From: "(PeteCresswell)"    
   Subject: Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week.   
       
   Per James Wilkinson Sword:   
   >I've never seen one that even made me look twice.  Spelling and grammatical er   
   rors everywhere, bad >alignment, wrong server used on all the links, blatantly    
   obvious.   
       
   One idea I have heard is that:   
       
   - Sending spam email is essentially cost-free, so you send   
     lots of the stuff.   
       
   - The overhead starts kicking in when the scam's followup involves   
     people contacting the target.   
       
   - They want to minimize the number of contacts with people above a   
     certain intelligence/sophistication level because they tend to    
     be unproductive ("False Positives") - yet eat up resources.   
       
   - Consequently they craft the email so that anybody with half a brain   
     will ignore it and the people left - who respond - are the easiest   
     of targets.   
       
   There is an interesting thread on this subject in Quora:   
   https://www.quora.com/Why-are-email-scams-written-in-broken-English   
       
   Microsoft has a white paper on this subject:   
   http://tinyurl.com/hem9h9j   
   https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-nigerian-scammers-s   
   ay-they-are-from-nigeria/   
       
   I didn't download the entire PDF - just read the abstract... but it   
   seems to be consistent with other comments.   
   --    
   Pete Cresswell   
      
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