They don't seem like they're very good at it, but I guess if you snare even 1%...
This is one I got not too long ago:
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They are deliberately bad and obvious because they want stupid people. If those messages were more realistic, they would have had a lot more "hits" that would just waste their time because ultimately, they wouldnt be able to scam them as easily.
Never even occurred to me but it seems obvious now thst you’ve mentioned it.
Maybe. It's a common refrain from email spam that all of the misspellings and grammatical errors are intentional choices. There is no way to confirm or disprove it either way.
However, in the "unlikely" column, the spam industry works on a "SaaS" model where the people that send out millions of spam emails are paid to do so by customers. They compromise email severs and end user devices to build up a fleet of machines to send out the messages.
The spammers themselves don't care if the customers content succeeds or not, so there is no incentive to help them write good spam. They just pull in the next sucker who thinks sending out 10 million badly worded emails will work to make them money.
Yeah, I wasn’t going to go and call that case-closed; industry tactics exposed, story at 11:00. It’s a theory and intentional or not (misspellings) I think there’s a definite possibility it’s working as described in some cases.
I like the SaaS theory too, ransomware clearly operates using exactly that model… unfortunately there’s been a few investigations and a lot of it is just the intersection of actual and economic slavery. I suspect there’s some of what you propose as well, why not, right? If we can dream it up somewhere somebody’s probably trying it. But I’d also wager that once you achieve any real proficiency at this kind of low level scam, there’s opportunity in organized computer crime, spearfishing and pretexting scams, operations with more sophisticated planning.
I don’t think those are the ones you need to worry about—or, should I say, that are the more professional ones. The real ones are the ones who act like people, not businesses. You get random messages that say “hey! I lost my work phone and transferred the numbers, but I don’t remember whose number this is.” Or find a way to send a picture of a pretty girl and say, “remember me? We exchanged numbers a while ago!” Or some shit like that. I think those are the more effective and dangerous ones. I get a lot of those.
I get my share of those too. Too bad for them I don't know anyone.
(White space included to show why they contacted the wrong guy.)
I know a kid that fell for the scam recording contact twice, second time cost him a grand, dunno what the first time cost. I warned him but the desperation is real.
he trusted them out of desperation for money
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