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Originally Posted by mithrandir
They don't expect to catch intelligent people. Remember PT Barnum: "There's one born every minute". One victim per million emails would probably keep them happy.
IQ tests are supposed to be standardised to give a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. A bit of statistics gives 15% of the population fall below IQ 85. 2% below 70. It is those people the scammers expect to hit.
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au contraire Andrew.
Supposedly intelligent people have been caught up in scams, many times, as many scams are quite sophisticated, such as the classic "ponzie schemes". One of the biggest scams that catch out supposedly intelligent people are the "love" scams. It isn't just those of low IQ that get caught but those that have vulnerabilities as well.
Yes, many scams are targeted at those that are not so smart, but I feel that may be an oversimplification of scammers targets, as we are all targets, just depends on how good the scam is.
Cheers Peter