What do you do when your e-mail filters fail and you get a bunch of spam letters? Most probably, you delete, delete, delete without even opening them. Of course, that\u2019s absolutely the right thing to do, but\u2026we think after curiosity killed the cat, laughter brought it back. So we dug deep into some spam and found a few interesting things.<\/p>\n
As you probably know, a whole lot of spam letters claim to originate from Nigeria, though usually this is not true<\/a>. Despite Nigeria featuring in so many messages that this kind of spam was even named after it \u2014 Nigerian scam \u2014 the criminals behind them live primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom and, yes, you guessed it, Nigeria. The Ivory Coast, Togo, South Africa, the Netherlands, and Spain make up the secondary sources.<\/p>\n Usually spam looks like boring, cookie-cutter letters in which criminals promise to transfer millions of dollars to your account if you either send them a small prepayment or share your financial data. They are often written in poor language and in a very questionable way.<\/p>\n Haha one of the worst spam emails iv received @PayPalSecurity love the new text speak 'u' and poor English #nicetry<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/0vWMyhAIi0<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Chris Grimmer (@chris_grimmer) May 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe funny side of spam<\/h3>\n
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