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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Thank God most of these are off shore. The "Chingrish" and other examples of poor English are always the giveaway (we all remember the old Nigerian scams, just how funny some of them were).

I've heard/read that the mistakes are intentional. Make them "close" but with just enough mistakes that it weeds out the smart folks, but make the mistakes small enough that it doesn't unduly alarm the rubes that don't "get it" or greedy folks that think they are getting a deal that's too good to be true thinking that the seller is the rube.

It's easy to imagine that the scammers are unsophisticated, but it seems that they are far more sophisticated than we imagine. I suspect that like anything where someone has discovered you can get paid without actually producing anything, that many/most of these are now run by organizations that are highly efficient and sophisticated and make millions every year doing various scams.