# The lamest email scam to date:

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-email-scam-to-date/518079>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 18, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-email-scam-to-date/518079 "2009-11-18T21:49:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![badlyburnttoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@badlyburnttoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badlyburnttoast)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-email-scam-to-date/518079/21 "2009-11-24T06:51:20Z")

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I read somewhere they introduce poor grammar and misspellings on purpose - that makes the person being scammed feel superior to them ‘stupid furriners’ so they are less likely to consider they are being scammed.

I don’t know if it’s true or not, but it seems plausible to me.

Anyway I agree with what **ArrMatey!** said - they are quite clever if nothing else.

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**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-email-scam-to-date/518079/22 "2009-11-24T08:03:07Z")

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> [@ArrMatey](#):
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> I am sort-of impressed with the thought process behind this, though. Who’s going to answer it? Why, people who have already fallen for internet scams at least once. They’re sort-of going for a repeat business model for internet scams.

It’s true. They’ve targeted their pitch to people who are definitely gullible enough to fall for it once.

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