I would never dismiss a letter from any organisation as being fake purely on the basis that it was badly written. I may only have a 36 year old O level in English but even I could produce better letters than some of the 'official' crap I get through the post. A year ago when I was going through an ATOS/DWP appeal some of the stuff I got from the DWP was barely even literate and the written report from the ATOS assessor would have bought shame on a dyslexic 11 year old.FatGambit wrote: The Grammar in it alone is enough to give away that it wasn't typed by anybody at Barclay's, I've never had a letter from a bank titled Good news!
I get the feeling that a lot of organisations deliberately encourage what they think is a 'professional' or 'business-like' standard of English rather than plain, comprehensible and correctly spelt English. I have actually seen a business letter go out from the sales director of the last company I worked for that contained the execrable "I would like to thank yourselves for visiting ourselves..." God only knows what the unlucky recipient thought.