“You have an outstanding payment.”
Tough economic times mean some people do fall behind with bill payments and of course some of us slip up from time to time anyway, so it’s probably not a big surprise to most of us to receive gentle reminders.
I did find this one priceless, however:
Hello there!
Unfortunately, there are some bad news for you.
Around several months ago I have obtained access to your devices that you were using to browse internet.
Subsequently, I have proceeded with tracking down internet activities of yours.
The grammar and structure make it pretty obvious that English is not the writer’s first language, but hey, through the World Wide Web, we all buy from all over the place, so maybe it’s legit. Except it goes on:
While collecting your information, I have found out that you are also a huge fan of websites for adults.
You truly enjoy checking out porn websites and watching dirty videos, while having a lot of kinky fun.
I have recorded several kinky scenes of yours and montaged some videos, where you reach orgasms while passionately m…………..ing.
I’m so kinky that I don’t even like using the word so I’ll bypass it, but I’m sure you get the drift.
As a bloke, once you get to a certain age, having “a lot of kinky fun” resides much more in one’s imagination than in the physical ability to actually have some. Pornography can be a library of memories (or in most cases a travelogue of physical impossibilities) and perhaps “might have beens” and even “if only’s” but more often, if I happen across some of that so-called “kinky stuff”, I find myself wondering what moral lows we’ve come to and marvel that there are still some “normal” people left on the planet.
If you ever receive anything either by email or by text message that doesn’t quite ring true to you, trust your intuition. Don’t click on it to look and see what it might be. Don’t open it. Just delete it and get on with your life. People you owe money to always know your name. That’s a good starting point. Emails and phone numbers can be randomly discovered or purchased. Don’t fall into the traps these smart scammers use.
The scam above has been around for quite a while and it’s one of many. If you receive something you feel just doesn’t look right, copy and paste the first sentence into a search engine – you’ll be surprised how much you can easily find out.
In this case, the search engine took me here: https://malwaretips.com/blogs/unfortunately-there-are-some-bad-news-for-you-blackmail-email-scam/
Oh, and it’s always an odds-on probability that if you don’t have a web camera and/or haven’t been cruising the depravity of the web, there’s no video of you doing anything never mind a montage of kinkiness!
