Subj : Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week.
To : All
From : Petecresswell
Date : Sun Jan 01 2017 07:10 pm
From: "(PeteCresswell)" <
[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week.
Per James Wilkinson Sword:
>I've never seen one that even made me look twice. Spelling and grammatical er
rors everywhere, bad >alignment, wrong server used on all the links, blatantly
obvious.
One idea I have heard is that:
- Sending spam email is essentially cost-free, so you send
lots of the stuff.
- The overhead starts kicking in when the scam's followup involves
people contacting the target.
- They want to minimize the number of contacts with people above a
certain intelligence/sophistication level because they tend to
be unproductive ("False Positives") - yet eat up resources.
- Consequently they craft the email so that anybody with half a brain
will ignore it and the people left - who respond - are the easiest
of targets.
There is an interesting thread on this subject in Quora:
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-email-scams-written-in-broken-English
Microsoft has a white paper on this subject:
http://tinyurl.com/hem9h9j
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-nigerian-scammers-s
ay-they-are-from-nigeria/
I didn't download the entire PDF - just read the abstract... but it
seems to be consistent with other comments.
--
Pete Cresswell
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