I've received a disgusting extortion email

Ive had awful messages, from a debt collecting agency, but have never had debt so delete. Had the usual mom Ive lost my phone, delete, another from a mental hospital saying my daughter has been admitted onto a ward and to contact them immediately, delete. I found tgem all very upsetting, but now i report and delete.

I have had loads of these blackmail type emails, they really must be sad excuses for humanity.
Treat them with the contempt they deserve.

I doubt it's possible for a week to go by these days without some little or two sending a scam email or making a scam phonecall to me. I think the worst thing about it is probably just how disillusioned it's making me with the human race - as there's clearly so many thieves out there.

Yep....it is the spam folder these thieves emails seem to turn up in. I delete them when I realise it's yet another one of them and there is a thing there that automatically deletes emails after 30 days anyway.

These thieves seem to have it as a deliberate modus operandii to try and have a sense of urgency built-in to the scam. What they want is for people to go into panic mode and think "Gotta deal with this - now...now....now" before their rational mind has time to click in and tell us that it's nonsense.

There are several books out on the way these scammers work and I've currently bought one that I think covers the ground pretty well - and he makes the point trying to inject a sense of urgency is one of their tactics.

It's "How to beat scammers - the complete guide to keeping yourself from fraud" - by Nick Stapleton.

These characters are a real nuisance and time-wasters. Don't forget to keep an eye out for the ones that turn up with a "friend" request on Facebook as well. My first "port of call" when I get an FB friend request is to see if I share several FB friends with them (though I've certainly noticed once or twice that an FB friend of mine has the scammer down as a friend - and so it's not an infallible method of weeding them out).

you didn't 'receive it it went straight to your spam which shows you have good security! if you hadn't looked at your spam you would not have known!

I do check my spam to make sure nothing important to me is in there though

Sadly my emails now bounce back from [email protected] with an automated email saying that my email is a source of phishing!

I had a similar one about 3 years ago, saying if I don't pay up £900.00 in 24 hours they'd distribute videos of me doing personal sexual things with myself which includes self bondage etc. they've seen me doing from my laptop webcam and they'll send the videos to all my family and housemates!

I killed myself laughing! For starters, I have a black dot over my webcam as I don't do self-made video stuff and I'm not into porn or bondage or self-sexual stuff of any type AND I have absolutely no family of any sort, I've only ever lived alone, I've never lived with anyone!

I didn't reply in any way, just blocked and reported!

These sicko's that create and send these awful emails are no doubt bored pimply brainless teenagers with no friends and no life!

I feel like responding and saying, Go ahead, make my day!

But obviously not....

And I'm ALWAYS as in several times a week getting emails saying I've won millions on various lotto's - I don't do lotto's as I'm not a gambler at all, I've got parcels being delivered by Evri -which I've not ordered - eBay, Amazon and others want to thank me for ordering their goods but I've never shopped with eBay/Amazin etc. !

I get phone texts saying a parcel is being delivered but the address is incorrect so they need my details to deliver it!

I've also had those from DVLA saying the license for my motorbike is out of date - I've never had a motorbike, I hate them!

Oh and government ones saying I'm entitled to £60.00+ added to my PIP or Universal Credit but I'm not claiming either of those!

And also saying something about my child's school needs to contact me but I have no kids by choice!

AND I even had one ages ago from some company saying as I divorced my husband 43 years ago they need to see and check my divorce papers! Forty-three years ago divorced would have made me 16 at the time of the divorce - I've never married!

Others saying my parents hate me and are not having anything to do with me so just send loads of cash to the email creators and they can get my parents to love me again! -I have no parents -!

In once way or another all these emails/texts want money or to worry me! They won't get it from me and they don't worry me! Blocked and reported!

It's a hit or miss thing, like when they tell you that your HSBC Canada account has had suspicious activity, or that your PayPal Account has been hacked and you need to rectify the situation, and you have neither one not the other, or that they are awaiting personal details for delivery of a package.

I think I can beat everyone on here.
Yesterday I had an email from Elon Musk !!

It said he is giving away millions of dollars randomly, and my email address came up as one of the recipients.

How lucky am I?!!

JenniferEccles

I think I can beat everyone on here.
Yesterday I had an email from Elon Musk !!

It said he is giving away millions of dollars randomly, and my email address came up as one of the recipients.

How lucky am I?!!

When do you get the money?

Don’t spend it all at once! 🤣

It would have upset me too even though you know it’s a scam, there are some really vile people out there hope you are okay and remembered to block the contact 💐

I've gone through spam folder and reported everything one at a time as phishing. Haven't had any spam since. Took time but was worth it

I’m awaiting the money!
Have mentally spent it already!

I've had these type of e-mails before; I just deete them straight away after marking the message as SPAM,

It's obvious that these are spam e-mails because the sender never adresses the recipient by name

I check my junk mail every day because my security on my laptop filters emails from sources that are not in my address book and puts them automatically in junk. I then mark as 'not spam' and in future the emails go to my inbox. Anything suspicious or that I am not expecting is deleted without opening.

We all know one deletes them.