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The ineptitude of the spamming is actually a sign of eptitude -- they intentionally include the signs you look for because you're a waste of their time. They have figured out the precise line to walk where bad marks like you avoid them but easy marks like him engage.

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I've heard that's the thinking behind the infamous and infamously 'reeking of scam' Nigerian Prince email scams too. And the fact that people still fall for them shows it's a seemingly a strategy worth pursuing.

[But a discussion here on the ridiculously obvious scam that people fall for all the time is probably too off-topic --even for HN!]

PS: Upvote for "eptitude". Even if it's not a real word, it ought to be. [And I'm not going to spoil things by looking it up]

Aptitude and ineptitude are the now divergent pair, for your interest. Apt was turned into ept

ah TIL

I suppose that makes some sense; anyone who will fall for the most blatantly obvious scams will probably be pretty gullible, much more willing to hand over money.

Intentional or not, they have figured out a kind of clever selection bias.

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