They are all basically scams and looking for some gullible person to rob. Ignore them.
So not only is the scam obvious from the exotic claims (turning on the webcam, etc) but it is obviously a scam from the non-personalized payment.
I received one a week or two ago. My SPAM filter caught it. It’s a clever phishing technique, IMO.
Used to work in IT Security. Every time I get a new computer, the very first thing I do is run to the store and get a little laptop camera cover (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=laptop+camera+cover&i=electronics&ref=nb_sb_noss_2). It is a simple piece of plastic with a hole for the camera, and then a sliding cover that allows you to let the camera take a pic when you want, but otherwise block the lens. It has probably been 10 years since I purposely allowed my computer camera to take a picture of me for any purpose. I would suggest everyone use something like this.
I’ve got several email addresses and I’ve seen that email on each one. Always the same - we are professional hackers, we have horrible personal info about your perverted ways, we have your password, we’ll distribute that to everyone you know if you don’t pay 700 in bitcoin within 48 hrs. If I paid $700 for each message I’d have exhausted my savings and IRA by now.
I heard that some people got bitcoin requests, as part of the Nigerian money scams. And that some instead of asking for money, they have asked for bitcoin.
Bitcoin apparently is harder to trace, harder to recover your money, if you get scammed? Is that true?