Re:I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
by except on Monday September 14, 2020 @09:53AM
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The app looks poorly made and there are clear spelling mistakes plus the fact that it was not offered by TikTok which should have made you suspicious. It sucks this happened but maybe you should have done some research and checked if this app actually did belong to TikTok. I assume the app also asked you to login to Facebook directly rather than OAuth which should also made you suspicious.
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Re:I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
by klmadfejno on Monday September 14, 2020 @10:01AM
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I've often heard the argument that scams add spelling mistakes to only catch the idiots that have a high conversion rate for the scam. That doesn't feel like it makes sense on something like this which is highly sophisticated. Is it just bad quality?
My point was that official applications rarely ever include them, not that it was intentionally placed there.
> you should have done some research
Just to be clear, this didn't happen to me. I just posted what Niek van der Maas wrote on his GitHub. I don't think he's even reading this HN thread, so no use giving him advice.
Very American opinion. You are aware that there's a lot of non-native English speakers who can absolutely miss a few typos?