New spin on an old trick

[Markverhyden]

I'm sure everyone's seen these "I've been spying on you watching pr0n, pay me bit coin" emails. FYI I don't do any filtering on my email server. Like to see everything that's floating around in the wild. Got the below this morning in my personal email account. Of course that account will have other personal stuff attached. Like my address. And getting a picture is trivial these days thanks to google maps. I'm sure they'll be bagging a few with this one.

 

[britechguy]

I'm sure they'll be bagging a few with this one.

"They" always do, or it would not continue.

I just don't know why anyone would believe most of the scams out there, which have been repeated, and reported upon in the mainstream press, so many times that the basic formula should be known by any adult that is sentient enough to use the internet at all, and many who do nothing but watch TV.

An old trick that is another in the, "Delete it and get on with life," class.

 

[Larry Sabo]

"I want you to know I'm aiming for a win-win here, I am a man of my words." Hahahaha. I'll bet.

 

[callthatgirl]

oh god I bet they will send me a picture from one of my houses from 10 years ago lol. Hard to keep up with me!

 

[timeshifter]

I just don't know why anyone would believe most of the scams out there

Judging by how many webcams I see that have tape over them...

 

[britechguy]

Judging by how many webcams I see that have tape over them...

Well, if you don't use one, that's certainly not a problem from my end. It's an excess of caution, and probably unnecessary caution, but not an action taken during a panic triggered by some FUD-inducing scam.

Mine's not taped over, but I never use my webcam and very, very seldom use the microphone. Were both to be taped over and have been taped over, even if I were the most tech-illiterate person who'd done the taping, I'd know that you can't have snagged what was never snaggable.

 

[frase]

I'm sure everyone's seen these "I've been spying on you watching pr0n, pay me bit coin" emails. FYI I don't do any filtering on my email server. Like to see everything that's floating around in the wild. Got the below this morning in my personal email account. Of course that account will have other personal stuff attached. Like my address. And getting a picture is trivial these days thanks to google maps. I'm sure they'll be bagging a few with this one.

View attachment 16974

Hope the goats are safe.

 

[britechguy]

What I also find utterly confusing is why anyone would ever think, if this were actually real, that anyone who'd resort to blackmail would not keep coming back to the trough over and over and over again.

There's not been a blackmailer in history, or so few that one hand might count 'em all, that ever get rid of their leverage - ever.

 

[NviGate Systems]

The only camera attached to my system is a Microscope, so unless it's a photo of a PCB, meh.

It almost sounds like a hollywood con artist trying to be slick.

 

[GTP]

"I know ALOT about you"
Yeah you can tell they hardly ever attended school.

 

[GTP]

A new "new" spin on this scam. Someone has taken the time to print hundreds of these on A4 paper and posted them on walls, telegraph posts and windows all over the CBD in Adelaide.

People are already scanning the QR code to see what "James" has been doing!

 

[britechguy]

People are already scanning the QR code to see what "James" has been doing!

And what they'll "be doing" next! Whether they did it or not!

 

[NviGate Systems]

I smell a new reality show in the making.

 

[GTP]

And what they'll "be doing" next! Whether they did it or not!

"Dancing Pig Syndrome" in action...

 

[britechguy]

Dancing Pig Syndrome

That's a new one on me. In case it is to anyone else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs

 

[Markverhyden]

A new "new" spin on this scam. Someone has taken the time to print hundreds of these on A4 paper and posted them on walls, telegraph posts and windows all over the CBD in Adelaide.

People are already scanning the QR code to see what "James" has been doing!

That's one way to quickly collect a large number of functioning cellular numbers.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yeah seeing this new "spin" on the old sextortion scams quite a bit now.
Years ago when the sextortion scams started, since they had your common password in the email (from the LinkedIn breach)...they scared a lot of people. Now the house is doing similar...I've had quite a few people ask me about it in the past year or so.