On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, David Lodge wrote: > 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 :-) I have a better rule you can tell people.
Anything sent to you by email is a scam. If you see something that you think isn't a scam, that you need to follow up on, phone up the company and talk with them. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
