Anyone who did that to me would be really disappointed to find out I’m 20,000 emails behind and I will get to their fake attack by about the year 2190.
Damn, I’m falling behind. Only 19,409 unread emails. At work, anyway.
You obviously sleep too much.
You should emulate Elon Musk. Work 24 hours per day. never sleep. Become delusional. Post nonsense on Facebook. Get sued by the SEC. Lose your job. Now you can sleep!
Hey I got an email too, on a very old e-mail with an old password, no bitcoins from me though, they want cold hard cash… and while they might have some of my information, they clearly don’t know I’m a lady or the threat would seem ridiculous.
That’s too funny Nesrie! Call their bluff!
But what if they really do bring down the patriarchy?
Yeah, my wife got one of these. We had a good laugh at the idea of this tool threatening to expose her non-existent porn watching habits as a threat.
Somebody found a list of poorly secured passwords and is trying to monetize it using the least amount of effort possible. I’ve heard this sort of amateurish crap is bizarrely effective because it weeds out all but the most gullible at the beginning.
But do change your passwords.
As far as you know, anyway!
Haha. I was tempted. I am sure it was a mass mailing, and any reply confirms it’s a working email whereas right now, they can’t be sure. I kind of want to see what random ass video they’d send. Even inf they shocked some family members, most my friends would find it humorous when they claimed that was me.
Just like the Nigerian scam, they only need a couple to make it worth their while. The thing that scares people is it’s clearly real. It came from some old data somewhere.
I got a long email today. It was to my main email address. It had a password of mine. It basically said that the person had hacked my computer and was using a camera to videotape me masturbating to porn. They want me to send them 20,000 bitcoins. They have all of my Facebook contacts and they will send them all copies of the video and completely embarrass me.
This computer is not used for porn. Furthermore, its search history is pristine. The camera is focused on my face. No lower.
While my email and the password are legit, the rest is bullshit. I assume that someone got the info from one of those hacks that expose info from millions of people. After research I can’t find any site that uses that password. Just to be careful I changed my Facebook password. Then I marked the email as spam. I guess I’ll know what the repercussions are tomorrow.
I’ve gotten a few of those. I always invite them to go right ahead since I’m an exhibitionist and the idea of everyone watching me masturbate is pretty exciting (none of that is true…I don’t think, anyway).
Also, 20,000 bitcoin is $195,000,000 plus change at the current exchange rate. I don’t think they’ve thought this all the way through.
Yeah I thought the price was a bit high. And when I tried to highlight and copy the text, it turns out that the paragraphs are images. So cut and paste your ransom note. Like the good old days. :)
I get these stupid things like every day. I so badly want to respond and trail them along (I don’t even have a camera). Maybe I’d say, “Hey I can’t do bitcoin but meet me at x and x place and I’ll give you all the money you want. I’m so scared!” Have it be right next to the FBI office. Bwahahaha!
I see you replying Jeff. No. I will not tell you where and how I masturbate. You are not healthy enough to know the secrets. :)
I’m still waiting for someone to release my video, you know, the one with me and a penis. It would pretty damn funny for something like that to show up in my social circle.
No worries Rich, these are old hacks, really old but yes they were legit once; the info was real.
Understood.
What bothers me the most is not really knowing which hack it was. I mean I used to get at ton of these so sorry, we lost your account, oh wells, we won’t do much to do better… there were so many of them.
I keep getting warnings about someone using my Spotify acct. Thing is I haven’t used Spotify in many years. There is no credit card info involved. No money. So if they want my playlists, I hope they enjoy them. I have great taste in music. :)
So you’re saying you have another computer with a webcam that is dedicated to this alleged behaviour?
Figure out your own self pleasuring setup. Pervert.