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I got the lazy version of that yesterday... They didn’t have any old hacked Facebook or other Social Media passwords of mine, or my real name like some of the messages have. They wanted $1000 in bitcoin from me

Plus I don’t have any webcam, and the cameras on my smart phone are taped over, so that part would be an impossibility.

Reporting it to the FBI would be a waste of time. I checked mine out carefully and the sending email account was a hacked computer in Brazil, but the originating IP was in Algeria... so likely the money would be going into some terrorist bitcoin account.

The scheme isn’t new... has been running around for about 6 months.


17 posted on 12/29/2018 8:35:36 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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23 posted on 12/29/2018 9:04:16 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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