“The idea that you can rely on looking for bad grammar or spelling in order to spot a phishing attack is no longer the case. We used to say that you could identify phishing attacks because the emails look a certain way. That no longer works.”
@freemo Well, there ARE white people who live in Africa. I met one very nice South African lady who went to Penn.
And there's the guy that owns Twitter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Africans_of_European_ancestry
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@jaysonmassey Thi is true.. but how many of them are nigerian porinces? :)
@freemo No one is sure. Nigeria does have over 200 tribes. At least one person is photographing them.
@jaysonmassey Very cool!
@freemo Of course, if you want to become royalty, and aren't picky about the country, you can BUY a title. Here's how!
https://www.infoplease.com/biographies/government-politics/royal-family/how-get-your-own-royal-title
@jaysonmassey Technically I am already royalty, at least as far as useless titles go (my ancestor from the 1700s in england)
@freemo LORD DR. FREEMO
@jaysonmassey I prefer to go Kim Jung Il style with "Dear Leader, Who is a Perfect Incarnation of the Appearance that a Leader Should Have, Freemo"
I was under the impression (will look later for corroboration) that poor grammar in phishing serves as a filter: phishers don't want to waste their time on people who won't get duped, so in an attempt to filter those people out early they send initial e-mails that will look suspicious to those people. If that's true, then the most obvious way to interpret the reason from that article doesn't apply. However, there might be some more involved reasons: e.g. if text generators make interaction with the potential victim cheaper, the reason for the filter's existence might disappear.
@jaysonmassey I knew it!!! Despite my whiteness deep down I always knew the emails telling me I was a nigerian prince were true... thank you.