Scam email received today

[JoanThursday1972]

I received this rubbish in my inbox today. I know it is a pack of lies, because the bit in bold, well, I am too busy to do that.

How many people have actually fallen foul of these nutcases?

Email content follows:

I'm a prof. hacker and have successfully managed to hack your operating system. Currently I have gained full access to your account. In addition, I was secretly monitoring all your activities and watching you for several months.
The thing is your computer was infected with harmful spyware due to the fact that you had visited a website with porn content previously.

Let me explain to you what that entails. Thanks to trojan viruses, I can gain complete access to your computer or any other device that you own.
It means that I can see absolutely everything in your screen and switch on the camera as well as microphone at any point of time without your permission.
In addition, I can also access and see your confidential information as well as your emails and chat messages.

You may be wondering why your antivirus cannot detect my malicious software.
Let me break it down for you: I am using harmful software that is driver-based,
which refreshes its signatures on 4-hourly basis, hence your antivirus is unable to detect it presence.

I have made a video compilation, which shows on the left side the scenes of you happily masturbating, while on the right side it demonstrates the video you were watching at that moment...

All I need is just to share this video to all email addresses and messenger contacts of people you are in communication with on your device or PC.
Furthermore, I can also make public all your emails and chat history.

I believe you would definitely want to avoid this from happening.
Here is what you need to do - transfer the Bitcoin equivalent of $530 to my Bitcoin account (that is rather a simple process, which you can check out online in case if you don't know how to do that).

Below is my bitcoin account information:
1NUvPKK8j6Po9aGNZ8rYPSVkVBr2dkwgEE

Once the required amount is transferred to my account, I will proceed with deleting all those videos and disappear from your life once and for all.
Kindly ensure you complete the abovementioned transfer within 58 hours (2 days +). I will receive a notification right after you open this email, hence the countdown will start.

Trust me, I am very careful, calculative and never make mistakes.
If I discover that you shared this message with others, I will straight away proceed with making your private videos public.

That’s such an old one.

Interestingly, when it hit our work years back, most of the blokes were on edge about it while the women just went ‘huh, as if’ and carried on with their day.

I get these loads except mine usually mentions the disgusting content I'm apparently watching whilst I'm getting myself off. I know it's bollocks though as I don't watch porn so it's an easy ignore for me.

If they switched on the camera on my laptop they'd be bored silly within 30 seconds.

Yeah I received one talking about the porn I had been watching , load of rubbish , just ignore and delete .

Mine complemented me on my choice of videos I watch. I was particularly impressed with his skills as I didn't at that point posses a computer. Oddly enough nothing happened once the time counted down. Closest I get to porn is food porn, I'm a sucker for a baking video.

Yes I got one this week, reported it and hopefully blocked.

I get these emails and I said to dp it's no wonder I'm knackered the amount of porn I'm watching and masturbating I'm doing😁

I’ve had many of these in the past few years
total chancers- although I guess some folk must fall for it ( those who watch porn on their laptop maybe )

It really preys on people's anticipated embarrassment and humiliation. Surely there must be some cyber crime agency that deals with this shit? These people should be put in prison. I can just imagine a teen boy receiving this shit, believing it and it being a contributing factor to suicide.

Quite apart from the impossibility of catching me watching porn, I'm going to be bloody amazed at them turning on a camera that I don't have (desktop!) because I have never needed one.

But yeah, I get this one about three times a year and for several years now, into the conveniently not real email address that I use to sign up to various things I wouldn't want having my real one!

Time for a chat with the teenage DS. Not that he watches p (IMHO) but…

I always reply with 'go ahead, nobhead'

Extremely verbose version of something I received years ago. I imagine many people might fall asleep before even finishing it! Mine was really cheesy. ‘Hmm, interesting tastes you have!’

As others say, easy to ignore if it’s 100% wrong but I imagine it does scare a lot of recipients at least a little as it works along the same lines as those texts about compensation for ‘the accident you had recently’ - and I know a few people who have been taken in by those!

Poor hacker would be so bored with my browser activity.

Gmail
Mumsnet
Mumsnet
Mumsnet
Gmail
Google Docs (work)
(work)
(work)
(work)
Guardian
Mumsnet
[45 minute pointless rabbit hole about the Nile river, GCSE choices or Korean restaurants in some random city I have never been to}
(work)
(work)
Gmail
Mumsnet
(work)
(work)
(work)
etc.

We had a scam text from Barclays Bank middle of the night. Yeah right
At Midday we checked. Oh! it really was about a payment I had set up and wanted it paid.
Better Safe than sorry dear, is wot I say.
Ho Hum

Years ago, i found a load of blackmailing ransom-demanding emails in my spam folder. They had lain there unseen for months & months, repeat escalating versions.

And the best part is... they had my actual email password!! They really did. But evidently had done nothing with it, no identity fraud, no accounts hacked into, no money stolen, nothing. Even though they threatened to do all this horrible stuff. The bots got nowhere with actually harming me.

I changed my pwd & carried on my life.

Had that one loads of times.

Had that a couple of years ago. Mate, if you think my FB and email contacts are going to be interested in vids of classical music and 60s pop, crack on.

Report and block.

Sadly you're right it happened to young lad in Scotland , jumped from a bridge .

I was complimented on the videos I was having "one off the wrist" to.

If they had really looked at my screen and cam, the most exciting thing they would have seen was a screen full of program code and me puzzling over why it wasn't doing what it was meant to. 🤷‍♂️

It really preys on people's anticipated embarrassment and humiliation.

I don't know whether this is an urban myth, but pre-internet I read that someone in Japan used to send anonymous letters to people in their town along the lines of 'I know what you did. Leave (amount of money) at X place and I won't tell anyone.'

Very psychologically astute because everyone has something they've done they are ashamed off and in Japan face is everything. IIRC they made a tidy sum before being caught.