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I know more than one English teacher that absolutely hate the fact that the current "Nigerian" e-mails in order to skip past spam detectors have better grammar
by protomyth 10y ago
I know more than one English teacher that absolutely hate the fact that the current "Nigerian" e-mails in order to skip past spam detectors have better grammar than some of their students.
- abraae 10y agoIts fairly well documented that "Nigerian scammer emails" deliberately use poor grammar so as to filter out people in the smarter end of the target pool, since those people will never fall for their story and will just waste the scammer's time. Which makes your English teacher's chagrin even more justified.
- protomyth 10y agoI don't know, some of the stuff we are getting (that is taking a massive pain in the butt time to filter) is written well. I get the feeling that bad grammar was true early on, but some of this stuff is damn near art.
- abraae 10y agoMaybe the scammers are using their ill gotten gains on education. Not sure if that's a good outcome or a bad one.