{"id":38730,"date":"2017-05-29T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T14:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38730"},"modified":"2017-05-29T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T14:03:27","slug":"using-nigerian-spam-techniques-to-build-your-audience-and-reliably-broadcast-your-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/29\/using-nigerian-spam-techniques-to-build-your-audience-and-reliably-broadcast-your-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Nigerian spam techniques to build your audience and reliably broadcast your message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing set of tweets from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Popehat\" target=\"_blank\">Popehat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Okay. Theory: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouiseMensch\">@louisemensch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrueFactsStated\">@truefactsstated<\/a> are using a Nigerian email technique. To wit: weeding out non-imbeciles. \/1<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PopehatWitchHunt (@Popehat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Popehat\/status\/866034902180913152\">May 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouiseMensch\">@LouiseMensch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrueFactsStated\">@TrueFactsStated<\/a> Nigerian scammers include bad spelling, grammar, and logic to weed out non-dupes quickly and narrow responses to the stupidest dupes.  \/2<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PopehatWitchHunt (@Popehat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Popehat\/status\/866035142392815617\">May 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouiseMensch\">@LouiseMensch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrueFactsStated\">@TrueFactsStated<\/a> Similarly, these are are gratuitously salting their rumors with impossible nonsense not out of stupidity, but calculation&#8230;..\/3<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PopehatWitchHunt (@Popehat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Popehat\/status\/866035459306041344\">May 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouiseMensch\">@LouiseMensch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrueFactsStated\">@TrueFactsStated<\/a> They&#39;re doing it to weed out critical thinkers or the relatively normal, to build a core base of reliably credulous morons. \/4<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PopehatWitchHunt (@Popehat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Popehat\/status\/866035779348250624\">May 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouiseMensch\">@LouiseMensch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrueFactsStated\">@TrueFactsStated<\/a> Once they&#39;ve removed all the working bulbs from the box, they can count on the dim remainder to be reliable distributors of any message. \/5<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PopehatWitchHunt (@Popehat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Popehat\/status\/866036188938817536\">May 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing set of tweets from Popehat: Okay. Theory: @louisemensch and @truefactsstated are using a Nigerian email technique. To wit: weeding out non-imbeciles. \/1 &mdash; PopehatWitchHunt (@Popehat) May 20, 2017 @LouiseMensch @TrueFactsStated Nigerian scammers include bad spelling, grammar, and logic to weed out non-dupes quickly and narrow responses to the stupidest dupes. \/2 &mdash; PopehatWitchHunt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[593,310],"class_list":["post-38730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-socialmedia","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a4G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38734,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38730\/revisions\/38734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}