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Percy Member Posts: 22388 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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I always assumed that the EvC Forum admin account led a quiet life. It never logs anywhere (including here), it posts the occasional message here, and it sends and receives email at admin@evcforum.net. So news of the admin account's double life came as a surprise to me today when I discovered that it had evidently been browsing the internet and been video'd watching porn. Here's the email it received:
quote: Apparently the admin account has a contact list. Unless the admin account has monetary resources I'm unaware of it won't be possible for it to pay the BitCoin blackmail. I sure hope I'm on the contact list because I can't wait to see the video. I wonder if he really looks like Catbert. The IP address of the email was 45.156.27.78 and comes from Moscow. --Percy
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Tangle Member Posts: 9489 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Yeh, my 94 year mother has been at it too apparently.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
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nwr Member Posts: 6408 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
Yes, I get some of that kind of email.
Sometimes the email includes a password. And it is usually a correct password that I had stopped using several years ago and no that longer works anywhere. I ignore such email.Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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vimesey Member Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined: |
They should run a few public information commercials to get people trained to ignore these things. A lot of people not used to tech are getting robbed blind by these arseholes.
I'm currently running at a recorded message phone call every other day telling me I'll be arrested by Revenue and Customs if I don't call them back. A good tactic, by the way, if you do get a human being on the end of a phone call, is to say "just let me get a pen and paper", lay the receiver down, and then go and watch TV or sip a few suds. Wasting their time is about the only way we can hit back at them.Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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jar Member (Idle past 393 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
It seems I'm on that list as well.But also on another. I have an overdue parking bill that has been accruing interest it seems for over a decade and unless I pay it an arrest warranty will be issued by the Cambridge UK police.
What is truly sad is that these scams tend to work or they would not persist. There are enough folk out there who will pay the overdue shipping invoice or bitcoin 'requests' or send money to the lawful attorney to clear the importation duty to make it worthwhile for a machine to spawn all these scams.My Website: My Website
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8513 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Wait, what?
Send money to a lawyer to payoff a duty so he could import a machine that makes scams? Come on, jar. You're pulling on me. For $100 I'll go away.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5930 Joined: Member Rating: 5.8 |
Ditto. Mine are sent to an account I don't even use and goes straight to the spam folder.
I just ignore and delete when I take my spam out to the trash. And if they ever went through with their threat it would only improve my reputation anyway.
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jar Member (Idle past 393 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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The last person that stole my identity still owes me for taking it back.
My Website: My Website
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3941 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0
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The YouTube search:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trolling+sca... James Veitch is the one I've paid the most attention to. His output includes TED talks. Start with this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MHDDSekvcE MooseProfessor, geology, Whatsamatta U Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment. "Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith "Yesterday on Fox News, commentator Glenn Beck said that he believes President Obama is a racist. To be fair, every time you watch Glenn Beck, it does get a little easier to hate white people." - Conan O'Brien "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." - John Kenneth Galbraith It says something about the qualities of our current president that the best argument anyone has made in his defense is that he didn't know what he was talking about. - Paul Krugman (as stolen from Chiroptera's signature) "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes" - Ronald Reagan (1984) "I know a little about a lot of things, and a lot about a few things, but I'm highly ignorant about everything." - Moose |
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coffee_addict Member (Idle past 476 days) Posts: 3645 From: Indianapolis, IN Joined:
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Guys, I kinda feel left out because I haven't gotten one of these emails. Am I not worth blackmailing?
If you say the word "gullible" slowly, it sounds like oranges. Go ahead and try it.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8513 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Maybe you're like me. Too dense to understand the scam so don't even know it happened and can't fall for it.
Some prince wants to send me money? Boy that would be nice. When is The Expanse on? Something about printing money. No, that's wasn't it. How about another glass of wine? {delete} You can't get scammed when you are too dumb to pay attention.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5930 Joined: Member Rating: 5.8 |
Check your spam folder. All the ones that were sent to me went straight to the spam folder without any direction from me.
Besides, they come from so many different "senders" that marking a particular sender as spam shouldn't have any effect. Kind of like how blocking the phone number of a spammer doesn't stop them from still trying to spam from other phone numbers (including fake phone numbers).
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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
A few years ago I was on a Library computer when I got a popup from the "Canadian Police Service" (an organization I have never heard of). It claimed that I had been caught doing "one of the following" - child pornography, Internet fraud, etc. and my computer would be frozen until I paid a fine, I think it was $500, by PayPal. Sure enough, the keyboard didn't work, the mouse didn't work, Ctrl+Alt+Delete didn't work. (I don't know how they expected me to access PayPal.)
So I pressed the Reset button and the computer restarted."I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing |
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