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Re:Nigerian scammer gets a laptop from me by RegEx on Monday September 24, 2012 @05:48PM (#4567198)
The poor spelling probably increases the conversion rate from people who make the first reply. The nigerian prince and poor-spelling spammers are dead giveaways to a spam. If you filter out people who know about these cliches, you increase the likelihood that the responder will give you money.
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Re:Nigerian scammer gets a laptop from me by weaksauce on Monday September 24, 2012 @06:21PM (#4567336)
Could you imagine how many emails that they would have to field if they were, at a first pass, a convincing forgery? It's almost certainly used as a low pass filter to only prey on the ones likely to fall for it in the long run.
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