Dec 05, 2022 23:00:00

Scammers screen out scammers by intentionally putting typos in spam emails

Some of the spam emails contain meaningless content such as ``It's

been a year since my husband was killed by a giant anteater. '' It is said that there is an intention to find Similarly, experts pointed out that overseas spam emails deliberately include spelling and grammatical errors to screen out only those who do not read the text properly.

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Bethany McNally, who belongs to the IT service team at St. thing. However, McNally says the spelling and grammatical errors in the spam emails are intentional, not mistakes.

In the first place, people who take the time to read the text carefully and who notice small suspicious points can easily realize that it is a scam even if they are lured by a phishing email. Therefore, it is not a good customer for scammers. Therefore, scammers are targeting people who read ridiculous content emails and do not realize that it is strange in order to find the most gullible people.

This point is also evident in the (PDF file) study on 'Nigerian Scammers' published by Cormac Hurley, chief researcher at Microsoft Research. According to Mr. Harley, many of the spam emails that are often circulating overseas claim to be ``I am a Nigerian who has a huge amount of money hidden'', and 51% of fraudulent emails were set in Nigeria. . Therefore, such fraudulent emails are collectively referred to as ' Nigerian letters '.

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Due to the lack of variations, for a while, if you typed 'Nigeria' in a Google search, it was sometimes suggested as 'scam'. In other words, a person who receives a 'Letter from Nigeria' and feels suspicious will immediately recognize it as a spam email by searching for 'Nigeria'. Spammers don't target people like that in the first place, because it's hard to get their money out of a transaction.

Mr. Harley, who analyzed the text of countless spam emails, said from the results, ``If the purpose is to attack as many people as possible, the email should be designed to lure as many people as possible. Maximizing the target does not maximize the profit, our analysis suggests that there are only 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 100,000 gullible targets ideal for scammers. In other words, if only a handful of people are targeted, it will be a loss to hook others.'

Also, from these research results, Mr. McNally said, ``Scammers know what is effective, including spelling mistakes and grammatical mistakes,'' and even if you find a strange spam email, it is a scammer. It is one of the calculations, so I warned you not to let your guard down.