Death Threat?

[midjd]

Nov 28, 2017 18:02:02 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Nov 28, 2017 17:29:51 GMT -5 midjd said:

Easier to find the marks that way. People with all their mental faculties are going to delete anything written in that style, but their target audiences overlook the typos.

The last thing you want is for your scam to attract a bunch of cynical YMers. [img src="http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/wink.png" alt="" src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png" class="smile"]

I'll bet you a thousand snow leopard pelts it's as simple as the scammers being too lazy, too untrustworthy of confiding in persons outside of their close-knit circle, or too ignorant to realize the person(s) proofing their messages are doing a lousy job of it.

It's not just the language, either. The scam e-mail's I've received contain laughably bad factual errors and ignorance of some of the most basic rules on how the world works. I'll bet you two thousand snow leopard pelts this isn't intentional either. These people aren't educated professionals choosing fraud rather than a real career for the the thrill of it. They're ignorant, semi-educated (albeit not stupid) losers making big money the only way they know how, and their ignorance shines through in anything they write.

I'm not saying the errors are ALL intentional, but they serve a defined purpose. I've sat through enough CFPB continuing-ed courses to know these scammers have a script and stick to it. This script effectively weeds out 99% of the audience but they only want the 1% who won't give them push-back on their highly implausible story.

Or maybe all the attorneys and policy experts who ferret out and (try to) prosecute this fraud are wrong But I doubt it.

[saveinla]

It's Google Translate's fault - they don't have enough intelligence yet - machine translators have not evolved to the point to mimic people.

Wait until they make it better and you will have better worded messages from our scammers.

[Virgil Showlion]

Nov 28, 2017 18:15:18 GMT -5 midjd said:

Nov 28, 2017 18:02:02 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

I'll bet you a thousand snow leopard pelts it's as simple as the scammers being too lazy, too untrustworthy of confiding in persons outside of their close-knit circle, or too ignorant to realize the person(s) proofing their messages are doing a lousy job of it.

It's not just the language, either. The scam e-mail's I've received contain laughably bad factual errors and ignorance of some of the most basic rules on how the world works. I'll bet you two thousand snow leopard pelts this isn't intentional either. These people aren't educated professionals choosing fraud rather than a real career for the the thrill of it. They're ignorant, semi-educated (albeit not stupid) losers making big money the only way they know how, and their ignorance shines through in anything they write.

I'm not saying the errors are ALL intentional, but they serve a defined purpose. I've sat through enough CFPB continuing-ed courses to know these scammers have a script and stick to it. This script effectively weeds out 99% of the audience but they only want the 1% who won't give them push-back on their highly implausible story.

Or maybe all the attorneys and policy experts who ferret out and (try to) prosecute this fraud are wrong [img src="http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/smile.gif" src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png" class="smile" alt=""] But I doubt it.

I believe they stick to a script and that they seek out people who won't push back or question their story, but I fail to see how diminishing the realism of their story accomplishes either goal.

It stands to reason that the more believable the material is, the more people will fall for it. And if a prospective mark starts asking too many questions, there's nothing stopping the scammers from just walking away.

If you've heard from fraud experts that scammers deliberately sabotage their e-mails in order to exclusively target the exceptionally ignorant, I suppose I can believe it. Otherwise, it seems far too counterintuitive.

[ktunes]

open your gun safe and take a picture, then text him back and tell him to "Bring it on"...