Received this this morning......one of many a day which I bounce back to sender and block........but this one cracked me up...............the spelling and grammer is even more worse than my own which I use on here.........pray tell me.....no one falls for these emails do they and send off their details.......thing is I don't have a bank account with half of those that send the letters to me
tell me NO!!!!
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Oddly, these scams, and the classic Nigerian 419er, are MUCH more carefully crafted than you give them credit for. All the misspellings and poor English constructions are intentional.
These scams depend on a carefully-nurtured interplay between the scam artist and the gullibility of the recipient. It's not enough for the recipient to initially believe that they are going to get a fortune, or that their account needs the password submitted to an unknown address, or whatever. They must keep believing this throughout the whole process. Usually, they are milked for cash for some considerable time before the scam ends.
Though the initial email is a low cost to the attacker, all the follow-up work has quite a high cost in resources, and in exposure to detection. It is therefore well worth the attacker's time to set a filter at the beginning of the scam, such that only those who are extremely gullible, or whose greed causes them to suspend their normal critical facilities, are allowed through. Such people will provide much more money for the attacker's outlay than the strategy of letting everyone who is the least bit curious through into the second stage, where the attacker starts to expend effort.
The intentional misspellings and use of well-understood 'standard' scam scenarios constitute this filter. If someone responds to this kind of email, the attacker can be fairly sure that they do not know much about scams on the internet, do not check with their friends or look up known frauds - all features the attacker loves to see in victims.
I have a Game Theory paper somewhere on the subject - heavily mathematical, unfortunately, but if you can wade through the calculus you can understand just how advantageous it is to present an apparently slapdash scam compared to a carefully crafted one. If anyone is interested I will chase up a link...