I find it interesting that many of the spam emails I get offering me quick loans (usually on the order of a thousand or fifteen hundred or so) use the word “loot” in the subject line to describe the funds (e.g., “We’ve got the loot the get back in your bankroll!”). I wonder if this is a deliberate connotation of theft, or just a poor understanding of the historical meaning of the word on the part of the spammer?
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Perhaps the lexicon is simply purloined from World of Warcraft. Spammer, gold farmer, identity thief: the curriculum vitae of today’s Oriental freelancer.
I was going to say the same thing. Maybe when the writer was learning Engrish they learned the wrong definition for loot.
I have a deep respect for the creativity of the scammers. They are smart people even if they are getting the grammar a little wrong.
If anyone wants to read some excellent examples of Engrish, check out these comments, http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/1ed3bcc6-297c-4965-bcb6-d4ec23ba7d0f/bidet4me-easy-bidet-mb-2000-white-abs-bidet#15
It’s there to trigger the greed impulse. Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). These spam emails are deliberately written to warn off the warey and intelligent, and lure in the gullible and stupid. It’s a filtering mechanism to make sure that the spammers invest their person time in only the very dumbest marks.
Any chance those spam emails originated on Talk Like A Pirate Day?
No, No a thousand times NO! It’s all Oscama Loot! It’s hidden Stimulus Loot !