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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Dec 2021

    So is this trying to find people to scam by selecting for past victims of scams? 👀 I would totally read a strong, detailed ethnography of all this.🤓 Do they A/B test messages? What is the folk psychology among the scammers about what might work? Do they have their own fads?pic.twitter.com/YzTGMQzh1L

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      2. Dale Innis  🌹‏ @DaleInnis 27 Dec 2021
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        It's quite possible! There was a paper awhile back (which of course I can't find right now) about how scammers intentionally make their pitches comparatively unconvincing, with lots of misspellings and egregious grammar, exactly to weed out people who aren't extremely gullible.

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      3. Dale Innis  🌹‏ @DaleInnis 27 Dec 2021
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        Ah, this was it I think:https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-nigerian-scammers-say-they-are-from-nigeria/ …

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      1. Sam Quigley‏ @emerose 27 Dec 2021
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        Related, worthwhile read: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WhyFromNigeria.pdf …

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      1. Sarah T.‏ @saraht_74 27 Dec 2021
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        This is absolutely a scanner tactic. Selects both for gullibility and people in denial.

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      1. chengjih‏ @chengjih 27 Dec 2021
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        I remember a Microsoft research paper from a while ago, arguing that scam messages are crafted to be a reverse pons asinorum: scammers want truly gullible people, as less gullible people are costly to try to trick. Anyone who sees these email as obviously fake aren't the target.

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      1. Jennifer M. Miller, PhD‏ @jmm140 27 Dec 2021
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        Yes, and I don’t think the idea is even new. Have seen simple “Have you been scammed?” messages years ago.

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      2. Zachary Pruckowski‏ @zachpruckowski 27 Dec 2021
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        I've always understood it to be a Fail Fast thing, creating a clean sales pipeline. If someone's very likely to ultimately recognize the scam, you want them to bail out before you've spent too much time/effort on it. So you weed them out early.

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      3. Zachary Pruckowski‏ @zachpruckowski 27 Dec 2021
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        Like the best case for a scammer is you giving them money, but the worst case is spending hours and hours trying to swindle a guy who refuses to send the money at the last second.

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      2. Wendy Edwards‏ @wayward710 27 Dec 2021
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        Seems like sending messages to Americans that mention a "barrister" is a red flag unto itself.

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      3. Nicest Snog 🔎‏ @Insect_Song 27 Dec 2021
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        Well he was in Europe Italy.

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