Just received an exceptionally nasty threatening email... spam

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I am not worried not least because I don't view porn or perform solitary sex acts in front of my computer.... however of all the nasty emails I've ever received this is possibly the worst!!

If anyone gets something like this please don't worry it's a very nasty blackmail attempt by someone who doesn't have the material they claim.

I am posting it below so that if anyone else does get it they can see they're not alone and there's no need to be upset by these people. I know for some people this could be very distressing

I've had this email many times over the years, in a few variations. Apparently they have seen me do lots of bad things with my penis that I do not have.

I got this one recently. I posted a screenshot of it on my Instagram and told my friends I hoped they enjoyed watching

If someone wants to watch me eating a creme egg while watching slo-mo edits of Gérard Butler with his top off, I'll send you the video myself. Complete with 6 chins and probably a clear view up my nostrils. So sexy, and the watchers would be more embarrassed than me anyway 🤣

Ah as others said this is an old one. I recall my husband getting one a few years back, he was highly amused by the thought of it.😂

It feels like such a long time ago since it was mostly courteous Nigerian princes with a lot of money they wanted to transfer to your bank account...

I am slightly charmed that I now get text message spam in Irish.

The sad thing is some people just won't take the risk on this and will panic pay,".

Horrible people that do this.

@DanceMove I rather miss the emails from the Nigerian aristocracy as well - at least they sparked a little hope and a smile even if you knew they were complete and utter bollocks!

Good news is I've just won $3000 dollars in bitcoins so I should be able to pay off the £900 and still be sitting pretty - though it looks like it was sitting pretty that got me in this terrible mess in the first place!

I've had a few over the years but got one a few weeks ago that worried me. It said all the usual stuff about having films of me masturbating etc which was a load of old rubbish but then they said they knew my password was.... And they put a password I use all the time for multiple different things! So somehow they have git hold of my favourite password. That concerned me a lot more than their ridiculous threats.

I got one with my name and postal address on it!!! Frightened the life out of me. Can't imagine how I would feel if I did incidentally get it on with myself in front of my camera!!

Well, maybe the entire Nigerian aristocracy are too busy watching @InTheShallowTheShalalalalalalalow enjoying herself with a Creme Egg and Gerard Butler to write to us any more.

This is indeed a nasty scam, but then scammers are inherently nasty, immoral people, so that's only to be expected. Even when they turn on the charm, it's all an act, based on the angle they take for their scam and the result they hope to achieve.

There was a woman on Scam Interceptors who was being scammed, when the team managed to find her and get in touch. The scammer, having spent a lot of time on their ruse, asked her to type her bank balance into her on-screen calculator - just so they could know how much to scam her for. It turned out that the woman didn't have very much money at all, so they just angrily exclaimed in their own language that it wasn't worth their time as they hung up on her - one of the interceptor team happened to speak the same language as the scammers.

One of the most bizarre ones that I had was supposedly from the Metropolitan Police, accusing me of having viewed/downloaded child abuse images - so not 'just' very embarrassing but otherwise legal activities, as in this thread. Obviously, if I had done the vile things that they claimed they had proof of, it would have been clearly illegal and very serious - but the Met was apparently happy to completely let me off everything if I just sent them several hundred pounds!

They did actually put a trojan on the computer - it was an old one that I was trying to set up and they got in there as soon as I got it online, a minute or so before I was able to instal the antivirus. It was quite a faff, but I managed to download a trojan killer on another computer, save it and then get it on to the old one.

Aside from all of the obvious lies that scammers make up, the thing to remember is that these are categorically not honest people. Whatever would make you think that, if you did pay them the money they're demanding, they would 'honour' their fake assurance and then leave you alone? They've found somebody foolish/vulnerable/terrified who will pay up what they demand, but these nasty criminals will then absolutely not dream of merrily trying to take you for more?!

I did enjoy the sunny little "Hi there" before it goes on to threaten fire and brimstone.

We get them to the work email address, complete with links set up to look like they're sites that we do actually use, with ranty content about being ripped off and click this link and refund before we take you to court and slate you all over the media, the first couple caught us unawares but obviously no links were clicked and we signed in and looked on the actual site for the name and customer number surprise surprise it didn't exist.

The customers sometimes get them (this is not a weakness in our system but the 3rd party as we don't actually have their direct details) saying we want more money or everything is cancelled with no refund.

As well as the ones that have seen us doing all manner of things that they're going to expose us online for, using the web cam that's been disabled - and by disabled I mean it has tape over it to prevent people being recorded without their knowledge accidentally.

I can see how someone might fall for this though because the ones we get are quite professional looking with logo's etc and the message obviously isn't getting out enough, part of my job is to call people to ask for payments and the amount of people that are happy to just hand over their card details is worrying tbh. I always add that they can call me back on our advertised number or pay by bank transfer the details of which have been sent by X email address at Y time, with the details of what we discussed and they are paying for, and to make sure the details match on online banking, to show I am who I say I am, but many aren't that bothered - maybe because banks refund this sort of thing? (Do they?).

Horrible, I’ve had this periodically and even though I know it’s spam it still creeps me out because of the tone.

It’s so ill thought out though. Anyone who had successfully accessed your laptop in the way it describes could just steal your bank details that way. No need for all the porn-related palaver.

I had this one a few years ago. Really disgusting.

I had a couple of these a few years ago. Send it to [email protected]uk*_ and then block and delete.

I've had similar too with blackmail threats. While I'm used to blocking and reporting, that was unpleasant. I had to remind myself that the real details could have come from anywhere despite it feeling considerably more personal and threatening.

Fortunately I'm cleaner than clean so knew it was totally bullshit.

the grammar is atrocious but hey.. that's standard.

And entirely deliberate. For years I, like many people, wondered why none of these scams were ever run by people with the sense to use a native speaker; to at least make it look vaguely professional and believable.

I found out the answer in a work seminar on e-security - and it made perfect sense when I heard it. They don’t WANT it to look professional. The SPAG mistakes, weird phrasing, crappy versions of the logo etc. are deliberate. They want anyone with half a brain to think “Pfft, spam” and hit delete - because then they’re left with people more likely to actually fall for it as they get in deeper. Filter out the people who spot things like spelling errors or the wrong domain name, and they save themselves from wasting precious time on them.

It’s the same reason that one doing the rounds a few years ago with the voicemail supposedly from HMRC used someone with an American accent. Filter out the people with enough sense to realise an American isn’t going to be calling from the UK tax office and bingo - you’ve got your easy meat.

I get several of these a day. I don’t watch porn and I’m fairly sure I have no cameras on when I’m “pleasuring myself”. Neither of those acts are remotely illegal so I’m not really sure, what the threat is.

ive been embarrassed many many times before, one more won’t kill me.

You've really made me snort with laughter

Thank you

I have had that message about four times. Delete and block. It is just some dickhead phishing. Ignore and/ or report

I've received this one - it was so ridiculous (and obviously untrue!) that I thought it was hilarious.

@InTheShallowTheShalalalalalalalow I think we'd all like to watch - post a link... cheer up a dull Tuesday evening

Don't want to be too outing, but this is fairly similar 🤣

They targeted all email addresses at a school I worked at once - one reason for not publishing names and emails for the entire staff on the website, IMO. That was a laugh - we couldn't even get access to YouTube or BBC News at the time because the internet provider had blacklisted them (coincidentally just as they were releasing a 'look! If you pay extra you can get all the news and resources through us!' contract bolt-on), never mind PornHub or any other shite like that.