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I wonder if it's kind of like "Nigerian prince" scammers who intentionally use bad English in their emails. The idea is the class of people who are impervious t
by VoodooJuJu 4y ago
I wonder if it's kind of like "Nigerian prince" scammers who intentionally use bad English in their emails. The idea is the class of people who are impervious to their scams are filtered out by these typos. By filtering people at the start of the scam "pipeline", it saves the scammer time.
Maybe the bad audio is here is serving as a sort of filter as well.
- prvit 4y agoThere's also the very real fact that most of those scammers can barely speak English, so they don't really have any other option. Even if they source a well written starting email, the facade will fall apart immediately once they have to write something by themselves.
- brazzy 4y agoWhere would be the pipeline, though? The pump&dumper doesn't spend time working on individual buyers here, do they?
- dkarl 4y agoPlus you're targeting people who are not polished and accomplished themselves with the pitch that they can make money at a rate that very few other people are achieving. If the video looks polished and professional it'll be easier for them to realize that they're the mark, they're the ones getting scammed. A poorly produced but heavily promoted video primes them to think that someone like them can make a huge score doing something that conventionally successful and savvy people are overlooking.
- xiphias2 4y agoIt’s like you’re describing my country’s prime minister (Viktor Orban) :(