I think most of them are largely automated at this point, with the human scammers overlooking lot's of fishing gear. Only writing in some situations themself.

I think most of them are largely automated at this point, with the human scammers overlooking lot's of fishing gear. Only writing in some situations themself. Telegram is full of them, often they are so blunt, that you wonder why so stupid. But I saw people react and fall for them in group chats (where other people could intervene), so apparently it works with private chat. And they use all kinds of pictures (not just asian) and try to adapt them to the local groups at times. But the general theme: sucessful and happy. Making the victim wannabe just like his new friend. Some people are really desperate for success, so they ignore all warnings and go for it. Seriously messing with them would require LLMs at this point, to automate it as well.