Category: Scams

This may sound like an advertisement for my previous article on hosting a mail server on your home network, since doing so for the last several years has allowe...

This is new to me and the first time I’ve received this type of e-mail. I’ve redacted all names since the photographer on whose behalf this email ap...

This one is a little different from the previous ones I’ve received, but still the same pattern. Interestingly this time they’re demanding Ethereum ...

Slightly different from previous e-mails I’ve received, but otherwise still more of the same. Hi! I’m a hacker who hacked your operating system a fe...

Another scam message came to my inbox today, and it used a rather clever encoding. It looks like plaintext, but it isn’t. It uses high-order 32-bit Unicod...

This one came into my junk folder earlier today: Your password ιs [REDACTED]. Ι kηοw a lοt mοre thηgs abοuτ you τhαn thατ. How? Ι plαced a malwαre oη τhe pοrn w...

And for accessibility (without the character manipulation): i am aware ******** one of your passphrases. Lets get directly to point. absolutely no one has paid ...

This one came to me with the subject line of a password obtained from a data breach. And written out so this can be indexed by search engines, without all the c...

This one has an interesting twist: The entire e-mail is just one large image. And this one plays on the data leaked passwords I’ve seen previously, hence ...

Yet another one came to my e-mail today, this one slightly different from previous ones. So basically it’s the same empty threat with slightly different w...