• TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    There’s a theory that the horrible grammar of the Nigerian email scams that gave them away helped them because it automatically helped filter out the people who could have given them the most trouble and would have been the easiest to scam. The same applies to here.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      LOL I knew that and they still use similar techniques in the Calcutta Call Centers today, but I never thought about it applied to really anything else, you’re probably right.