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Seems like the Nigerian Prince bayesian model as analysed by Microsoft. Due to many false positives within the thousands of potential responders pool, they emit a signal that only a real easy victim would fall for to reduce the costs of their final filtering process.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...



It was a very enjoyable read for a scientific publication.




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