Category: Scams

This iteration of the common blackmail sextortion scam e-mail has some interesting points to it. In that, I guess to prevent a text search, many of the letters ...

This is a rather interesting variation on the scam e-mails I’ve received. The subject line was “[username] : [password]”, where [username] is ...

Received this one this morning. This time I left the alleged password in the body of the e-mail as I’ve never used that password anywhere. Either theyR...

Overnight this morning I received two blackmail scam e-mails. They were identical except for the Bitcoin address. And this time the text of the threat was embed...

Another scam e-mail I received recently, this one being a variation on ones I’ve written about here before: Hello, As you may have noticed, I sent this em...

I recently heard of this scam from Jim Browning. Full disclosure: I do support him on Patreon. So I’ll let him describe how this scam works, since he disc...

There are some tell-tale signs that an e-mail is a phishing or scam attempt. I’ve received “Your account has been compromised” e-mails bearing...