• @tourist
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    5011 months ago

    why bother with the variations?

    think they’re hoping to knock the same victim more than once?

    messed up

    • Deebster
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      8311 months ago

      Maybe it’s an attempt to evade automated systems that check for spam.

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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      6611 months ago

      Probably a basic way to evade spam detection. If you start sending the exact same message to 500 people, most chat services will shut that shit down in an instant. But if you send unique messages, it makes you look more like a real person, and the chat system may let it slide.

      • @Adalast
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        911 months ago

        What’s bad is that modern spam detection can employ semantic algorithms so it would still catch all of them as the I’m as message. The use of synonyms in the optionals is a huge vulnerability in the scam.

        • Ephera
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          1111 months ago

          Well, it does not appear to be a terribly sophisticated system to begin with…

    • @[email protected]
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      2911 months ago

      So that their fixed script isn’t so predictable that we can just nuke them by looking for identical conversations.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      Could be to match the style of the target, to try and make the conversation feel more natural for them.