ALL YOUR DATA HAS BEEN HACKED AND COPIED TO MY SERVERS

Sounds like he's the w****r. Do keep off those grown up websites though!!!

… and don’t forget, please don’t grumble! ?

A list of threatening behaviour then - wishing you all the best (but don't do anything stupid) like taking any notice.

And no composing!

Dumped straight in the trash, where it belongs

He/she chose the wrong person there then.

Do you think they meant Gransnet when they mentioned grownup websites?

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I had a similar email, worded differently but with much the same message. My first thought was "Go ahead and send any videos to my contacts because they won't be of me since my laptop camera has a cover over it."

What I actually did was to delete it - and the time limit for paying in bitcoin has passed with no further contact. Of course, I should have reported it.

Erotic loom knitting eh? Perhaps there.s a market for it. He's probably on to a good thing. DH used to repair computers for blokes at work. He said all the viruses he removed had come from porn sites they'd been accessing. He was always careful to avoid porn because of the risk.

About 20 years ago the police took DH's computer because they thought he'd been on a child porn site. I told the DI who took it that they would only find pictures of cats and Italy. He told me that he had searched hundreds and only ever found two that had no porn. When he brought it back (after four months!) he said "OK you were right, cats and Italy".

I had a similar email a while back. But as soon as I read the bit which said "I've been enjoying your filthy videos" then I knew it was a scam. I don't have, and never have had, any filthy videos! So I deleted it and the threats came to nothing.
What horrible people aren't they.

I had a similar, but more explicit, email a couple of weeks ago. I knew none of it was true and DH said there are thousands of messages like this on the internet, so little point in reporting it. Just deleted it. I also thought what horrible sad individuals the senders are.

Never open these emails delete straight away!!

It’s a funny one, someone is having a lend of you probably someone you know!

I never lend my tech to anyone nanna8 and it’s definitely not from anybody I know .

Lists of email addresses are bought and sold all the time. Every time you subscribe to something you’re on a list somewhere and potentially a target for spammers. I have a few email addresses that I use for various subscriptions. All my email addresses have filters and rules so anything suspect goes to a spam folder or straight to trash. None of my email addresses generate an automatic confirmation. I’ve worked in IT for long enough to know how to protect my devices.

I'm surprised you opened the email.

I had that a couple of years ago. Claimed he had photos of me wa***ing over adult sites he was going to distribute to all my address list including my employer (im self employed).

I dont have a camera on my desktop so he must have got the photos by psychic means.

The most dodgy site I visit is BBC News.

Do these people think we are stupid???

Never open a dodgy email

If he could target the right people to tell them that he could broadcast their ‘personal pleased face’ it might deter some of the w***ers from using ‘grown up’ sites. Very amusing scam.

We now sort of accept these scammers, hackers, phishers, etc, as an inevitable everyday nuisance.

But when you think about it, they are just as criminal as a burglar who breaks into your home and steals your property - the only difference is that they can't physically beat you up.

I wonder if there will ever be the technology to root out these individuals? I'd like to see them imprisoned... a good long stretch behind bars - with no access to any kind of technology - might give them time to reflect.

The more we are compelled to rely on IT etc, the more damaging they are. Banks want us to do our banking online, yet have been slow to respond to the various scams that even educated and 'clever' people can sometimes fall victim to.

What I mean is, I hope eventually that these low-life (where have I heard that phrase before are treated less as a 'nuisance' and more as the dangerous criminals that they are.

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