If it is actually a malicious site trying to herd people toward exploitable behaviors it'd be following the Nigerian Scammer tactic of pre-screening by allowing simple errors to scare off more savvy inquiries.
This would go along with the rather crude emotional appeal.
That said, it hardly seems an efficient way to exploit people… though there are useful points. If you can get somebody credulous to use something that's compromised, and you're acting like a baleen whale and accumulating whole populations of credulous government-suspicious folks whom you've steered towards some mechanism where YOU can surveil them, that's got to have some usefulness.
People absolutely don't take into account the effectiveness of loosely manipulating entire populations in selective ways. You never need to select an individual and 'make' them take any action at all. You only have to cultivate the conditions for the outcome you want. Facebook might have discovered this first, but the idea sure caught on quick.
This would go along with the rather crude emotional appeal.
That said, it hardly seems an efficient way to exploit people… though there are useful points. If you can get somebody credulous to use something that's compromised, and you're acting like a baleen whale and accumulating whole populations of credulous government-suspicious folks whom you've steered towards some mechanism where YOU can surveil them, that's got to have some usefulness.
People absolutely don't take into account the effectiveness of loosely manipulating entire populations in selective ways. You never need to select an individual and 'make' them take any action at all. You only have to cultivate the conditions for the outcome you want. Facebook might have discovered this first, but the idea sure caught on quick.