On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:43:40 -0000, Brian Loe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyone tricked?
What language is this anyway?!
A while back I went through a period of correcting phishers and 419ers
spelling and grammar and then sending it back with a mark out of 10. None
of the them ever got more than around 5... Then I got bored with it.
It's one of the words of advice I give to people as a sanity check for
whether something is a scam: look at the quality of the English; if they
use bad English or American English (when a UK company) then it's
generally a scam and should be consigned to /dev/null. As most UK
companies subscribe to the plain English campaign and pay people to
quadruple check every message that goes out.
Of course, when the scammers get somebody with a better knowledge of
English this detection tactic will not work anymore :-)
dave
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