Brian Diaz wrote:
But they don't care about spelling and obvious clues, because the people who most often fall for these scams don't notice bad spelling or obvious clues.

All they see is this:

We are please to announce to you that your email address emerged along side 4 others as a category 2 winner in this New year weekly Publisher®'s Clearing House Consequently. You have won One million dollars and therefore been approved for a total pay out of One million dollars($1,000,000.00) USD The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

I got this beat..a Barrister has email me several times to say..He got a check in my name waiting for instruction from where to send 14 Million Dollars! Brian u can accept for me...I will give you pert near a dollar for your effort! Lol

Brian Diaz wrote:
But they don't care about spelling and obvious clues, because the people who most often fall for these scams don't notice bad spelling or obvious clues.

EXACTLY.

I've read more than one article analyzing this. It turns out to be simple math informed by psychology and economics.

The dumber and stupider the scam obviously is, the fewer intelligent and non-naive people respond. While this decreases the total number of responses, it greatly increases the percentage of what is called in sales "pre-qualified prospect responses" per million spams sent out.

In other words, by making the scam obvious (to most of us), it ensures that the (fewer) replies they do get are more likely to be suckered in all the way, decreasing the amount of "individual attention" level work needed by the scammers per dollar eventually scammed.

If the scam is TOO stoopid, then the responses aren't from people with enough money to scam (the super dumb aren't very successful in life).

So they try to find a sweet spot of pretty dumb, but not TOO dumb. (And also seniors, who while not "dumb", are too trusting and unaware of how corrupt things are out there - and likely have savings accounts to plunder.)

Apparently, organized crime is smart enough to hire experts in the psychology of mass manipulation and differential economics.

Brian Diaz wrote:
I think co-ordinator is a British thing.

Thanks Brian! Always in the know on obscure stuff. Hey wait! I ain’t English, I did stop over there for a few days before returning to the US. England, the only ‘foreign’ country that us Americans can understand some of what they say! LOL!!!