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    From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to All on Mon Nov 24 03:24:21 2025
    apparently someone has hacked into my camera which i don't have plugged
    in and they need what amounts to 87,000+ usd in bitcoin.

    apparently i have been masturbating in the bathroom and infront of my
    computer and even now they have accesss and since reading this email i have
    48 hrs to repond or my dead grandmother will see my videos.

    please advise!


    i wonder if they even get money from people doing this shit.
    i like using aliases so i see what sites get compromised.
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  • From Mindsurfer@VERT/FUNTOPIA to MRO on Mon Nov 24 13:04:00 2025
    Re: bitcoin blackmail
    By: MRO to All on Mon Nov 24 2025 03:24:21

    apparently someone has hacked into my camera which i don't have plugged in and they need what amounts to 87,000+ usd in bitcoin.

    apparently i have been masturbating in the bathroom and infront of my computer and even now they have accesss and since reading this email i have 48 hrs to repond or my dead grandmother will see my videos.

    please advise!

    i wonder if they even get money from people doing this shit. i like using aliases so i see what sites get compromised.

    not sure if they use one address to receive the ransom only. If so, you can check the address if others have paid.

    I can't count anymore how many emails of this kind i have gotten =)
    The best defence is using your brain.

    Mindsurfer

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mindsurfer on Mon Nov 24 10:04:25 2025
    Re: bitcoin blackmail
    By: Mindsurfer to MRO on Mon Nov 24 2025 01:04 pm

    I can't count anymore how many emails of this kind i have gotten =) The best defence is using your brain.

    One thing about Gmail is that it has a sort of smart email filter that can detect spam. Most of the time, I don't even see emails like this anymore, as they go directly to spam. But sometimes I do need to check my spam in case it mistakenly flagged a real email.

    Nightfox

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  • From Mindsurfer@VERT/FUNTOPIA to Nightfox on Mon Nov 24 21:26:00 2025
    Re: bitcoin blackmail
    By: Nightfox to Mindsurfer on Mon Nov 24 2025 10:04:25

    One thing about Gmail is that it has a sort of smart email filter that can detect spam. Most of the time, I don't even see emails like this anymore, as they go directly to spam. But sometimes I do need to check my spam in case it mistakenly flagged a real email.

    Thats what you get for giving all your data to google ;)

    Beside proton i am with GMX.net for email and their SpamFilter is okish. The problem that i have, the filter often overrules my whitelist entries. So even if i say a certain sender should always be accepted as valid, emails from this sender are still filtered out sometimes.

    Mindsurfer

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mindsurfer on Mon Nov 24 13:47:56 2025
    Re: bitcoin blackmail
    By: Mindsurfer to Nightfox on Mon Nov 24 2025 09:26 pm

    One thing about Gmail is that it has a sort of smart email filter that
    can detect spam. Most of the time, I don't even see emails like this
    anymore, as they go directly to spam. But sometimes I do need to check
    my spam in case it mistakenly flagged a real email.

    Thats what you get for giving all your data to google ;)

    I'm not sure what you mean..? You make spam filtering sound like a negative. The auto spam filter means I don't have to spend my own time looking at spam emails and deleting them, and I don't know how that would be a negative..

    Nightfox

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