PSA: Email scams on the rise

A couple of years ago, near Christmas, I was buying a Stanley thermos for my nephew. New job and outside. The store was super crowded, long line at the checkout. The clerk wanted my name and address and email. I said I was paying cash and they didn't need any of that. Oh...it's for the warranty. I said, yeah, Stanley will take care of it, I am paying cash, you don't need my info. So the little gal tells me she can't sell it without filling out all the boxes. I look around the room and say, ok....My email is [email protected], (a few snickers) my address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC and I made up some zip code (a few more and some real big grins) Then I told her my name was John, that's J O H N. She was busy typing every thing in and asked my last name. I said would you like my middle initial? yes sir. It's E. And your last name? Cash. That's C A S H. John E Cash. That's when she realized what was going on and got really pissed off. She needed the real info. I asked to see her manager and I'd wait right here in line. Then I insisted on seeing her manager and no, I'm not moving aside, I will wait my place right here in the front of the line. Dude shows up. She starts talking to him, she is still pissed, and he is taking it all in, looking around, other customers and other clerks. He steps over, rings up my thermos and apologizes. He is telling her that all that info is NOT required and to just ring stuff up and accept payment. I thanked him, and her, and wished everyone a very merry Christmas. I got a couple of "you, too".
Around here, we have a grocery chain that insists on scanning your drivers license when buying alcohol.

Long story short. I told them to go fuck themselves, I'm never coming back. That was two and a half years ago. Fucking pricks. I told them they are infringing on my right to privacy and that they did not need that information in perpetuity. I'm 67 years old and even to the dumbest fuckwit cashier, I look a damned sight older than 21.

No other grocery stores/chains around here require the scan.
 
Bwaahhhaaahhhaaaa found this email in my junk so i copied the text for your enjoyment

Hello pervert, I've sent this message from your Microsoft account.

I want to inform you about a very bad situation for you. However, you can benefit from it, if you will act wisеly.

Have you heard of Pegasus? This is a spyware program that installs on computers and smartphones and allows hackers to monitor the activity of device owners. It provides access to your webcam, messengers, emails, call records, etc. It works well on Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. I guess, you already figured out where I’m getting at.

It’s been a few months since I installed it on all your dеviсеs because you were not quite choosy about what links to click on the intеrnеt. During this period, I’ve learned about all aspects of your private life, but оnе is of special significance to me.

I’ve recorded many videos of you jerking off to highly controversial роrn videos. Given that the “questionable” genre is almost always the same, I can conclude that you have sick реrvеrsiоn.

I doubt you’d want your friends, family and co-workers to know about it. However, I can do it in a few clicks.

Every number in your contact Iist will suddenly receive these vidеоs – on WhatsApp, on Telegram, on Instagram, on Facebook, on email – everywhere. It is going to be a tsunami that will sweep away everything in its path, and first of all, your fоrmеr life.

Don’t think of yourself as an innocent victim. No one knows where your реrvеrsiоn might lead in the future, so consider this a kind of deserved рunishmеnt to stop you.

I’m some kind of God who sees everything. However, don’t panic. As we know, God is merciful and forgiving, and so do I. But my mеrсy is not free.

Transfer 1400$ to my Litecoin (LTC) wallet: ltc1q5ddgdde7ydjq43s8hmnlkc4ml4y2uh73j2dkak
 
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Bwaahhhaaahhhaaaa found this email in my junk so i copied the text for your enjoyment

Hello pervert, I've sent this message from your Microsoft account.

I want to inform you about a very bad situation for you. However, you can benefit from it, if you will act wisеly.

Have you heard of Pegasus? This is a spyware program that installs on computers and smartphones and allows hackers to monitor the activity of device owners. It provides access to your webcam, messengers, emails, call records, etc. It works well on Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. I guess, you already figured out where I’m getting at.

It’s been a few months since I installed it on all your dеviсеs because you were not quite choosy about what links to click on the intеrnеt. During this period, I’ve learned about all aspects of your private life, but оnе is of special significance to me.

I’ve recorded many videos of you jerking off to highly controversial роrn videos. Given that the “questionable” genre is almost always the same, I can conclude that you have sick реrvеrsiоn.

I doubt you’d want your friends, family and co-workers to know about it. However, I can do it in a few clicks.

Every number in your contact Iist will suddenly receive these vidеоs – on WhatsApp, on Telegram, on Instagram, on Facebook, on email – everywhere. It is going to be a tsunami that will sweep away everything in its path, and first of all, your fоrmеr life.

Don’t think of yourself as an innocent victim. No one knows where your реrvеrsiоn might lead in the future, so consider this a kind of deserved рunishmеnt to stop you.

I’m some kind of God who sees everything. However, don’t panic. As we know, God is merciful and forgiving, and so do I. But my mеrсy is not free.

Transfer 1400$ to my Litecoin (LTC) wallet: ltc1q5ddgdde7ydjq43s8hmnlkc4ml4y2uh73j2dkak
Looks like you have been had. You are fucked, dude.
 
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Bwaahhhaaahhhaaaa found this email in my junk so i copied the text for your enjoyment

Hello pervert, I've sent this message from your Microsoft account.

I want to inform you about a very bad situation for you. However, you can benefit from it, if you will act wisеly.

Have you heard of Pegasus? This is a spyware program that installs on computers and smartphones and allows hackers to monitor the activity of device owners. It provides access to your webcam, messengers, emails, call records, etc. It works well on Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. I guess, you already figured out where I’m getting at.

It’s been a few months since I installed it on all your dеviсеs because you were not quite choosy about what links to click on the intеrnеt. During this period, I’ve learned about all aspects of your private life, but оnе is of special significance to me.

I’ve recorded many videos of you jerking off to highly controversial роrn videos. Given that the “questionable” genre is almost always the same, I can conclude that you have sick реrvеrsiоn.

I doubt you’d want your friends, family and co-workers to know about it. However, I can do it in a few clicks.

Every number in your contact Iist will suddenly receive these vidеоs – on WhatsApp, on Telegram, on Instagram, on Facebook, on email – everywhere. It is going to be a tsunami that will sweep away everything in its path, and first of all, your fоrmеr life.

Don’t think of yourself as an innocent victim. No one knows where your реrvеrsiоn might lead in the future, so consider this a kind of deserved рunishmеnt to stop you.

I’m some kind of God who sees everything. However, don’t panic. As we know, God is merciful and forgiving, and so do I. But my mеrсy is not free.

Transfer 1400$ to my Litecoin (LTC) wallet: ltc1q5ddgdde7ydjq43s8hmnlkc4ml4y2uh73j2dkak
Jokes on them, I send these videos to everyone I know already!
 
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Keep getting emails with name, address, pdf attachment. I knew it was a scam, but googled it and it’s real wide spread the last few weeks. I didn’t open the PDF obviously, but a bunch of folks did and said it was screen shots off google maps of their address and it said they were recorded blah blah blah, pay a couple grand in Bitcoin or I’ll send your nudes to your contacts.


Tell your old/stupid friends and family to delete it and move on with the day


Did you open the email?

...but not the .pdf,