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Originally Posted by vash

with AI, I bet the next generation of scams is going to be good! no more bad grammar, bad spelling, etc.

I've read that those minor issues are actually intentional. If you put a few small mistakes in, it weeds out the folks that are smart enough to not follow through with it, but might eat up a little of the scammers time. The folks that don't notice the grammar, spelling, etc... mistakes are just vulnerable enough to fall for the scam and end up sending some money.

Originally Posted by rwest

Not sure if it’s possible or what it would take, but what would happen to the scams if we shut down internet access from India?

There are too many non-scam folks in India, and they may have friends, family, or business in the US, so that's not really viable.

Originally Posted by dad911

They will use vpn or another way to spoof origin ip address.

You would also need to shut down at a minimum Nigeria, China & Russia.

Yep, not realistic or adequate, and like you said, too many other places to scam from. And a lot of these are big, organized business, so they'd just move shop to another country if we managed to actually shut them down.

Originally Posted by Tidybuoy

I frequently get scam emails from my "boss" requesting that I do a wire transfer. I always know it's a scammer when they say, "Good Morning Vern, How's Your Day Going". That is a dead giveaway that it's not my boss.

Right, to seem realistic, it would have to start
"Hey, dumbaß! You forgot to put the new coversheet on your TPS report." Or is that just me? LOL