Category: Scams

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...

Just got this one today. It came with the subject as the username for my primary e-mail address and an old password I know they harvested from a data dump. And ...

This e-mail caught me a little by surprise this morning as the subject was “Be sure to read this message! Your personal data is threatened!”. At fir...

This iteration of the common blackmail sextortion scam e-mail has some interesting points to it. In that, I guess to prevent a text search, many of the letters ...

This is a rather interesting variation on the scam e-mails I’ve received. The subject line was “[username] : [password]”, where [username] is ...

Received this one this morning. This time I left the alleged password in the body of the e-mail as I’ve never used that password anywhere. Either theyR...

Overnight this morning I received two blackmail scam e-mails. They were identical except for the Bitcoin address. And this time the text of the threat was embed...

Another scam e-mail I received recently, this one being a variation on ones I’ve written about here before: Hello, As you may have noticed, I sent this em...

I recently heard of this scam from Jim Browning. Full disclosure: I do support him on Patreon. So I’ll let him describe how this scam works, since he disc...

There are some tell-tale signs that an e-mail is a phishing or scam attempt. I’ve received “Your account has been compromised” e-mails bearing...