[Despegar]

Well the they might be just a college student, but they could have a relationship with the actual target in some way. And if it's part of a complex operation they could be trying some indirect approaches.

[passion__desire]

Or maybe have a bigger blast radius so that it is difficult to know the exact targets. Drown the detection algos in the noise.

[ethbr1]

Exactly. If you're identifying targets by noisy proxy signals (geo/IP + behavior?) then you're going to have non-zero false positives.

[alwillis]

> Well the they might be just a college student, but they could have a relationship with the actual target in some way.

People who are "just" college students often are the sons and daughters of people who could be targeted. Not to mention people in their social circles.

[CPLX]

If you want to get someone to click a link or open a photo/video having it sent to them by their nanny for example would seem pretty effective.