you say they misspell on purpose?
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Kitathalla@lemy.lol 3 weeks agoIt’s like the misspellings in the phishing emails: it ensures only people who will fall for the trick will respond. If some model messaged you out of the blue, you’re more likely to be suspicious or you feel that you’re super attractive and a model might actually reach out to you. Either way you’re more likely to not bite on the bait.
Dropper_Post@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Kitathalla@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
Yup. It’s why the scams by phone are so irritating to most of us, as another example. It’s just obvious and a time waster, but by making the scam easily visible to people who have the characteristics to not be vulnerable to them, it weeds out all the false positives the scammers would then have to deal with. They don’t want you, mr. bright eyed and bushy tailed, who is ready to catch them out only after hours of trying to get you to give them the code to your gift cards. That’s a lot of wasted time. They just want granny who will follow every direction.
Dropper_Post@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Oh. And I thought they were just a bunch of idiots to make it so obvious. I would love to read scamming for dummies book tbh if one exists
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
There was a scam on Discord that involved a fake Discord support person. I played along and was trying to get them to send me a malicious link or ask me to do something they shouldn’t so I could report them, but they never got around to it. I think they could tell I was wise to it.
OmegaMan@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not even talking about the beauty of the woman in the photo, I just mean it’s a blurry, poorly-lit photo that’s taken at a bad angle.
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
Maybe that’s to make it seem more “real”? I’m not sure.