Re: Fwd: Security: Your Online Banking Account is Blocked

["David Lodge" <dave () cirt net>]

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 :-)

dave

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