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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
It's a good thing scammers are morons and typically foreign. You can normally tell from the first email, because it's a copy/paste.
"Hello, is the item still available? Please tell me your best price, I wish to purchase immediately!"
Always strange and poor grammar, always a very general email, never any specific probing questions, always convoluted payment schemes to pay from afar and ship. I have never sold a car to someone that hasn't asked any specific questions regarding condition, maintenance, etc. That one is typically the dead giveaway, it's rare to get those sorts of questions from a scammer like you did.
I just ignore them, because they're pretty easy to weed out. What's really sad is that if these people are persisting in the same scams year after year, that means it probably works.
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It's funny, there's a school of thought that holds that it's actually BENEFICIAL to scammers to use poor grammar, weird English etc. because in doing so, they weed out the recipients who are unlikely to respond to the scam anyway (i.e. the smart ones).
The principle is that if you respond to something like that not noticing that it sounds fishy, you are exactly the type of person who'd be a mark.
I always thought that the scammers could do so much better if they just improved their approach, but maybe they're smarter than I thought.
Cheers
w.