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Re: Fwd: Security: Your Online Banking Account is Blocked
From: "David Lodge" <dave () cirt net>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:29:29 -0000
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:43:40 -0000, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> 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 :-)
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