Sexploitation Email

googler

I'm with Tallaght, and would laugh loads if I got one -

"We've videoed you through your camera watching P*rn"

I have no camera.

Stoke

RumRat wrote: »

I don't have any sympathy for anyone falling for any of these scams anymore.
The internet has been around for decades now and people shouldn't be on it if they don't know what the risks and signs are.
These stupid people have been around as long as the conmen preying on them. They are just easier to get to with the internet, no groundwork required....

ballyblack wrote: »

Look upon it as a tax on fools!

I think some scams are more sophisticated than others and some are truly malevolent. There are some utterly despicable people in the world. They involve intimidation and can span over the course of months before money finally exchanges hands. There are also genuine Sexploitation cases. Think the opening scenes involving Sick Boy Trainspotting 2.

This above though? It's the most base level dimwitted !!!! on the planet. My analogy involving the shop keeper is 100% on the money. It's equally akin to walking up to someone and saying "Give me your mobile phone" and them just whipping it out and handing it to you, without even looking whether you have a knife or not.

I mean, surely your !!!!!!!! radar should be twitching like mad when you get to the last paragraph and it reads

If you want evidence, reply with “Yes!” and I will send your video recording to your 5 friends. This is a non-negotiable offer, so don’t waste my time and yours by replying to this email

Yeah, the reason he doesn't want you to reply, is because he doesn't have a video..... Like I said, you wouldn't give your mobile phone to a guy unless he had a knife.

Still, if only i had 5 friends eh? I'm sure they'd love a video of me lobbing it :rotfl:

Stoke

googler wrote: »

I'm with Tallaght, and would laugh loads if I got one -

"We've videoed you through your camera watching P*rn"

I have no camera.

Think of all the fun you're missing out on though?

"Can you send me the video please, I'd like to burn it onto DVD and circulate it to my colleagues myself"

I'd honestly just take the !!!!. I used to have great fun with the "Windows Support Very Good Technician For Microsoft Office 7 Windows" phone calls.

DoaM

Stoke wrote: »

Still, if only i had 5 friends eh?

Do you need a hug? We can capture it on webcam if you wish.

Stoke

DoaM wrote: »

Do you need a hug? We can capture it on webcam if you wish.

And then sexploit me or send it to my 2 friends, you can be the third

Hoseman

Recently my Netflix and Deliveroo accounts were compromised. What happened is that one of these pastes had my email and pw for some random site I used in the past that I don't even remember. So Im guessing people access this data and try their luck. I had someone in Spain and Peru use my Netflix and they even locked me out of my account. I had to call Netflix to sort out. For Deliveroo someone changed my address and tried to make an order but didn't have all my card details to complete the transaction.

I guess the lesson here is dont use the same PW for different sites and that its easy for hackers to get this info and then use in different ways. I dont use a PW manager but im considering it.

Pound

I've had quite a few of these emails recently across various email addresses. One of the passwords they sent me, I only used when signing up for Livejournal about 15-20 years ago. Each email has a unique bitcoin address so no way to track how much this person is making from this.

tempus_fugit

Hoseman wrote: »

Recently my Netflix and Deliveroo accounts were compromised. What happened is that one of these pastes had my email and pw for some random site I used in the past that I don't even remember. So Im guessing people access this data and try their luck. I had someone in Spain and Peru use my Netflix and they even locked me out of my account. I had to call Netflix to sort out. For Deliveroo someone changed my address and tried to make an order but didn't have all my card details to complete the transaction.

I guess the lesson here is dont use the same PW for different sites and that its easy for hackers to get this info and then use in different ways. I dont use a PW manager but im considering it.

Don't consider it. Just do it.

Stoke

People are desperate to hack spotify, netflix, deliveroo etc. What's worse, the hacked accounts are often sold on eBay and Gumtree. The owner of the account is often unaware.

DocQuincy

I get these almost daily and it's always the same password. I have tracked it down to a forum I used years ago that got hacked. It is shocking in this day-and-age that people are still using things like MD5 or SHA1 (a hashing algorithm designed to be fast — a bad thing in password hashing and encryption) to store passwords. If you use a site that uses these (though you generally have no way of knowing until after they're hacked) and does not salt passwords then assume your password is in plain text if hacked since an attacker can guess millions and millions of password combinations a second very easily.

I scam bait all the time but you can't do it with these as there's no way to reply. These are more potent than your usual scam though as they contain your actual password. That being said, it blows my mind how someone of sound mind could pay up without first asking someone first or Googling it.

I started using a password manager and now I have started I would honestly not entertain not using one. I'm sure lots of them do this but the one I use (1Password) checks your passwords against breaches and warning you against duplicates and not using two-factor auth.

Now all my passwords are things like BbmgoPF=jdzqaMuZ@vx7xU instead of Fido1970.

This site is good: https://howsecureismypassword.net

Using one of my 1Password passwords I get:

It would take a computer about

32 SEPTILLION YEARS
to crack your password

If anyone would like to know more about how password managers work feel free to ask! As I said before I regard it as an essential now. Much better than keeping everything in a password-protected Word doc.