i kinda freaked out over a scam email

[SethInMI 156]

a little embarrassed to admit i had about 5 min of minor panic this morning getting a scam email that had a password i have used in the subject line, and an assertion that porn i watched in a hacked website will sent to email addresses from my hacked computer email program unless i paid $1900.

normally i would just discard a scam email, but that password got me a bit freaked out, and i spent about 5 min thinking:

1. is this legit? it can't be? how did this happen, etc

2. if it is legit, i'm not paying, and let me imagine the worst case and how it would play out.

so after 5 min or so of that, i re-read the email more closely, and realized that it made a few claims that were too far fetched. then i did what i should have done right away, and copy / pasted the 1st paragraph text into google. hey, it is a massive email scam that just went out today, based on email / passwords stolen from some "normal" website, and just delete it and move on.

i felt a little sheepish that i didn't see it right away, but hey, i don't get notified about  old passwords i used very often. i also feel a bit sorry for someone who actually paid out after reading that email, cause, well people shouldn't have to be that worried over what porn they watch, or what they do while watching, to pay someone to keep it from their social network.

so this weekend, i'll raise a beer to me, to porn, to freakiness, and not worrying where the chips fall.

Seth

 

[riggerrob 598]

Yes,

I got the same e-mail scam yesterday: “we turned on your webcam the last time you watched porn .... jerked off .... send money ...”

Good thing I am still a Luddite who looks at old-fashioned magazines ...

[Nataly 38]

I got the same thing.  It was also my "real" password, but for me the dead giveaway was that it's the default password that I use on ALL dodgy or potentially untrustworthy sites...

So I just responded by telling them to go ahead and share my porn video widely - people deserve to have their spirits lifted during this difficult confinement period :)

Didn't get a reply to that, for some reason!!

 

[SethInMI 156]

5 hours ago, Nataly said:

people deserve to have their spirits lifted

if i thought that seeing my naughty bits would have a chance of raising anyone's spirits, i would have posted in the "naked post whore glory" thread.

oh wait, i did.

the pics of that shit are all apparently gone now, along with the boobie thread pics, so some spirits are crushed.

Edited April 28, 2020 by SethInMI

[turtlespeed 212]

11 hours ago, SethInMI said:

if i thought that seeing my naughty bits would have a chance of raising anyone's spirits, i would have posted in the "naked post whore glory" thread.

oh wait, i did.

the pics of that shit are all apparently gone now, along with the boobie thread pics, so some spirits are crushed.

It is a true shame about that.

[yoink 321]

On 4/28/2020 at 2:15 AM, Nataly said:

I got the same thing.  It was also my "real" password, but for me the dead giveaway was that it's the default password that I use on ALL dodgy or potentially untrustworthy sites...

So I just responded by telling them to go ahead and share my porn video widely - people deserve to have their spirits lifted during this difficult confinement period :)

Didn't get a reply to that, for some reason!!

 

Replying to these emails is the absolute worst thing you can do. It tells the scammer there's a real person reading the emails and that it's a monitored email address.

If nothing else, that person can now sell your email to another criminal as a verified email address they might want to target with a different scam, or use in other nefarious ways. It's a real economy in the dark web.

 

Just delete it.

 

Edited April 30, 2020 by yoink

[SethInMI 156]

9 hours ago, yoink said:

Replying to these emails is the absolute worst thing you can do.

to be correct, paying the scammer would be the absolute worst thing you could do. committing suicide in despair would also be a candidate for the absolute worst thing

[Nataly 38]

On 4/30/2020 at 5:23 AM, yoink said:

Replying to these emails is the absolute worst thing you can do. It tells the scammer there's a real person reading the emails and that it's a monitored email address.

If nothing else, that person can now sell your email to another criminal as a verified email address they might want to target with a different scam, or use in other nefarious ways. It's a real economy in the dark web.

 

Just delete it.

 

It's a spam email...  I expect spam on it

[turtlespeed 212]

3 hours ago, Nataly said:

It's a spam email...  I expect spam on it

Which fetish were they focusing on?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[flyhi 24]

You guys are low rent. They wanted $5K from me in bitcoin. Obvious fake since it said it got me on my webcam (Don't have one.) Also, figured if it was real, they would have given some hard evidence like a screen shot. Deleted. Next!

[Nataly 38]

On 5/3/2020 at 5:36 PM, turtlespeed said:

Which fetish were they focusing on?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Accountants wearing glasses and doing paper-based tax returns...  Sooooo deviant...

[turtlespeed 212]

On 5/16/2020 at 6:41 AM, Nataly said:

Accountants wearing glasses and doing paper-based tax returns...  Sooooo deviant...

I can see that . . .

 

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