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It might be related to the same reason that Nigerian scam emails keep following the same easy-to-spot pattern. It is to the scammers advantage that savvy marks
by dzdt 7y ago
It might be related to the same reason that Nigerian scam emails keep following the same easy-to-spot pattern. It is to the scammers advantage that savvy marks immediately recognize the scam and don't participate. It saves the scammers time and money if they don't chase leads that won't pay off. Better to be immediately recognized as a scam by 98% of everyone, and focus your attention in the 2% who are most likely to pay off anyway!
- yebyen 7y agoI'd buy that argument. It jibes well with the research we did to come to this conclusion, when we started buying numbers in local area codes at the call center I used to work for... (excerpt from where I posted it elsewhere) > In hindsight it may have helped us work contact lists faster but it did nothing for our survey completion rates. People who were not likely to answer an out-of-state call were apparently also not likely to answer a survey, even once you got them on the phone. To us, that trade-off was still worth it, because we were usually contracted to try each contact on our list either 3-5 times or until we reached a person who (completed or) declined the survey or asked you to stop calling. > If you didn't want the calls, then we straight did not want you to continue getting them. Don't chase leads that won't pay off. Do as little extra work as you can, to increase the likelihood of learning when a lead is known bad, so you can stop wasting effort there.