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> When I read the thread now, it's obviously full of red flags. I was successfully manipulated, and whilst I'm certainly not as clever as all the people pointin
by dangerface 7y ago
> When I read the thread now, it's obviously full of red flags. I was successfully manipulated, and whilst I'm certainly not as clever as all the people pointing out they would have caught this from sentence one, I believe I'm also not the lowest hanging fruit in terms of a target :-)
I think it's soo easy to spot scams because 99% of them are so shit, poor spelling, talking nonsense.
If scammers simply spell checked their scams I would fall for them all.
- jowsie 7y agoNot sure if still the case, but this used to be done specifically to weed out people who weren't quite gullible enough. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/9346371/Nigerian-scam-emails-deliberately-implausible.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/9346371/Nig...