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Re:Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012) by deciplex on Monday August 25, 2014 @09:22PM (#8225207)
If you automated it though, and scaled it enough, you could effectively spam the scammers, reducing their profitability.
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Re:Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012) by jobigoud on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @05:29AM (#8226312)
Yes it could be a feature of the spam detector.

However it could lead to an arms race. What if the scammers start to write bots that parse the answers until there is a substantial progress in the scam? We would end up with machine small talk and the overall level of spam traffic would skyrocket…

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Re:Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012) by ghc on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @07:21AM (#8226528)
If the scammers learn to write parsers, then job well done. They'll have a skill they can use to get a real job.
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Re:Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012) by seunosewa on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @07:59AM (#8226629)
That won't happen. Some evil geek would write the parser and sell it to all of them.
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