I received an email the other day from a fellow that said he had hacked my computer. He not only has my contact list, he has a video of me watching a porn site. If I didn’t send him $5859 he was going to send all of my contacts a split-screen video of me watching the porn along with the porn I was supposedly watching.
Yeah, sure. As if (1) I didn’t have more interesting things to do with my time, and (2) as if I had a webcam…I use a MacMini. Big yawn.
Have you ever gotten ridiculous emails that tried to threaten you?
April 22, 2021
Omg!
LOLOLOLOL
I think that type of email usually goes straight to my junk mail
And I always forget to look at the junk
Even though sometimes stuff ends up in there that’s not junk.
But LOL! I bet you had a great laugh over that one!
Yes, it was so bad it was funny. 🙂
good grief!
what possesses some people!
and I wonder where he arrived at that amount!
isn’t it kind of odd? $5859! maybe he has a bill he needs to pay.
LOL! glad to know that kind of thing is going around though.
I know, the uneven number was supposed to make it sound more real? It cracked me up.
I got a couple of that same email. 1) I’d don’t watch porn and 2) my computer doesn’t have a camera to take a video of me watching porn. It’s amazing that people actually fall for scams like that. But I do know two guys who have sent thousands overseas to supposed young women who want to marry the old, foolish guys. One ‘met’ the scammer on a poker site and the other on a gaming site.
It’s really sad when people get taken in.
I just heard about an elderly woman in Hong Kong who was spammed out of some 30 million dollars! Really!
Wow!
Good grief! No emails, but plenty of voice- mail threats. It would be laughable, we’re it not for those who believe.
I get the voice mail ones too. 🙁
No, I’ve never heard of this! So unsettling!
Icky but not scary.
No, I never have, /but I have been in a group that was zoom-bombed by male genitalia. A great encouragement to learn more about security!
Yuck! 🙁
I had one of those a few years ago – it was frightening but I got it out of the my head and computer when I called my provider who did a proper scan at their end of my computer and the virus snatcher thing did the same… off and on the newspaper reports people caught in the scams/pay it up or else…
Fortunately this was so ridiculous it was funny. But I can see how some of them would be unnerving.
That’s a ;new one. I haven’t heard that one before. Lots of scams going around using the USPS, UPS and Amazon lately.
What an odd amount they chose to ask you to send.
The odd amount made me laugh. I’ve been getting calls about someone buying iPhones on Amazon using my account. Amazon makes me put in my credit card number if someone tries to send something to an address that’s not mine.
I got phone calls! Thankfully we have caller i.d. but also a modulated voice answers our landline. This person accessed my iPhone’s calendar from (saavy I’ll say that) a website I was browsing (a social media site). Yep. I browsed it on my cellphone. Kept it up on the second day so since I don’t ever use my cellphone for lists or reminders of any type, I deleted the apps that came with it that I never use anyway. Problem solved. My spouse called the company the scam artist claimed was compromised that we use and reported the telephone #.
Let me tell you, these scammers are getting creative. Thankfully, we’ve always been un-dupe-able, but many may not be.
Good to see this on a blog.
We never give out our cell phone number, and we have an answering machine that answers all of our calls on our landline. It rings a lot during the day and we never pick up unless we hear that it’s someone we want to talk to.
I don’t worry. I know my email isn’t scam-proof, but I never use it with blogging & rarely use it any more. Texting is my preference choice.
I even text using email, just the opposite of you. But my spam filter usually works.
What a weird amount…I seldom open an email if I dont know who it’s from. Funny thing, I get emails from myself that I know I did not send…I dont open those either.
That’s the weirdest thing, when I get an email that’s supposedly from myself. Fortunately that hasn’t happened in a long time.
You should have sent the money – from a Monopoly set!
The fellow wanted bitcoin. 😀
You could have told him to bite his own coin!
I recieved that very same email, and many more just as stupid as that one. I am being bombarded with spam mail, spam email, and phone calls are on both home and cell..
We get a lot of spam too. 🙁
I’m so tired of this kind of stuff. Don’t people have better things to do? I wouldn’t worry either. The phone calls are driving me crazy too.
The phone rings a lot here…thank goodness for answering machines. A lot of times they don’t leave a message.
I enjoy laughing at the few that get through our filters on my computer. I don’t answer my phone unless it says it is from someone in my contact list. That frustrates my insurance provider that wants me to participate in this or that program; they call from numbers all over the US but I don’t answer any of them. I only know it’s them when they leave a voice mail which I promptly delete. I’ve lately been marking the numbers from which they call as spam so I don’t even have to guess if it might be real if it comes from Phoenix in case it’s about my brother who lives there.
We don’t have caller ID. We let our answering machine handle all calls unless we’re expecting one. If the caller is someone we know then we pick up. That simplifies things a lot.
Not emails but we get plenty of phone calls claiming to be our “internet provider” and threatening to cut off our internet connection. Or calls claiming to be from Amazon demanding an extra payment for something. Neither of us have used Amazon for a good year or two.
At least they’re clearly ridiculous. I feel sorry for the people who are taken in by them.
No email, but a popup message and froze my screen and couldn’t even shut down my computer (MAC). Was told I would lose everything at some point but to call them to fix. Son told me how to resolve — release my computer. He knew someone who called them when that message received and was told they would unblock for a fee. When son learned of this, he explained scam and that person was able to contact their bank just in nick of time to stop payment.
So how did you get your computer back? I’ve never gotten a message like that but would never pay. I have enough backups that if I couldn’t get my computer back I could start all over. Thanks for telling us.