Email scams.
It seems that every day now, some prince somewhere is looking for my assistance to smuggle large amounts of cash out of his country, all he needs is access to my bank account, any he is willing to reward me handsomely. But I'm wary because Microsoft engineers with dodgy accents keep phoning my about viruses on my computer.
I know to ignore these scammers but sometimes if I'm bored I might play along for a while to phis them off but I guess there's an idiot everyday that is taken in by these scams, and there is a convincing new scam out there that worries me.
This email appears to come from your own email address, it is well worded, convincing you that your system has already been hacked and that they have been watching you for a few months. It quotes a password that you have used in the past. Claims that they have a splitscreen video from your webcam of you pleasuring yourself and the contents of your screen at the time. This video will be forwarded to all your contacts unless you pay a small ransom in bitcoin within 48 hours.
If you pay the ransom the very nice blackmailers will delete all the info on you. But they can see all the activity on your computer and if you try to contact anyone for help, they will release your video straight away.
It is a lazy scam, hoping to profit from those easily panicked, they have not hacked your system, they are using info hacked years ago in some large data breaches, and some fancy fingerwork to appear to be emailing from your own address.
Ignore this email or contact the authorities. they have nothing on you and we all pleasure ourselves in front of the computer with a tub of peanut butter,so it is nothing to be ashamed about.
Last edited by philipkntz; 10-01-19 at 09:53.
To anyone that doesn't like me here.
I hope you need to pee 3 times tonight, but that you only wake up twice.
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