blackmail email

I've been getting those sort of emails for a while, am I bothered?
Not a chance :)

Besides anything else it doesn't mention what device, and there is usually a mention of a webcam. I don't tend to have a webcam connected (and the emails started before I had one).
 
Are you new to the internet, this has been a scam for as long as I can remember.

I had one which amused me no end as I've never had a camera connected to my desktop and didn't have a laptop so they couldn't have any video of me "enjoying enormous amounts of pleasure"
 
fadsarmy said:
Would you be concerned if you received this email: [..]
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I've already received it a couple of times and I wasn't concerned. I won't be concerned if I receive it again, which will probably happen.

It's a well known scam. Better done than some scams, but just a scam. Send the same email to as many people as possible in the hope that some will fall for it. Even if only 1 in 50,000 targets fall for it, sending it to 500,000 people would be US$21,050 for the scammer. In many parts of the world that's a lot of money, especially for just a few minute's work scrawling an email. Or just copying it from somewhere else.

They probably haven't even compromised your email. All they need to do is obtain your email address. They don't need access to your email because all they need to do it send you an email. Why would they bother buying access to your email account, as they claimed to have done? That would be a pointless cost to them.
 
BowdonUK said:
Why do these people assume that their targets know how bitcoin works?
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I know this is what I don't get either, you have to be reasonable techy to have a bitcoin account or anything like that, so anyone that can do that would know straight away the email was ********?
 
If they really had all they claim they'd provide proof, ip address and actual specific sites etc, generic chancer message to safely ignore. Also maybe delete those pictures that made you think it might be real in the first place. :D
 
Engage full wind up mode, and post the responses (if any) here.

Otherwise, carry on browsing weird stuff.
 
Santoo said:
"Report the Bitcoin address as a scammer"
To whom?

The limit on creating Bitcoin addresses is very high, you can create trillions of addresses for your wallet. So the scammer can easily create billions of addresses for the billions of spams they are sending out.
In fact that is the way retailers accept Bitcoins, they ask you to send X amount to Y address, and that Y address is UNIQUE to you and your specific transaction. The retailer monitors that Y address for the payment. The address you send to is not used for anything else.
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I report bitcoin details for any scam mails to bitcoinabuse.com. They explain why its useful here: https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/faq
 
Absolutely nothing to worry about.

The last email I had of this type was sent to adobe@********.co.uk (I always give every online account it's own email address), so must have been a side effect of their data breach.

It's fascinating looking at where the real dodgy scam stuff originates, mainly I can track it back to data breaches, or online places that went out of business and I presume the owner was a douche and sold on the customer data for a few bucks..
 
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