes in the email. If a group of people only know it's a scam
> because of mistakes written in the text of the email, then they'd be
> better off not putting in those mistakes and having those people click
> the link to get whatever malware/spyware.
> 
> Unless they are assuming that group of people are much more likely to be
> running a machine without security holes and the cost of the bandwidth
> to try and install the malware outweighs any benefit they might get.
> Seems unlikely as they are probably using some stolen web server to host
> the files.

Apparently it works, because they keep doing it, and they keep scoring.

I'll use myself as an example - if I got a scam e-mail from someone 
saying that I had won a lottery I hadn't entered in the first place, it 
wouldn't matter whether or not it used correct spelling or grammar, 
because I'd look at it and say "this is bullshit".  I'm probably less 
likely to decide to play with them and waste their time, too.

So why not make it really obvious to those with three brain cells to rub 
together that it's bullshit?  It'll go to the people who are going to 
click on anything and everything that comes into their inbox.

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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