# The Competence Singularity is Here
**URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-competence-singularity-is-here/5923
**Category:** The Happening World
**Tags:** scams, incompetence
**Created:** [8 May 2025 21:19 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-competence-singularity-is-here/5923 "2025-05-08T21:19:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [8 May 2025 21:19 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-competence-singularity-is-here/5923/1 "2025-05-08T21:19:32Z")
For long over a decade, I have commented on how the quality of scams has improved while the quality of legitimate services has decayed and eventually they would meet.
The main context was emails. There was a time when a legitimate email from a bank or credit card company would have zero grammatical errors and a scam email would have thirty. Then it was one and twenty, then two and ten…
Here’s Steve Lehto experiencing the same:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxfqQaY8iJ0)
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### Author:  [@Gerard](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gerard)
#### Post date: [9 May 2025 00:53 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-competence-singularity-is-here/5923/2 "2025-05-09T00:53:39Z")
I saw that earlier, on my own, without your link.
I was going to email Attorney Lehto and ask him to write me a check to test for problems.
(of course I would keep the money for my services)
But I doubt it would fly.
😉
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### Author:  [@Gerard](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gerard)
#### Post date: [19 March 2026 12:39 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-competence-singularity-is-here/5923/3 "2026-03-19T12:39:10Z")
Another example, via email, routed through " [firebaseapp.com](http://firebaseapp.com)", (a Google app), a notice to pay them because Google cloud storage exceeded limits.
All with perfect English, except for I don’t use google cloud storage, I turned off my storage of pictures on my phone on Google servers years ago.
While I have 3,506 emails stored on G-mail, it is only 18% of 17 GB used as per the tiny print report at the bottom of my G-mail web page.
Complaints to Google go unanswered it seems, as these sort of messages come several times a day.
They, Google, must be making money for the use of their “[firebaseapp.com](http://firebaseapp.com)”.
I had set up a filter on G-mail that if the email mentions “firebaseapp” anywhere, it should be routed to trash.
Still I worry as the email messages are downloaded by my “Thunderbird” email app, (program), and I don’t know if there is a hidden Trojan lurking in the trash folder.