Anyone else getting these blackmail emails

I checked my junk box today and found several emails from the same person that says they know my PW to one of my accounts.  The PW is correct but it was an old password.  I found this on the MWB forum, so i thought i should share so that you know how they are doing this.  Anyone else getting these?


https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2019/01/collection-1-data-breach-what-you-need-to-know/

Yeah, I get a rash of them from time to time, the most recent a couple weeks ago.  I ignore them and they go away

Ah, that's nothing. Wait until your 95 year old mother gets one that implies that they have webcam video of her looking at porn, and are going to send it to all of her Facebook and email contacts.

(Yup, that happened...)

I get that type too, but I'm only 75.  Fortunately, I'm a surly old reprobate who doesn't care if people know that I look at porn, drink beer & wine daily, throw bags of dry poop into garbage cans, and (gasp!) sometimes drink out of a garden hose!

Gary RV_Wizard said:

I get that type too, but I'm only 75.  Fortunately, I'm a surly old reprobate who doesn't care if people know that I look at porn, drink beer & wine daily, throw bags of dry poop into garbage cans, and (gasp!) sometimes drink out of a garden hose!

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You old reprobate.  You probably road in the pack of a pickup and rode a bicycle without wearing a helmet.  I know your type, and I'll tell the world.  ;D

djw2112 said:

I checked my junk box today and found several emails from the same person that says they know my PW to one of my accounts.  The PW is correct but it was an old password.  I found this on the MWB forum, so i thought i should share so that you know how they are doing this.  Anyone else getting these?


https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2019/01/collection-1-data-breach-what-you-need-to-know/

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Well, if you haven't changed your passwords in a while, now might be a good time

Well as long as it is dry poop, your an OK guy.

RRR said:

Well as long as it is dry poop, your an OK guy.

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I heard he scratched his initials in it before tossing it lol

Gary RV_Wizard said:

I get that type too, but I'm only 75.  Fortunately, I'm a surly old reprobate who doesn't care if people know that I look at porn, drink beer & wine daily, throw bags of dry poop into garbage cans, and (gasp!) sometimes drink out of a garden hose!

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Oh my!  A garden hose!  Ditto.  Don't know how I ever made it to 69.  8)

Something similar: I have gotten cell phone calls from myself; the caller ID is me. This seems to happening more frequently. Also, I have gotten emails that appeared to be from a friend in my contact list. Their name is on the email "From" but looking closely, the email address is not theirs. Be careful to look more closely at all your emails. Haste makes waste. 

Gary RV_Wizard said:

I get that type too, but I'm only 75.  Fortunately, I'm a surly old reprobate who doesn't care if people know that I look at porn, drink beer & wine daily, throw bags of dry poop into garbage cans, and (gasp!) sometimes drink out of a garden hose!

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Hi Gary B.,

As long as your not running down the road and chasing cars and drinking from the toilet, I think we can let the other things slide  ;D

Well got go get a drink from the hose as I am running out of beer.

Back in my younger days I won a bet  "drinking from the toilet". I offered to do so and once the bet was set I simply took the top off the tank, scooped out some water with my glass (we were drinking something else at the time  ) and drank it down.  My pals were stunned, but it was water and came from the toilet, so I won the bet.  At least one of them was convinced I was gonna keel over and die any second...

we all deal with unwanted calls..."Im from Microsoft to fix your computer" (being retired one day I kept the guy on the phone 22 minutes, my personal record, before he hung up in frustration)  but yesterday my wife got 'porn' type texts from 11 phone numbers.  Obviously blocked.  I just block caller and move on, life is too short to let this stuff bother me.

Gary RV_Wizard said:

Back in my younger days I won a bet  "drinking from the toilet". I offered to do so and once the bet was set I simply took the top off the tank, scooped out some water with my glass (we were drinking something else at the time  ) and drank it down.  My pals were stunned, but it was water and came from the toilet, so I won the bet.  At least one of them was convinced I was gonna keel over and die any second...

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I just knew you were a party animal...?

As to blackmail e-mails, I receive probably 2 or 3 per week in work and personal accounts.
They all threaten to disclose my various improprieties, unless I pay a large fee.
I say.... bring it on babycakes!

Hi Gary,

Say it ain't so!!  ;D  At a place I worked they had cartoons posted in some cabinets we used for part and filters. Might have been a peanuts one with snoopy, drinking from the toilet. Said as the dog was drinking from the toilet that it doesn't get any better than this. We used it to illustrate their telling us as they were reducing our benefits how good we had it. Glad it is only a memory now.

Yep, these are the bane of my existence at work.  The bad guy is trying to get you to send him (her) money based on something that makes you think is real.  It is somewhat justified by the revelation of your password.  And many times, that is actually a password you use, or have used.  But in almost all cases, the password is an old one that you have not used in years.  So, like LarsMac noted, if you have not changed your password(s) recently, now is the time to do it.  Be sure you change the the password for any account where you might have used that password also.  And then delete the e-mails.  In my case, I never see them.  GMail does a very good job at filtering them so I never see them.  Unless I choose to go through my junk mail.

speaking of robo calls, i hardly ever got them until i filled out a form for an insurace quote online about a year go, ever since then i have been getting about 2 or 3 per day every day, block them they use another local number.  You can tell its a robo call one way because they always start with a question trying to get you to say "yes"  such as "can you hear me ok" what they do is record you saying "yes" and then that gives them permission to do other things.  So never ever ever say "yes" to them. 

So about 6 months ago (ill try to keep this PG rated) when they called i decided to give them a show.  I am straight, but as soon as i know it is  a robo call i put on my gay voice and ask them what they think about B... S...    im like well what do you think, you sound hot, do you like it...  It totally freaks them out, especially the ladies and the guys from india, they hang up on me.  Since i started doing that the calls have pretty much stopped, maybe 1 per week now. 

I dont know if doing that is a crime or not, i mean its not like i ask them to do anything, i just ask them if they like it.... Besides if they file a complaint on me ill just say they dont have to call me if they dont like what i say.   

Its a total blast listening to their reactions... and then click... lol

The famous Tom Mabe turns the table on this telemarketer.
You might try his technique the next time you receive one of these calls !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttrzG5F4R3o

Thats halarious bob...  only thing is i dont want to get in trouble for impersonating LE.    Maybe ill try something different on the next call.    Maybe just tell them sorry you caught me right in the middle, do you mind if i finish first lol.. let their minds figure out the unspoken rest lol

Or sorry you caught me right in the middle of using the toilet, but go right ahead if you dont mind the noises LMAO... 

as soon as I figure out it's a sales call,  I'll ask them breathing heavily......" so..what are you wearing ?.."  8)