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There's an interesting aside to this too. I was once having a beer with some friends and making the point that the scam emails we receive are often badly worded or have glaring mistakes in them and therefore they would fail. Then I had to look at it completely different when it was pointed out that the mistakes are there to weed out the intelligent people meaning that only the less "sharp" ones would reply to the scam.You are quite right.
The OP knows that 99% of readers will recognize the scam immediately, ridicule and move on.
However, they are counting on the less than one percent who may nibble.
Complete removal of these posts immediately is the only way to protect the unsuspecting and naiive few.
Put simply the mistakes are a filter mechanism which means that their potential marks are more likely to be easy victims.
Clever stuff!