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1764 points fatihky | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.459s | source
1. fasteo ◴[] No.12701510[source]
This reminds me of the infamous Nigerian emails. They are so obvious for a reason - avoiding false positives - [1]. Cannot fit this same scheme in a Senior position recruitment at Google though.

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-nigerian-scam-emails-are-o...

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2. olalonde ◴[] No.12703430[source]
> This reminds me of the infamous Nigerian emails. They are so obvious for a reason - avoiding false positives

Unrelated to the main topic but I wonder if email providers could effectively fight those scammers by having chatbots automatically reply to their emails. That would make a bunch of false positive to sort through and possibly make the whole thing uneconomical for the scammers.