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I thought it was a deliberate technique on the part of scammers to use bad grammar/spelling in order that their marks self-select for people that are less intelligent/educated etc It is plausible that the scammer actually has excellent diction.
Wait a moment. I can agree that it's a "common sense" guess that
P(bad spelling | less education) >> P(bad spelling)
but what that "technique" would imply is:
P(finds text with bad spelling belivable | less education) >> P(finds text with bad spelling belivable)
...which is kinda more interesting. So to speak.