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I received an email this morning in the form of quite a long letter.
My correspondent informed me that he had taken over my computer, could follow my every key stroke, had read through all my files and planted viruses and Trojan Horses amd knew everything I was up to.
So far, so bad.
But the next paragraph, released the tension. He said he now knew all the naughty things I had been up to, the films I had taken of myself masturbating and doing other naughty things. he had them all and unless I paid up would send them to everybody on my Address list, and if I still didn't pay up would post it on the www.
Well, without discussing what I may or may not do in the privacy of my own home. the one thing I can assure you, I the one thing I would never do is film it on my computer. that is really risky.
Anyway the chap then blethers on with his blackmail threat and how much and how to oay.
In all a page full of rows of small print.
The main thing to realise is this is a scam. Whoever sent the letter does not have access to your computer, has not put viruses or trojan horses on it, has not seen anything you would not anyone to know or see and is just flying this blackmail threat to see who he can con.
If he really had done what he says he has done, then he wouldn't have wasted any time sending his email to me.
I've also received emails like this, once maybe twice. The first one gave me a moment of disquiet but soon realized it was a scam and deleted it.
I’ve had it too.
They also ask you to send Amazon/games vouchers etc.
Yes, today's You and Yours, was quite frightening. Mainly because many of the cases were not people being 'under a spell', but careful savvy people who knew the ropes and had made all the necessary checks, but were misled by, among other things, cloned websites for reputable banks.
However I listened to the prgramme yesterday and felt that the people there, intelligent but financially not knowledgeable people, did, at times, act very foolishly. I think they responded to a cold call, they did no searching to find out about the company, or even ask friends and relations about it and finally, encouraged to invest £100, when it grew to £400 in a week they saw this as encouragment to invest more. Surely most people would immediately be suspicious about such fast growth in such a short time and smell a rat, whether they were financiallknowledgea
I got it too (I get weird stuff all the time) and as I do for the rest, I posted it on my Facebook wall, and we had a good laugh about it. Just for the record, I also receive letters from Banks I didn't even know existed, telling me that someone tried to hack my account, and that I ought to verify my account number... etc etc etc.
I got one of those emails saying I'd been up to all sorts and the sender had it all on film! Nasty threats unless I paid money. It was hilarious! I might eat some cake in front of my computer occasionally when working but that's it.
The really funny thing is that I keep the camera lens covered unless I've got a Teams or Facetime call. Delete any message like that and forget it! It's pathetic and evil.
I once received an email from someone with a Russian sounding name.
He informed that one of my competitors in business was jealous of me and had hired him to " take me out " .However, this person said he was fed up doing others dirty work so he was going to deal with me for himself.
If I didn't pay an extortionate amount in Bitcoin, he was coming to chop both my hands off !!!
If I reported this then my family would forever be looking over their shoulders!!!
Of course, I immediately reported this to the relevant authorities.
A very nice chap was very sympathetic and confirmed it was a particularly nasty scam ( quelle surpris!)
He was very concerned about me being upset.
On the contrary, I was laughing my socks off.
I don't have any business, I don't have any money and , even if I had the foggiest what Bitcoin was I am such a technophobe that I would never be able to pay him. He'd more chance of me using a plane to parachute the ransom money into France !!!
I don’t know why people keep opening emails, texts from sources/senders they don’t recognize.
Opening these messages only opens more avenues for the scammers to get bolder and make more inroads. And pretty soon you are hacked‼️
When I see unfamiliar senders, callers… w/o opening or answering the phone… I delete, delete, delete.
I was hacked twice and had bank fraud (which thankfully my bank covered and changed my acct number) so this was a learned lesson long ago.
There are kid scammers doing this for a kick and joyride, and sophisticated overseas scamming operatives - you can’t let your guard down. Ever!
Maybe with enough of these exposés from GN, others will learn to be more careful. It’s only getting worse in this techno world.
I got this today. Reported as phishing scam.
I can only dream of my life being that exciting! If I got that message, I'd say bring it on mate, at least it would look like I was having some fun!
Gundy people whose names are not familiar to me get in contact regulalry because of some of the outside activities I am involved in. However I do not open any posts, until I have read them in the preview panel and can see their content. I can then delete any scam posts, and follow up those associated with my activities.
I have been online and using email for over 25 years. I have yet to fall for a scam. I am not saying it will never happen, but it is unlikely.
MOnica
I listened to that program. To be honest you’ve got to be pretty dim or greedy to think that there’s a legit investment company where £100 accumulated to £400 in a week.
The scammers convinced them to borrow £50,000 to invest 🤦🏼♀️
We received the same scam email this week, MOnica. We forwarded it to [email protected] and then deleted it.
DH was asked to pay $641 to keep his 'dark deeds' secret.
just send it to spam box or just delete it.
Exactly lemsip, but warn other people who may have reason to be frightened by it, that it is a scam.
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