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Because easy scams to detect prevent false negatives for the scammer.

If you get a response to a badly written scam, chances are the respondent will be a sucker and the scam will be successful.

If you get a response to a hard to detect scam, chances are you will spend more time for a less likely payout.

Microsoft wrote a paper on this. The same reason email scams are so bad.



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