<story><title>How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion</title><url>http://theonion.github.io/blog/2013/05/08/how-the-syrian-electronic-army-hacked-the-onion/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>leeoniya</author><text>&amp;#62; &quot;Please read the following article for its importance&quot;&lt;p&gt;This immediately hit my brain&apos;s bayesian classifier like a ton of bricks. Or as the saying goes, &quot;If spammers ever learn proper English, god help us all.&quot;&lt;p&gt;* the English &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; actually proper, but the wording is unusual</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phillmv</author><text>It doesn&apos;t work for spear phishing, but for wide-ranging hits the broken english is often on purpose: &lt;a href=&quot;http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/whyfromnigeria.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/whyfromnigeria.pdf&lt;/a&gt; :: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/aug/31/why-nigerian-email-scams-work/transcript/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/aug/31/why-nigerian-email-sca...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;tldr: you have a lower number of leads but a higher conversion rate from those that do respond.</text></comment>
<story><title>How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion</title><url>http://theonion.github.io/blog/2013/05/08/how-the-syrian-electronic-army-hacked-the-onion/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>leeoniya</author><text>&amp;#62; &quot;Please read the following article for its importance&quot;&lt;p&gt;This immediately hit my brain&apos;s bayesian classifier like a ton of bricks. Or as the saying goes, &quot;If spammers ever learn proper English, god help us all.&quot;&lt;p&gt;* the English &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; actually proper, but the wording is unusual</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eliben</author><text>+1, this phrasing immediately triggers my brain&apos;s spam alert. It&apos;s not simply a &quot;familiar&quot; kind of phrasing friends or teenagers would use to make communication shorter - it&apos;s just that kind of mistake scam emails tend to be full of, for some reason.</text></comment>