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Eh, it's more than likely a pig-butchering scam.
The groups that do these are rather unsophisticated and mostly don't speak english. It would make sense that their poor internet connections only have low quality photos and this is likely just one of many scams with equally-bad photos.
A decent quality photo isn't that big, even over dialup you can send a better one.
Yeah, but when they're dealing with possibly hundreds of these fake profiles they probably just go for the lowest quality they can get away with.
Even something like storage costs can add up pretty quickly in a 3rd world country.
For a pig butchering scam, a bad photo might actually make a lot of sense. If it looks like it might be a scam, only the most naive people will answer. That way, they can filter out anyone not in their target audience.
Yeah, they supposedly make deliberate spelling mistakes as well, to filter out the smart ones.