> In phishing, the scammer knows that most people will ignore their mails. But, they are trying to get to the vulnerable people, the ones that will bite the bai

> In phishing, the scammer knows that most people will ignore their mails. But, they are trying to get to the vulnerable people, the ones that will bite the bait. "significant numbers" is difficult to evaluate. Maybe it is a very low percentage of the people that is targeted, but when the targeted are in the millions the victims are going to add up. Probably a stupid question, but is there any first hand evidence (like a testimony from a scammer) that this is the case? Feels like a completely unfalsifiable argument, since knowing whether the mistakes are deliberate because they make it easier to trick people, accidental but kept because of the same (the scammer doesn't know why it works) or actually accidental cause of the scammer doesn't know better seems like something that's almost impossible to prove.