Computers & Internet Why are spam emails written so poorly?

[JuddsABlue]

Why are spam emails so terribly worded? I am used to seeing a few get past the filter and I laugh at how poorly they're written, nobody could ever take them seriously enough to open the atachment

I assume even a half decent looking email would have a much higher success rate by having some dingbats just blindly open the attachment

How are these created? Is it some automatic word created that does it's best to create a believable sentence but fails terribly and never gets proof read

Furthermore where do they originate? Is it mostly from someone's basement computer set up or are these things now basically breeding themselves and what we see are mutilations of some kind of uncared for spam

 

[Selective Retention]

Most of them would be from overseas I imagine and written by people with english as a second language.

 

[JuddsABlue]

Most of them would be from overseas I imagine and written by people with english as a second language.

I thought of this too but then I thought surely not

It would take little to minimum effort to get something created in plain English considering it's so widely spoken

 

[dumb]

re: wording - i'd say that scammers are predominantly not all that educated. plenty from non-western countries but they come from all over, particularly nigeria, which is the unofficial capital of email scamming.

http://www.thescambaiter.com/

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[morri]

So you look longer at the emails than you would otherwise.

 

[Pie eyed]

But English is the official language of Nigeria!!

English is the official language of Australia too.
I rest my case.