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Re:Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet by exo762 on Friday December 27, 2013 @04:20PM (#6972670)
Why bother with victims smart enough to fight back later, if you can have poorest of souls, incapable of reasoning that behind shoddy website might be a shoddy business?
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Re:Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet by 67726e on Friday December 27, 2013 @04:34PM (#6972723)
That is supposedly among the reasons for those 419 scams and the like to use shoddy writing and stories. You want to eliminate those that can fight back. A bit like mugging the little old lady instead of the 6'5" bodybuilder.

It also reminds me a bit of insects that evolved to be flashy to demonstrate that they are poisonous. The sort of reverse camouflage stops all but the most foolish predators from partaking.

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