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Blackmail variant – 2022-06-20

Posted on June 20, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

“I’m going to make you an offer you can’t refuse!” Seriously? Hi! I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse. If reputation means a...

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Blackmail variant – 2022-05-01

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Been a while since I’ve received one of these. This came in with the email subject “You have an outstanding payment. Debt settlement required.”...

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When you see it

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

It isn’t often that scammers make things as plain as day.

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Blackmail variant – 2022-03-15

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Okay, I’m just going to start naming these the date I first receive them. I can’t keep trying to come up with new article titles for all of these. A...

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Blackmail variant – 2022-02-23

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

This one is very similar to the one I posted on Jan 16. Almost identical, in fact, and I nearly did not post this due to that. The slight difference is this one...

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Blackmail variant – 2022-01-16

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Like I said before, we need to start naming these variants like we name COVID-19 or influenza strains. Same scam as before, and again claiming they have access ...

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Blackmail variant – 2022-01-03

Posted on January 3, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’m starting to think we need to start naming variants of this scam email the same way we name variants of COVID-19. Hi! Unfortunately, I have some bad ne...

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Blackmail variant – 2021-12-25 – Merry Christmas, I suppose?

Posted on December 26, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Yes, I received this on Christmas Day from “Heather”. Imagine that! Hello, Hopefully you actually do not mind my language sentence structure, since ...

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Blackmail variant – 2021-02-20

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

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Copyright infringement scam

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

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