How come spammers are bright enough to figure out how to send several million e-mails, harvest email addresses and set up money laundering schemes but they frequently make themselves look like even bigger complete idiots with laughably poor grammar?
From example just received:
eBay sent this message to you because you have a reclamation that you have take the money from a client and we think that you are a big scammer.
(I sent this message to you because you think this will be a big laugh. I think you have take this message and are having big laugh too, no?)
By Craig Cockburn, IT Professional from Scotland. Critical Thinking, Agile Delivery, Politics and Society
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