On 27-7-2018 8:05, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 27-7-2018 4:57, dick balaska wrote:
>> I've got a couple of these lately:
>>
>> So this guy hacked my computer and caught me masturbating on my webcam
>> white visiting porn sites.  He wants $500 in bitcoin (five hundred
>> dollars!) or he's going to encrypt/disable my computer.
>>
>> 1) I don't have a webcam.
>> 2) What difference does it make what he caught me doing? If he's on my
>> machine, he's on my machine regardless of what I was doing.
>> 3) How many phish do you reckon he's caught?  I would hope if someone
>> was savvy enough to use bitcoin that they'd be savvy enough to know this
>> was a scam.  But, it only takes one phish to make it worth his while.
>>
> 
> Interestingly, just yesterday the police here in NL advised the public 
> to totally ignore this new scam. They do not appear to have teeth.
> 
As so often, I hit the send button to rapidly.

They also said that if you received such a message, your mail address 
was probably hacked earlier from some internet site. Well, that seems 
obvious.

-- 
Thomas

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