OMG!!! My sordid secrets revealed!!!
 

I just received this email... :eek:

Hello! I am a hacker who has access to your operating system. I also have full access to your account.

I've been watching you for a few months now. The fact is that you were infected with malware through an adult site that you visited.

If you are not familiar with this, I will explain. Trojan Virus gives me full access and control over a computer or other device. This means that I can see everything on your screen, turn on the camera and microphone, but you do not know about it.

I also have access to all your contacts and all your correspondence. Why your antivirus did not detect malware?
Answer: My malware uses the driver, I update its signatures every 4 hours so that your antivirus is silent.

I made a video showing how you satisfy yourself in the left half of the screen, and in the right half you see the video that you watched.
With one click of the mouse, I can send this video to all your emails and contacts on social networks.
I can also post access to all your e-mail correspondence and messengers that you use.

If you want to prevent this, transfer the amount of $500 to my bitcoin address (if you do not know how to do this, write to Google: "Buy Bitcoin").

My bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) is: 3Ppwmb8jrgaRWHLUwh5J6sunmhp68AQ9FZ

After receiving the payment, I will delete the video and you will never hear me again. I give you 50 hours (more than 2 days) to pay.
I have a notice reading this letter, and the timer will work when you see this letter.

Filing a complaint somewhere does not make sense because this email cannot be tracked like my bitcoin address.
I do not make any mistakes.
If I find that you have shared this message with someone else, the video will be immediately distributed.

Best regards!

Actually, this is the second one like this I've received. It had me wondering about what I was satisfying myself about here on LugerForum. I was tempted to request the video, but it wouldn't show much...I don't have a PC camera or microphone... :D

It's amusing that the only adult sites I've visited lately were IMDB and Amazon...I was curious about the five Cheerleader movies on Lifetime cable this last Labor Day weekend. I watched about ten minutes of one...I didn't know Cheerleader movies were so boring... :rolleyes:

But I did find one amusing movie..."Happy Death Day"...No cheerleaders, but a college-student horror movie... :p

I guess I'll pass on the bitcoin extortion...I don't do bitcoin anyway... :roflmao:

I've gotten these extortion emails as well.
The sad thing is these must work at least once in a while or they'd stop sending them.
Much like the "Nigerian Prince" scams.

I feel neglected. I haven't gotten any such emails.

OTOH, I've been threatened by phone by the IRS to be arrested withing two hours if I didn't call them straight away.

Then there have been the calls from Microsoft Security asking for access to my computer. It confuses them when I ask "Which one?"

The latest one has been that my credit card was being charged $399 if I didn't call them immediately.

It's an interesting world.

I think it's a hoot when they tell me the "Mayor" is going to have me arrested. Like our Mayor has law enforcement power. I just have to laugh at these bozos.

I received a phone call from the IRS in Alabama requesting info because I was about to be charged with a crime. I instead visited my local IRS office and found there was no problem and had them block any future access to my account.

In France, we have the same problems and we receive the same messages!

Joël

I asked for my video so I could put it on Facebook myself, but they never delivered...

I've gotten the Nigerian emails in the past. I also get the phone calls that say I owe the IRS money, and to settle it, I simply have to send a MO to someone! :roflmao:
I reported both of these to my local sheriff's office.

Matt:cool:

I also still get Nigerian millionaire email scams, and the Microsoft phone-call security breach (or pirated O/S), please call yada yada immediately or they will disable my operating system. :rolleyes:

The only semi-believable phone calls I've gotten were from someone purporting to be from 'the electric company' telling me that I need to get out my latest electric bill and call them immediately. :)

Worked on a case recently where a gentleman has sent over $250,000 to scammers in the Caribbean. Amazing that people are still falling victim to this stuff in 2019.

-Brandon

When I opened my email, I was on both sides of the screen - apparently I’ve been satisfying myself by watching myself satisfying myself. I’ve sent copies to everyone I know.

Not to mention I appear to have bank accounts and credit cards everywhere and have to respond almost every week.

I've gotten that one (the OP email) any number of times, but what has been driving me NUTS lately has been SPAM bots that hit the contact form on my website.
Its been years since I've run my procmail recipes on my email stream, but SPAM has been going up recently so I may turn procmail back on. /dev/null is a good thing!

A crack team from Microsoft's Anti-Fraud Unit is presently engaged in tracking down this internet pirate...and saving the Earth from Martians as well... :D

At least he said "hello"

I am still waiting for:

(1) The IRS to come to my house to arrest me.

(2) Microsoft to completely shut down my internet access because my "license" expired.

(3) Social Security to cease all association with me due to fraud.

(4) I can't remember the other ones.....sorry!!



:grr:

I'm waiting on my pictures. :)

Let me ask a stupid question...If I did have a camera mounted on my laptop or PC, why would I aim it at anything other than my face??? And if I had a mic, what would it record??? :confused:

Got a new one today... :rolleyes:

Subject:
Your urgent reply as next of kin is highly needed.
From:
"Hon. Barrister James Willy" <test1@satam.eu>
Date:
10/31/2019 7:44 am
To:
undisclosed-recipients:;


Attention: sir/madam

I am J. Willy (a lawyer), my purpose of contacting you is for your consent
and/or help to secure and evacuate the funds left behind by my late client
to avoid its confiscation or declaration as none serviceable by the bank.
The fund is valued at $9,500,000.00. I know you may not actually be in
anyway related to him (my late client) but for sharing the same surname
with him makes it easier to get the funds to your name and/or have it
moved to your account for your access, our joint division and utility. Get
back to me for more details.

Best regards,
Hon. Barrister James Willy
Email; ( jameswilly@seznam.cz )

Yeah...No. My funds get evacuated just fine, Hon. Barrister, thank you.

I've gotten them from Janet Naploitano, Melania Trump, Donald trump, Christopher Wray of the FBI, Jayson Ahern of CBP, MG Timothy Lowenberg AG and "Military Department", among others.

Here's one I got from Donald trump recently:

To:you (Bcc) Details
GOOD NEWS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE:

I am President Donald J. Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States of America; and I am writing to inform you about your bank check, worth 10,000,000,00 USD that was brought to the White House, Washington DC by the White House Secret Service officers, allegedly coming from the government of Benin Republic but does not have any document attached to the package to back it up. The check was supposed to be delivered to your home address but due to the inconveniences encountered during the course of the delivery, it was brought here. I contacted the CIA Agency in Benin Republic and they told me that the check was sent from Benin Republic and to receive it legally you need to obtain an Affidavit of Ownership by paying a service fee of $117 USD to secure it from the High Court of Benin. The Affidavit of Ownership will certify that you are legally the beneficiary of the checks and the funds are not meant to sponsor any terrorist activity.

The information for making the payment is below:

Receivers Full Names: EVAN WADE
City & Country: COTONOU, BENIN REPUBLIC
Question: HOW LONG
Answer: ASAP
Amount: $117 USD

Evan Wade, once you resend the money to his name, will receive the payment and then the Affidavit of Ownership will be issued and signed; after which your bank check will be delivered to you legally. Once you make the payment, you are to send the payment details to me and I will send them to the Agency for pick up, thank you.

Endeavor to do as directed once you receive this email. God bless you and God bless America.

Yours Sincerely,
President Donald J. Trump,
President of the United States of America.

OMG - if I haftatell you!

I just keep sending them money from my huge stash of money that they sent me.

Hi,
Being retired and with time on my hands now and then. I like to play along with tel calls. Most emails I receive have ab email address with sometimes show the source country.Which xan also be a source of fun to play aroung when it's raining. :cheers:

Can I have his email address? I'd like to send him a note.
:cheers:

I hear you, Mike! This guy could make some nice contributions to our respective Luger funds!

The only thing that stopped him was us asking him to sign a "money mule" letter, basically stating that his money was being funnelled outside the United States to be used for nefarious purposes, and that if he continues to send money, he is knowingly financing a criminal organization, and is subject to prosecution.

Sometimes it's hard to stop the bleeding.

-Brandon

There used to be a web site called "The Scam Baiter" where people posted their correspondence with various scammers. The funniest one was a guy convincing a scammer to pay the shipping for "Anus laptops", and IIRC he eventually managed to have a toilet shipped to Nigeria at the scammer's expense. The original thread is long gone, but I found an archived part of it: http://postarchives.entensity.net/040105/scam.htm

Here's another good one about baiting the scammers: https://www.419eater.com/
Fair warning, you'll waste a lot of time here, much of it NSFW (but hilariously worth it.)

Uh, oh. I had a message on my phone answering machine yesterday. It said my internet access would be cut off today if I didn't pay my access fees. Please call 877-229-3394 to arrange payment. Have ISP bill and credit card info handy. :eek:

DING DING DING!!! Red Flag!!! My ISP already has my CC info, as it is a recurring charge. But a few years ago, they did cut me off because I had renewed my CC but forgot to call them and tell them the new expiry date.

So I called my ISP, just to be sure, and the nice young man told me yes, it was a scam. They had my current CC expiry and I was all good.

I Googled that number and there are loads of complaints/warnings about that number. Besides the CC scam, they also charge your phone number for calling them. Not just long-distant rates, but additional charges which by calling them you agree to.

So...They almost had me...Close, but no cigar... :rolleyes:

Oh oh...I just got another classic... :D

Your Abandoned Package For Delivery!!!
Interim Assistant General Manager, (Operations, Maintenance, Transportation) Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Address: 2400 Aviation Dr N, DFW Airport, TX 75261, USA Email: dfw.jimcarlos@gmail.com Hello , Your Abandoned Package For Delivery I am Mr. Jim Carlos, head of luggage/baggage storage facilities (Operations, Maintenance, Transportation) here at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. During my recent WITHHELD PACKAGE routine check at the Airport Storage Vault, I discovered an abandoned shipment from a Diplomat from Africa and when i scanned it, it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in a Metal Trunk Box weighing approximately 110kg. The consignment was abandoned because the Contents of the consignment was not properly declared by the consignee as "MONEY" rather it was declared as personal effect to avoid interrogation as well as, the inability of the diplomat to pay for the United States Non Inspection Charges which is $3,700USD. The details of the consignment including your name, your email address and the official documents from the United Nations office in Geneva are tagged on the Trunk box. However, to enable me confirm if you are the actual recipient of this consignment, I will advise you provide your current Phone Number and Full Address, to enable me cross check if it corresponds with the address on the official documents including the name of nearest Airport around your city. Please note that this consignment is supposed to have been returned to the United States Treasury Department as unclaimed delivery due to the delay in concluding the clearance processes so as a result of this, I will not be able to receive your details on my official email account. So in order words to enable me cross check your details, I will advise you send the required details to my private email address for quick processing and response. Once I confirm you as the actual recipient of the trunk box, I can get everything concluded within 48 hours upon your acceptance and proceed to your address for delivery. Lastly, be informed that the reason I have taken it upon myself to contact you personally about this abandoned consignment because I want us to transact this business and share the money 70% for you and 30% for me since the consignment has not yet been returned to the United States Treasury Department after being abandoned by the diplomat so immediately the confirmation is made, I will go ahead and pay for the United States Non Inspection Fee of $3,700 dollars and arrange for the box to be delivered to your doorstep Or I can bring it by myself to avoid any more trouble but you have to assure me of my 30% share. I wait to hear from you urgently if you are still alive and I will appreciate if we can keep this deal confidential. Please get back to me via my private Email:( dfw.jimcarlos@gmail.com) for further directives. Thanks, Mr. Jim Carlos Interim Assistant General Manager, (Operations, Maintenance, Transportation) Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Address: 2400 Aviation Dr N, DFW Airport, TX 75261, USA Email: dfw.jimcarlos@gmail.com

I'm pretty sure I've received a similar email some time ago...But I think I deserve more than 70%... :p

I'd see if he would go for a 90/10 split, in your favor of course. ;)

I've gotten a couple of phone scams lately (this year). One is the now-famous Amazon Customer Service representative who calls and says that a $749 charge is being made to my Amazon account and I need to contact the following number to resolve the issue blah blah. :rolleyes:

This one was on my answering machine today -

Quote:
Dear customer, this is an important notification call to you from billing department, this is to inform you that $99 is going to be charged from your checking account or plastic card, which is attached in our system, within 24 hours for the auto renewal of your subscription. If you want to cancel the subscription please call us immediately at support 239-230-3126 I repeat the number 239-230-3126 . If you are not the subscriber of PP Care Maintenance Service, please disconnect the call and call us at 239-230-3126, thank you and have a wonderful day.

A quick Google showed me it is another scam. I almost fell for it, as Road & Track magazine has been trying to get me to re-subscribe. But it's just another scam. :p

I get four or five calls a day that do not leave a message. I stopped answering the phone. I just wait for the call to end and star-69 it to see where it might be coming from. I doubt the reverse number is correct, but it gives me something to Google and confirm it's a scammer. :banghead:

The one I keep getting is the robo-call where they tell me that my cars warranty is about to expire. I played along the other day and pressed the # to speak to a representative about extending my warranty.

I thanked him three or four times about how nice they were to help me with my expiring warranty, and that no one has ever been that generous. I let him know how much I really appreciated them.

Then he asked me the year, make, and model of my car. And I replied: "1968 Ford Mustang". He asked again to confirm, as if possibly he had misheard the first time. After I repeated "1968 Ford Mustang, is there a problem?", he got mad and hung up.

Hmmm - wonder if that would also work for my '85 Mercedes Diesel...

Oh, oh - Here's one I just got tonight...

UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA - AFRICA'S GLOBAL BANK HEAD OFFICE ADDRESS UBA HOUSE 57 MARINA P.O. BOX 2406 LAGOS NIGERIA phone no: +234 706 815 3659 FAX: 234 674 478 8273 I Am Mr.Kennedy Uzoka the director cash processing united bank for African the international monetary fund (I.M.F.) in conjunction with Organization of African Unity (A.U) is compensating all the scam victims with $1.500.000.00USD and your email address was found in the scam victim's, the united bank for African and Federal Reserve Bank has been mandated by the (I.M.F) to pay your compensation ($1.500, 000.00USD) in cash through means of diplomatic courier service hand delivery. Take note that Three thousand united states dollars (usd$3,000) have been mapped out for all expenses in taxes and other documents that matters. Therefore, kindly forward your home address, direct phone number to the below email address mruzokauba56@aol.com) Regards, Mr Kennedy Uzoka Director cash processing unit United bank of Africa. (U.B.A). Phone no: +234 706 815 3659 mruzokauba56@aol.com

I'm going to be rich!!! Or at least have a couple thousand bucks... :rolleyes:

My wife received the same message on her cell phone as the OP in his initial post.

I told her it was a scam and not to worry about it.

I deleted it.

I got the OP's one about 3 weeks ago. I also got a phone call about 6 months ago from my "grandson" who was locked up in a Mexican jail after a car wreck. "Grampa, please send $1200 to the police here for my bail."
Trouble is my grandson is 7 years old and doesn't drive yet. He also doesn't have a passport and he calls me "Papa".

If the phone scam artists really wanted to reel me in, they would find a young girl who could imitate a Japanese accent/speech pattern, and say she was a 16 year old Japanese orphan who wants to emigrate to America and she will cook/clean/wash for me if I pay plane fare and take her in... ;)

I would gladly pay the plane ticket/send her the fare...It would fuel my dreams for weeks... :D

I've got more than one of those mails.
I never even open them, I simply trash them straight away.

I got one that said they had pictures of me they grabbed through my computer screen camera,
and I need to send money to keep from embarrassing my friends.

Made me wonder how they did it- you see - I don't have a camera in my computer screen! :)

Same thing happened to me.