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Re:We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019) by ryandrake on Friday January 24, 2020 @05:12PM (#22142947)
You know how E-mail scams are always riddled with typos and grammar mistakes? A theory is that this is a deliberate way to filter out the people too smart/cyncial to fall for the scam. "By sending an initial email that's obvious in its shortcomings, the scammers are isolating the most gullible targets. If you trash their email, that's fine. They don't want you, someone from whom there's virtually no chance of receiving any money. They want people who, faced with a ridiculous email, still don't recognize its illegitimacy." [1]

When you say your service offers a cloud-based solution for delivering orchestrated micro-services powered by AI and ML, you're not targeting technical people who know this is bullshit. You're not even after business people with a real problem to solve. You're trying to isolate out-of-their-element execs with more budget than brains, who are impressed by jargon they don't understand, and who have a KPI to "undertake synergistic partnerships with hip technical solutions providers."

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nigerian-scam-emails-are...

Re:We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019) by amayne on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:19PM (#22143991)
I think the more likely scenario is that they’re filled with typos to avoid spam detection filters for keywords and phrases. The gullibility theory doesn’t explain the advantage of using similarly appearing letters (the number one for the lowercase L), etc., which spam uses all the time.
Re:We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019) by ben509 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @02:38AM (#22145262)
I think the gullibility theory does better at explaining the basic premises of spam emails, which are pretty farfetched.