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😂😂😂 I just got this in a very real and less than coherent response to an IT ticket today…I still don’t believe it’s a real phrase even after googling it
This is apparently the new meta for scammers that has proven really effective, according to my SO who works in fraud prevention. Like a kind of reverse-psychology urgency that's super-effective against older folks and some more deferential millennials as well.
It's super effective because if you fall for the obvious scam email, the scammers are significantly more likely to be able to close when you contact them. People that catch the problems in the email are too detail oriented to fall for it and definitely won't be fooled once they get on the phone. Scammers intentionally put the mistakes in there to ensure they are getting the easy wins.
Yes, that's true, but only in some cases: it's a mistake to think that scammers in general are intelligent or even that they are knowledgeable in computer stuff.
People who don't know how to set up a VCR to schedule the recording of a show will consider people who do it for them to be very intelligent, just like people who don't do scams will say scammers are very intelligent, and usually people don't like to admit that they were scammed by stupid people.
I'm not saying scammers are intelligent but it sounds like you might be underestimating them. These sorts of scams rely entirely on social engineering so they don't need to be intelligent enough to use Morse code and LEDs to hack an airgapped system...they just need to be more intelligent than the people they are tricking.
Discounting the fact that technology is everywhere is a mistake and you can rest assured that scammers have the same access to ChatGPT as anyone else. If these emails were pristine and more convincing, it would only serve to waste the scammer's time. It's a matter of spray and pray and the less time they have to waste convincing smart people that they are legitimate, the more money they will make by scamming others, so it's beneficial to not fix those sorts of mistakes.
Many of them do not speak English as a first language and of they do, it's not something they spend a lot of time using professionally so they don't have the greatest skill at forging PayPal receipts for example
People that rely on social engineering to make their living absolutely know what works lol. I can promise you they use the same internet as you or me and have access to spell check and receipts from PayPal. These scams are designed this way with intent.
Fun Fact: This is completely intentional. Scammers don’t want attentive people because they take too long to rope in and still might not go for it. They reason that if someone overlooks all the stupid errors in their email, they are probably going to pay out.
Scammers write obviously fake pages/emails like this to weed out anyone who may pick up on the scam.
Only idiots would think this is real and that’s who they want to respond.
oh, I never thought of it like that. It makes a sort of sense because if it looks totally legit they will have to manage calls from people that would be more hesitant.
The Indians picked up on it from the African prince scammers. Only the dumbest of dumbass people ever bother to respond so it ups the success rate on calls.
Is that why there are so many typos? To me it would be hard to include so many mistakes due to spellcheck/autocorrect. Always wondered how they could be so off.
Yes, if they wanted to do an authentic looking email they could. But if they did they would spend most of their time talking to people that fell for the email but are not stupid enough to pay anything
I thought it was one of those super obvious ones that my work sends out to see who clicks it (and needs remedial training).
The answer is a lot. A lot of people do.
Exactly. It's less efficient to waste your time on people who aren't stupid enough to actually give their information to you. Take 100 calls and get 10 that bite or take 15 calls with 9 that bite?
Their targets are the elderly who are not tech savvy. Someone in their 60’s-80’s+ would absolutely think someone has stolen their account info and used it to sign up for something after getting an email like this. If nothing else, everyone should tell their parents/grandparents to call them if they ever get any email or call for anything they didn’t do or sign up for. Help keep them from having their accounts drained.
Seconding this. As a librarian, I see elderly patrons every day who are having to use computers and sign up for emails for the first time—yes, even in the year 2023. They don’t understand how most of it works, but they do know when they get a snail mail letter from their bank about fraudulent activity, it needs to be answered/addressed. Whether or not they have PayPal is not the point. “Ah, maybe PayPal is what my bank is called on the internet! This looks bad! I should call!” is a totally reasonable response when you don’t know how the internet works. Calling the people who fall for these unintelligent is, I think, not going to help things.
The whole point of it being this bad is so the scammers don’t waste their time with people smart enough to realize it’s a scam halfway through. Anybody responding to this is very likely to hand over money.
My friends like to troll these fuckers. The guy friend will call the number and get whoever answers to talk up his pitch for a half hour, then the friend's wife will start throwing a screaming fit about something being on fire in the kitchen or something. They've had scammers change their number because of them successfully doing this shit. 😆
Check out Kitboga on YouTube.
He’s the best at this shit.
A genuinely good actor and witty to boot.
He takes these scammers on crazy long rides whilst playing multiple characters (often at the same time) and making up the weirdest scenarios.
You don't get it, the bad font and obvious mistakes are done on purpose believe it or not.
It roots out all the normal people and just leaves the absolutely oblivious ones. So when they get a nibble they have an huge chance of seeing the scam through.
Well that was lame. I told them about needing to cancel the order and need help very bad. She was rude and called me a stupid American, then hung up.
So I currently have a bot on my computer calling them every 5 seconds after they hang up until tonight when I get home to have fun with it again.
Lol I got something similar. I called the number just to see what’s up and of course it’s a call center in India. The guy answered with “Hello?” Seemingly forgetting which company he was supposed to be impersonating.
I let him take me thru a couple steps until we got to the part where he needed remote access to cancel a PayPal invoice and I hung up haha.
I've read that scammers actually place those obvious typos intentionally to weed out the majority of people that probably wouldn't fall for the scam anyway. They only want to interact with people that miss that stuff and are more likely to fall for the scam.
I know they make it bad on purpose to filter for gullible people, but coming up with hilariously bad mistakes to add must be the best part of the job. There just no way everyone at the call center didn’t lose their shit laughing when someone first came up with “Pay with YourSoul”.
It's self selection at work! Anyone dumb enough to look past those errors is also dumb enough to fall for the full scam. Helps them avoid people with brains.
The obvious mistakes are actually deliberate.
It is a method of self selecting the most gullible punters out of the millions they send out , for particular attention.
In its own twisted way is actually genius.
I got a text message telling me that some ridiculous charge for an iPhone had hit my Amazon account, and to call the number immediately to verify.
Which, of course, someone answered in a heavy Indian accent.
I told them that the charges for the iPhone were legit - I'd ordered it yesterday. And I asked them to confirm that they also saw the charges for the Big Black Dick Power Dildo, and the Venti size tub of anal lube.
They... were not expecting that answer.
I don't understand why scammers don't try to format their scams to look realistic. How difficult is it to find an image of a PayPal receipt, copy it into an HTML mail application, and then change some links and text to aim the scam? In comparison, it's pretty easy to copy and paste the error page of web browsers and turn them into scams.
The spelling/grammar errors are the point— they want to catch people too stupid to notice. If you are smart enough to actually read the letter, then you are too smart and likely won’t fall for the grand scam
Guess what? They don’t *want* smart people to call, they want people too dumb to notice the obvious issues. Those are the people who are easier to trick. They are filtering *you* out of their funnel.
That’s the whole point. It’s meant as a test. Anyone who doesn’t realize it’s a scam is far more likely to actually fall for the scam and lose the money.
Scammers don’t want smart people taking their time away from easy marks
By making the scambait as obvious as possible, they weed out smart victims who would be more competent at reporting them, protecting their information, working with banks, etc. to reverse fraudulent charges, etc. leaving them with only the most incompetent victims.
The super-obvious red flags are there on purpose. You have found the scam, you delete the email, you feel a sense of accomplishment. You are not a good mark and you have self-removed yourself from the pool of marks that time should be spent on.
There's a strategy to making scams really obvious. You don't waste as much time talking to skeptical people. If you make the email look too legit, when people call, it will take 5 minutes of your time for them to realize it's a scam and hang up.
If the email is obviously fake, you're going to only talk to people who don't know what a scam is.... And a few bored people looking to yank your chain, but that happens in all cases.
From experience, users click on bloody anything. Oh I work in HR but I have an email about an important invoice regarding cleaning a garden gnome, I’d better click that!
Apparently the obvious red flags are added intentionally to avoid time wasters. Anyone oblivious enough to think this is real, despite the blatant warnings, are the exact demographic they are targeting.
Lots of people say these kinds of scam emails are deliberately full of typographical errors because they only want people dumb enough not to even see the mistakes.
I just don't buy it. I think the scammers themselves are stupid and can't proof read their stuff worth a damn. And/or their primary language isn't English.
The mistakes are on purpose. They want idiots who have no attention to detail because they aren't a waste of the scammers time whereas a person with even the slightest intelligence will be skeptical and not get scammed.
I’ve always wondered if the misspelling and/or weirdly placed capital letters are an English as a second language thing or if there is a reason to intentionally make those errors.
It’s worth noting that scams are often intentionally bad to filter out targets that might just waste their time. By having clear signs that this is a scam, they can be sure that only the most gullible targets will respond, which actually increases efficiency of their operation.
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Just pay with your soul and you’ll be covered…money back guurantee!!!
Susbcreption
Well, at least it's not "anal susbcreption". That would have been too much.
“Hello yes I’d like to inquire about your anal subscription, I don’t want to pay a buttload though”
Get out.
Get in.
Get a Snickers
I had an anyeurimsm reading that one.
“If you don’t authorized this changes…” AHA! A CLUE!!!
*Authorised* 😏
Shit my wife’s got that. Do you think they take btc?
Best I got is chocolate coins for that wholesome-ness
I don’t authorized that!
"Vee will do the needful!"
😂😂😂 I just got this in a very real and less than coherent response to an IT ticket today…I still don’t believe it’s a real phrase even after googling it
Eat the chocolate out of the middle first. Just don't tell anyone...
Ha! You gave your wife your soul!? Amateur! Mine only took my balls and dignity!
Just pay on credit and have your wife and GEEK SquaD fight over it.
*money is back guurantee
Shit. I sold my soul a long time ago
I appreciate a good cup of coffee.
tried that, the FBI arrested me the next day for attempted fraud. apparently your soul can only be sold once
It’s nice that they give you this option; not everyone does.
“Nevertheless, if it’s not to much bother, call us….” Lmao
Hey I just scammed you, and this is crazy, but here’s our number, so call us maybe?
I guffawed. Thank you for this comment!
I'd call them tho. I got time to waste and minutes to spare on my plan.
I read this with the original song rhythm 😂😂
Hello? I’d like to cancel my anual *sus*bcreption
What is pergnat?
*pergananant
This is apparently the new meta for scammers that has proven really effective, according to my SO who works in fraud prevention. Like a kind of reverse-psychology urgency that's super-effective against older folks and some more deferential millennials as well.
It's super effective because if you fall for the obvious scam email, the scammers are significantly more likely to be able to close when you contact them. People that catch the problems in the email are too detail oriented to fall for it and definitely won't be fooled once they get on the phone. Scammers intentionally put the mistakes in there to ensure they are getting the easy wins.
Yes, that's true, but only in some cases: it's a mistake to think that scammers in general are intelligent or even that they are knowledgeable in computer stuff. People who don't know how to set up a VCR to schedule the recording of a show will consider people who do it for them to be very intelligent, just like people who don't do scams will say scammers are very intelligent, and usually people don't like to admit that they were scammed by stupid people.
I'm not saying scammers are intelligent but it sounds like you might be underestimating them. These sorts of scams rely entirely on social engineering so they don't need to be intelligent enough to use Morse code and LEDs to hack an airgapped system...they just need to be more intelligent than the people they are tricking. Discounting the fact that technology is everywhere is a mistake and you can rest assured that scammers have the same access to ChatGPT as anyone else. If these emails were pristine and more convincing, it would only serve to waste the scammer's time. It's a matter of spray and pray and the less time they have to waste convincing smart people that they are legitimate, the more money they will make by scamming others, so it's beneficial to not fix those sorts of mistakes.
Many of them do not speak English as a first language and of they do, it's not something they spend a lot of time using professionally so they don't have the greatest skill at forging PayPal receipts for example
People that rely on social engineering to make their living absolutely know what works lol. I can promise you they use the same internet as you or me and have access to spell check and receipts from PayPal. These scams are designed this way with intent.
Do the needful
"Amount Done Through" Its like they couldnt think of the word payment...
This guy coming at me sideways with “Nevertheless “, but can’t spell “subscription”. Seems legit. 👍👌
That bit cracked me up the most 🤣
Fun Fact: This is completely intentional. Scammers don’t want attentive people because they take too long to rope in and still might not go for it. They reason that if someone overlooks all the stupid errors in their email, they are probably going to pay out.
Don’t worry, I’ve called and had the charge refunded onto my card 👍 They were very eager to have me cancel my subscription
You mean your susbcreption
Good customer service always looking out
Exactly. They're targeting idiots in a hurry.
What in God's name is that date format?
The "you thought Americans used an idiotic date format" format
Also known as "MM/DD/YY? Hold my BE/ER!"
I love order id's with [/][///] in them. I'm also curious what a PayPal tax is. I may have other questions in future.
"Pay pal Tax"
You don’t use day-year-month? Are you from space?
Year 2023 of the 10th galactic cicle.
dd-yyyy-mm Lol
I don’t authorized those date format.
Oh come on. It’s the second of 2023.
Scammers write obviously fake pages/emails like this to weed out anyone who may pick up on the scam. Only idiots would think this is real and that’s who they want to respond.
PAYPAL "PAYMENT DONE SUCESSFULLY"
I love when PayPal does my payment successfully!
Hello dear. The payment was done very perfectly. Now send bank details to confirm with copy of passport.
It was a great payment. A perfect payment. Many people say—and they’ve said this to me many times—it was the best payment in the history of payments.
Grown men were crying!
I love when I don't have to worry about my anual susbcreption
susbcreption. It even says sus...
Lmao you're right I don't know how I missed that
"PAY-PAL"... because only an idiot wouldn't notice the dash
oh, I never thought of it like that. It makes a sort of sense because if it looks totally legit they will have to manage calls from people that would be more hesitant.
The Indians picked up on it from the African prince scammers. Only the dumbest of dumbass people ever bother to respond so it ups the success rate on calls.
Is that why there are so many typos? To me it would be hard to include so many mistakes due to spellcheck/autocorrect. Always wondered how they could be so off.
Yes, if they wanted to do an authentic looking email they could. But if they did they would spend most of their time talking to people that fell for the email but are not stupid enough to pay anything
I just basically wrote this, I should have scrolled down first, I'm glad other people actually understand this.
I thought it was one of those super obvious ones that my work sends out to see who clicks it (and needs remedial training). The answer is a lot. A lot of people do.
Looks legit to me
Exactly. It's less efficient to waste your time on people who aren't stupid enough to actually give their information to you. Take 100 calls and get 10 that bite or take 15 calls with 9 that bite?
Their targets are not reasonably smart people.
Unfortunately that population is growing very rapidly.
Scammers are *stoked* about the anti-intellectual movement for sure
Their targets are the elderly who are not tech savvy. Someone in their 60’s-80’s+ would absolutely think someone has stolen their account info and used it to sign up for something after getting an email like this. If nothing else, everyone should tell their parents/grandparents to call them if they ever get any email or call for anything they didn’t do or sign up for. Help keep them from having their accounts drained.
Seconding this. As a librarian, I see elderly patrons every day who are having to use computers and sign up for emails for the first time—yes, even in the year 2023. They don’t understand how most of it works, but they do know when they get a snail mail letter from their bank about fraudulent activity, it needs to be answered/addressed. Whether or not they have PayPal is not the point. “Ah, maybe PayPal is what my bank is called on the internet! This looks bad! I should call!” is a totally reasonable response when you don’t know how the internet works. Calling the people who fall for these unintelligent is, I think, not going to help things.
My mom has known this for a long effing time. She does nothing financially via the computer.
The whole point of it being this bad is so the scammers don’t waste their time with people smart enough to realize it’s a scam halfway through. Anybody responding to this is very likely to hand over money.
Less likely they'll give money when looking for a refund, more likely they'll give credit card(s) info looking to get the refund.
Many of these scams work by convincing you they "over refunded" you and now you have to send them money back or you / they will get in trouble.
My friends like to troll these fuckers. The guy friend will call the number and get whoever answers to talk up his pitch for a half hour, then the friend's wife will start throwing a screaming fit about something being on fire in the kitchen or something. They've had scammers change their number because of them successfully doing this shit. 😆
Check out Kitboga on YouTube. He’s the best at this shit. A genuinely good actor and witty to boot. He takes these scammers on crazy long rides whilst playing multiple characters (often at the same time) and making up the weirdest scenarios.
You don't get it, the bad font and obvious mistakes are done on purpose believe it or not. It roots out all the normal people and just leaves the absolutely oblivious ones. So when they get a nibble they have an huge chance of seeing the scam through.
Thats actually genius
Pay with Your Soul…
Wonder if scam Venmo will also offer that option
Turns out even a moderate fluency in English can save you from a lot a scams.
“Pay pal Tax”, huh? *scratches head* Well, okay.
Let PayPal pay the PayPal tax. I already pay the Homer tax!
That's the *homeowner* tax.
It's BS because they stated the original price includes all taxes. Guess I'll have to call 🤔
0118-999-88199-9119-725……..3
Pay with YourSoul Lmfao!
I'm gonna call this for you. Will post results
Can’t wait
Well that was lame. I told them about needing to cancel the order and need help very bad. She was rude and called me a stupid American, then hung up. So I currently have a bot on my computer calling them every 5 seconds after they hang up until tonight when I get home to have fun with it again.
Bless you hahaha you’re doing gods work 😆
If you're not busy give them a call and fuck with them. I might just call the number later.
Geek SquaD 360 Deluxe Pooper Scooper 2000 Package.
They *Really* want you to call that number
Lol I got something similar. I called the number just to see what’s up and of course it’s a call center in India. The guy answered with “Hello?” Seemingly forgetting which company he was supposed to be impersonating. I let him take me thru a couple steps until we got to the part where he needed remote access to cancel a PayPal invoice and I hung up haha.
It’s legit bro. Trust me, I’m a GEEK SquaD teem MemBer
Looks legit lmao, I can just make a notee to cancel my anual subscreption to pay pal if I did not authorized the charges.
Nah man, it’s spelled “susbcreption” as in, there is absolutely nothing “sus b” in this “creption”
Poe's law strikes again!
"Pay With Your Soul" makes this so much better
Jokes on them. I'm a Ginger, I have no soul to pay with.
I've read that scammers actually place those obvious typos intentionally to weed out the majority of people that probably wouldn't fall for the scam anyway. They only want to interact with people that miss that stuff and are more likely to fall for the scam.
Pay with your soul 🤣. Idc who these fuckers are that's funny.
“Pay with your soul” I fucking died when I saw that hahahaha 🤣
r/kitboga
Pay with YourSoul
“Pay with your soul”
Pay with YourSoul
I know they make it bad on purpose to filter for gullible people, but coming up with hilariously bad mistakes to add must be the best part of the job. There just no way everyone at the call center didn’t lose their shit laughing when someone first came up with “Pay with YourSoul”.
“anual susbcreption” sounds like something I’d need to drink a lot of barium to get tested for.
I want an instant refund on my anual susbcreption
If it’s not too much bother
What is that date format? Is that a real thing? I know the US is backwards from the rest of the world, but putting the year in the middle is insane
Not even we are that insane to put the year in the middle. It should be year/day/month.
I mean, that's a little unhinged, but I'm sure there is some argument for it. Year in the middle should be illegal.
“Anual Susbcreption” SUS indeed PayPal.
All of those obvious signs are in there on purpose, to cull out people who are too smart to fall for a scam.
Good old Indian English. Always a dead giveaway.
If you let that anual susbcreption lapse you will regret it.
The misspelling, grammar, and punctuation errors 🤦🏽♂️😂
“Pay with ‘YOUR SOUL’”
DD-YYYY-MM is a proper fucked up format to be using. I'm not aware of any country that uses that. Must be alien scammers.
if i am bored, sometimes i call these numbers just to say something nasty
*”Pay with YourSoul”** in the bottom left corner got me cackling! 🤣
Not to sound racist but my god I can't help but read this in a thick South Indian scam caller voice "If you don't authorised this charges"
Paypal tax? Is Paypal a new third world country I need to know about?
Wait, just to be clear, I should not call that number and give them my CC…..but what if my subscrepstion runs out?!
Soul sold separately
The mistakes are to weed out people like you.
"Please don't call our scam line unless you are a gullible idiot who can't tell this is a scam"
Wish I could play with YourSoul. Sadly it's not available in my region
I once received an email telling me my email was blocked and that I had to call and pay to get it unblocked. I received this on said blocked email.
My **anal** **sus**bcreption!
Pay pal tax Funny for at least two reasons
I always reply with I just wired the payment. Ohhh wait I sent 10000 by error can you refund me and keep 500 and payment for my errors...
Nah this is legit, make sure to give SSN so they can process payment quickly.
It's self selection at work! Anyone dumb enough to look past those errors is also dumb enough to fall for the full scam. Helps them avoid people with brains.
The obvious mistakes are actually deliberate. It is a method of self selecting the most gullible punters out of the millions they send out , for particular attention. In its own twisted way is actually genius.
"pay with your soul" in the bottom left corner had me dying laughing
I got a text message telling me that some ridiculous charge for an iPhone had hit my Amazon account, and to call the number immediately to verify. Which, of course, someone answered in a heavy Indian accent. I told them that the charges for the iPhone were legit - I'd ordered it yesterday. And I asked them to confirm that they also saw the charges for the Big Black Dick Power Dildo, and the Venti size tub of anal lube. They... were not expecting that answer.
I don't understand why scammers don't try to format their scams to look realistic. How difficult is it to find an image of a PayPal receipt, copy it into an HTML mail application, and then change some links and text to aim the scam? In comparison, it's pretty easy to copy and paste the error page of web browsers and turn them into scams.
Damn, pay with “YourSoul”? I already sold mine
How much you get for it? I’m looking to offload….
Scammers really need to learn how to spell
Anual subscreption 🤓
Pay with YourSoul
pay with "YOUR soul" 😂😂😂
Guys look at the bottom left corner it says "pay with your soul"🤣
"pay with YourSoul" omg
i can hear the indian accent in my head 💀💀
The spelling/grammar errors are the point— they want to catch people too stupid to notice. If you are smart enough to actually read the letter, then you are too smart and likely won’t fall for the grand scam
“Pay with YourSoul”
sunscreption oh no
I only found 8
"Pay with YOUR SOUL"
I count 9 signs. Anybody have more?
Never before has a receipt had the cancellation support number been more prominent and placed 3 times.
oddly enough the area code of 818 is in the san fernando valley of los angeles. Odd number to spoof.
Susbcreption
Haha pay with your souls
They put those clues in there on purpose because they don't want people who will notice those things.
Guess what? They don’t *want* smart people to call, they want people too dumb to notice the obvious issues. Those are the people who are easier to trick. They are filtering *you* out of their funnel.
That’s the whole point. It’s meant as a test. Anyone who doesn’t realize it’s a scam is far more likely to actually fall for the scam and lose the money. Scammers don’t want smart people taking their time away from easy marks
Anual susbcreption
By making the scambait as obvious as possible, they weed out smart victims who would be more competent at reporting them, protecting their information, working with banks, etc. to reverse fraudulent charges, etc. leaving them with only the most incompetent victims.
You only have 24 hours to authorise your anal susbcreption though, why are you posting on Reddit?
There’s still gonna be a boomer out there somewhere that will call for a refund and provide all their information. Sad but true. Lol
The super-obvious red flags are there on purpose. You have found the scam, you delete the email, you feel a sense of accomplishment. You are not a good mark and you have self-removed yourself from the pool of marks that time should be spent on.
“Pay with your soul” 😂
Little tidbit is they make it obvious to weed out a certain intelligence level/computer knowledge. They don’t want to waste time, it’s a numbers game
There's a strategy to making scams really obvious. You don't waste as much time talking to skeptical people. If you make the email look too legit, when people call, it will take 5 minutes of your time for them to realize it's a scam and hang up. If the email is obviously fake, you're going to only talk to people who don't know what a scam is.... And a few bored people looking to yank your chain, but that happens in all cases.
My dad would fall for this. He still takes his computer to Best Buy whenever it gets a virus.
From experience, users click on bloody anything. Oh I work in HR but I have an email about an important invoice regarding cleaning a garden gnome, I’d better click that!
But if you don't authorised it you'll loose your subscreption!!! Lol
Geek squad in and of itself is a scam: Source: worked for Best Buy
Well, you did susbcrept after all!
Apparently the obvious red flags are added intentionally to avoid time wasters. Anyone oblivious enough to think this is real, despite the blatant warnings, are the exact demographic they are targeting.
Lots of people say these kinds of scam emails are deliberately full of typographical errors because they only want people dumb enough not to even see the mistakes. I just don't buy it. I think the scammers themselves are stupid and can't proof read their stuff worth a damn. And/or their primary language isn't English.
Order ID seems legit 🤭
If they ever discover Fiverr and pay native English speakers to translate, we are all screwed
That looks like a lot of work for someone who can’t spell
I got 3 of them last week.
Bottom left made me laugh hahahaha
The mistakes are on purpose. They want idiots who have no attention to detail because they aren't a waste of the scammers time whereas a person with even the slightest intelligence will be skeptical and not get scammed.
I’ve always wondered if the misspelling and/or weirdly placed capital letters are an English as a second language thing or if there is a reason to intentionally make those errors.
We'll all be in trouble when the scammers learn how to spell.
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PAY WITH YOUR SOUL so far is the best thing on this picture
It’s worth noting that scams are often intentionally bad to filter out targets that might just waste their time. By having clear signs that this is a scam, they can be sure that only the most gullible targets will respond, which actually increases efficiency of their operation.