Can't email scammers learn better English?

That's actually decent English compared to most.

My last attempted IRS scam contained the phrase "don't let this get you arrested", which sounds more like bad southern U.S. English than Indian English as a second language.

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That's actually decent English compared to most. 

My last attempted IRS scam contained the phrase "don't let this get you arrested", which sounds more like bad southern U.S. English than Indian English as a second language.

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The part that got me was the "kindlys" (tip off it's someone from India) and the exclamation marks.

I think if Chase was going to send me an email, it wouldn't read Click here!!!!

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To verify your account, kindly CLICK_ON_HERE!!

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I angrily click on those links...just to show the scammers I'm the boss of me.

We teach remedial English in college. They're doing just fine.

Don’t question a Liberian prince’s grammar bruh

I’ll help. Just click the link below and input your personal information and I’ll get rid of them

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This wasn't an email scammer, but this past Saturday I kept getting calls that was showing up as my own number. It would just ignore them but it started getting out of hand, I am talking about every 15-20 mins they would call back..

It was about 30 mins before the LSU game when my phone started ringing again so I answered it and it was a voice recording that said something about "Windows on your computer has been compromised".. blah blah blah blah.. Press 1 to talk to a representative who can help you with this problem.

I pressed 1 and this lady with a foreign accent (sounded Indian.. Dot, not feather) comes on the line and starts telling me some bullshite about how there is a threat to my computer and that Windows has been compromised.. So I asked her something like "why is this happening?" and she said something and then I said "This is hard to believe especially since I don't use Windows. I use IOS so take my fricking number off of your fricking list!" and hung up..

All these scammers are getting out of hand and I have to think it's because people are falling for it, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it..

There's a theory that they intentionally use bad English so that they won't have to waste time with smarter people who will see through the scam after a bit.

I work in an industry where we have to be very cognizant of wire fraud and our customers getting phished into wiring their funds to a scammer. I was telling someone the other day, the best defense we have right now is that the scammers have terrible grammar, which is a red flag to most. Unfortunately, their attempts have been getting a lot more sophisticated recently. The scary thing is that it's very unsettled in the courts as to who all is liable for wire fraud. Since the scammer can't be found most of the time, the victims turn to suing everybody else in the transaction, accusing them of not having better security protocol.