Thread: Theiving extortionist mongrel!

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So far, I've received pretty close to a dozen of those types of emails as well as other types of "porn" related junk. Every one was caught by my provider's spam filter and never actually made it to my machine. I ignored them all. Most likely just a scam. These people get email lists from the so called "dark web" for almost nothing. Some come from hackers that have broke into retailers sites and forums just like this one.

One of these guys actually sent a very garbled version of one of my forum passwords to "prove" that he had what he claimed. It wasn't anywhere near correct and wasn't even a password that I would have used on anything serious, but it was close enough that I knew he had some kind of data. For a long time, I used that same password for all of the automotive related forums I visited, but have since stopped that practice. Wherever he got his info, he obviously got something that was scrambled in translation!

From the scammer's point of view, these things cost almost nothing to send. So, if you send out 10,000 emails and get returns on one tenth of 1%, you just made free money. It's a sorry consequence of the convenience of the internet. Now, if every email cost a nickle to send, you would see a LOT less of this crap.