On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 09:08:22PM +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > The idea of deliberately dumbing down language in spam is > preposterous. First of all I don't understand the purported logic of > it. More important, while English is an official language in > Nigeria, it is no one's mother tongue. It's learned, mostly in > school, to whatever proficiency the learner can achieve. The average > spammer has probably never stepped inside university. Even secondary > school certification is improbable. Add to that the 'dialectical' > difference between Nigerian and American English makes it unlikely > that the most fluent spammer could write something of undetectable > of origin. > > Let's get real.
The reality is, a spammer from poor country has access to a computer, internet and list of addresses. If he was wise enough to jump this many hops... he may also be a reasonably good chess player. Good enough to improve his game over time. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
