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(46,327 posts) Thu Jun 4, 2020, 10:27 PM Jun 2020

Just got a nasty e-mail...

Guy claimed to know every web site I was on, and if I didn't send him almost 7,000 British pounds in bitcoin, he would expose me.

I have no idea how to get bitcoin, no desire to, so I wrote back to the guy that I didn't speak Nigerian.

The return e-mail bounced.

BIG surprise, right?

BTW, I was getting calls from local hospitals and doctors' offices, but they were spoofed.
The robocaller said "I am with Social Secur..." click. (They hang up, I don't.)

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Just got a nasty e-mail... (Original Post) Archae Jun 2020 OP

I blacklist bullshit. OAITW r.2.0 Jun 2020 #1

I get one of these very few months dawg day Jun 2020 #2

I forward to abuse@whatever.com Xipe Totec Jun 2020 #3

I was honored to hear from a Nigerian prince. All I have to do is send him my life's savings and Doodley Jun 2020 #4

Was it Prince Pmurt? gratuitous Jun 2020 #6

I got one similar a few months ago Bev54 Jun 2020 #5

OAITW r.2.0

(24,467 posts)

1. I blacklist bullshit.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Jun 4, 2020, 10:33 PM

Jun 2020

Problem pretty much goes away. Their business model is getting 1 out of 100 emails to respond. It's like fishing......wait and set the hook on the ones that bite.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)

2. I get one of these very few months

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Jun 4, 2020, 10:41 PM

Jun 2020

Usually mentions a password I had 20 years ago. It was startling, but now I ignore.

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

3. I forward to abuse@whatever.com

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Jun 4, 2020, 10:44 PM

Jun 2020

in other words, if the email came from george@yahoo.com, forward it to abuse@yahoo.com

Each domain has an email address where you can report this kind of crap so they disable the user.

Probably already happened by the time you tried to reply.

Doodley

(9,088 posts)

4. I was honored to hear from a Nigerian prince. All I have to do is send him my life's savings and

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Jun 4, 2020, 11:23 PM

Jun 2020

the millions will come flooding in. I can't wait. I really feel like I have hit the jackpot. I am already looking to see what Ferrari and what yacht I will buy.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

6. Was it Prince Pmurt?

Reply to Doodley (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 5, 2020, 11:06 AM

Jun 2020

Bev54

(10,051 posts)

5. I got one similar a few months ago

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Jun 4, 2020, 11:48 PM

Jun 2020

Said they had my passwords and know all the sites I visited. I am a 66 year old woman who does not save any of my passwords on my computer, and don't visit any unsavory sites. I just deleted, so far nothing has happened.

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