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Is there a place to report spam?

Janet

Dances with Bees
Contributing Artist
Part num your phone. xx54

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9/24/2018 11:45 PM

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Hey. It's me! Your future friend or enemy.
You do not know me and think why I received this letter.
I am sorry for my english, its not my native language.
I learn more machine language - code.

I hack phones and save information from them.
I installed you a program with the functions of saving video and saving typing.

When you visited the sites that interest me. (Sites containing porn.)
My program recorded video from your screen with simultaneous connection to your camera.
Saying thanks you to the phone manufacturers. This mode - Split Screen.

Also, I saved a full backup of your phone, which contains all your files.
History of correspondence, browser history and all telephone contacts during the hacking.
Saying thanks you to the phone manufacturers. This mode - backup.

At the moment the program is deactivated, and I am writing to you.

You think what I should do. And, of course, you are furious.
You have to make a choice.
And remember. You make choice, what will happen next in your life.

1. You can delete and ignore this email. When I return, I will see that the letter is being viewed.
In this case, I will be able to share this personal record with your contacts.

To track the reading of a message and the actions in it, I use the facebook pixel.
Thanks to them. (Everything that is used for the authorities can help us.)
More you can find out by the link.
Help Center

2. You can write to the police, and they will investigate the hacked ip and hacked mail.
In order to find me and protect you. I think time is too small for this, 48 hours before sending the files.
In this case, I will be able to share this personal record with your contacts.
The police will not save you from the ridicule of friends, colleagues and family. You want live with this?
In my practice, there were cases when people had to change the whole way of life and place of residence.
They wanted to pay, but it was too late. It's time, and the files have been sent.

Everything that is downloaded on the Internet there and will remain forever.
More information you can find on request in Google
"Beyonce delete photo from internet"

3. I want to get paid for the work done. We all want our work to be paid.
(Even if it was not a wanted job.)
I want 1000 USD. In Bitcoin
My wallet BTC Address:

1EkAVVDg8Rbwwa7j9DbvHQ7VmQ4FkBdEGT

(CASE sensitive, copy and paste it carefully)

If you have any questions, you can write me. Email will be available for short-term support.
For payment after opening the letter 48 hours.

Pay me and you make new choice.
4. Receiving video only personally.
5. Delete all the data.

Time has begun.

**@@@@@#

Just got the above spam blackmail email. Is there a place to report it? His wallet number is there so it seems it could be traceable.
 

LisaB

HW3D Vice President & Queen Bee
Staff member
Co-Founder
What email client do you use? There should be a way to report spam there.
 

Janet

Dances with Bees
Contributing Artist
Oh good idea. It's mail from my site so I'll contact Netsol. Thank you! I despise spammers and internet hackers/scammers.
 

Alisa

RETIRED HW3D QAV Director (QAV Queen Bee)
Staff member
QAV-BEE
You can try to report it or block the email on your email program. Frankly, I usually just delete them - I doubt much can be done.

I took your post, by the way, put it into a text editor and then put it back in the post. Not sure if there were any links in there as some things were green.

l also removed your email address. You never want to put your email address directly on a public forum.
 

Janet

Dances with Bees
Contributing Artist
Oh DOH! Thank you Alisa. I started an online chat with Netsol but they didn't respond so I'm going to let it go.
 

Willowisp

Adventurous
Why not have some fun with them? If you have any Poser/Daz figures with 'anatomical elements' (specifically the outwards kind!) make lots and lots of close-up renders of them, and spam their email with them :whistling:

(There is of course the possibility that the address is fake, but if it isn't, they won't be bothering you again hehehe)
 

Miss B

Drawing Life 1 Pixel at a Time
CV-BEE
I wouldn't do that from any of my email addresses, as I wouldn't want to confirm to them they have the correct address to contact me. If you just ignore them, they won't know if their spam mail even reached anyone.
 

Alisa

RETIRED HW3D QAV Director (QAV Queen Bee)
Staff member
QAV-BEE
I have to disagree here, too, Willow. I would definitely NOT reply at all to or mess with people like these. These are not just people trying to get money from you (I've played with people calling on the phone, who say they're from Microsoft and are calling about my computer). This is different. These people are issuing threats. I've gotten some of these too.

Whatever you do - DO NOT PAY THESE SCAMMERS.

I just found this:
On the Internet-FBI Scams and Safety

First link there is to a place you can report this stuff to the FBI for those in the US. Again, I don't know that anything will come of it but it's a place to report it.
 

Miss B

Drawing Life 1 Pixel at a Time
CV-BEE
Oh, I had fun with a phone scammer last year, who swore I owned the IRS thousands of dollars.

A friend of mine, however, had one of those calls about her computer, though not sure if they said they were from Microsoft, but she called me immediately from her cellphone, and I told her she could take her computer to Best Buy's tech squad to check out what the caller was saying was true.

Since she had bought her laptop at Best Buy, that turned out to be the right way to go, as they were very familiar with her laptop model's setup. It was all a scam, and she was thrilled she hadn't fallen for their nonsense.
 

Janet

Dances with Bees
Contributing Artist
I got one of those calls from the IRS scam almost fell for it then realized if it was the IRS they would mail me as they always have. The caller had the perfect authoritative voice for it. When I realized it was a scam I yelled at him and his voice suddenly changed to omg caught.

I've gotten thousands of spam emails but this is the first blackmail one.
 

Alisa

RETIRED HW3D QAV Director (QAV Queen Bee)
Staff member
QAV-BEE
Blackmail - that's the word I was searching for above when saying this is different.

Exactly - IRS doesn't ever call you to tell you that you owe them money. They send a letter.

Microsoft doesn't ever call you about your computer, either, of course.

My 3 favorites when dealing with the "This is Microsoft calling about your computer":

1-Tell them "I don't have a computer". Sometimes follow it up with "I've heard that people call you to scam you into giving them money if you have a computer." Sometimes with "you may as well go scam someone else"

2-Ask them how they sleep at night trying to scam people.

3-I think my favorite (suggested by hubby). Say "Oh, wait a minute while I turn on the computer". Put the phone down and continue what I'm doing, including often talking to hubby. I hear from the phone a few times "Hello, hello...ma'am?" They eventually hang up, but now I have wasted THEIR time....
 

esha

Admirable
Contributing Artist
I got a few of these, too, over the past few weeks. I think they just send them to more or less everyone and hope someone feels guilty, gets scared and pays up.
I also got another scam mail today, allegedly by a solicitor who wants my help with disposing lots of money because some millionaire in Spain died without having heirs. They didn't even bother to make it look like a solicitor's note. It was such a blatant scam it made me laugh.
 

Janet

Dances with Bees
Contributing Artist
Hahaha wasting their time. Great idea Alisa!

I have a friend that somehow got his phone number on a spammer list and was getting 3 calls a day about how his computer was faulty. Over Skype I would hear him go on and on with these people. He would insult them, swear at them tell them to go eat #%@% and only one time they hung up. Now he just hangs up on them right away.
 

Willowisp

Adventurous
I think my favorite way of handling Microsoft scams, is to boot up Linux and play dumb. See how long you can keep them on the line, wasting their time. Almost wish they would call me just once! :p

Only spam I get is about winning lotteries - from countries I don't live in :rolleyes:
 

Rowan54

Dragon Queen
Contributing Artist
My renter has been getting stuff like this. They claim that they will send (whomever) a picture of him watching spam. Thing is....his computer does NOT have a built in camera, which means it's entirely false. So far, he's just been ignoring them because obviously, it's fake.
 

Miss B

Drawing Life 1 Pixel at a Time
CV-BEE
I got one of those calls from the IRS scam almost fell for it then realized if it was the IRS they would mail me as they always have. The caller had the perfect authoritative voice for it. When I realized it was a scam I yelled at him and his voice suddenly changed to omg caught.
In my case, since I don't answer my phone if I don't recognize the caller and/or phone number, this gal, with an authoritative voice, left her message and hung up. I waited about 10-15 minutes, and called the number back (no she didn't leave it, I just used what I saw on my phone's Caller ID), and a little old lady, who barely spoke English, answered the phone sounding like she didn't now what I was talking about.

A while later the original caller called back, and this time I picked up the phone, and she went through her spiel, and when I didn't automatically comment, she said "you don't know know what I'm talking about", to which I answered . . . "I don't have a f'ing idea what you're talking about." There was dead silence on the phone because she had suddenly hung up. I called my accountant, and he said quite a few of his clients had called about the same type of phone call. One of them almost fell for it, but when she brought her mail to Fed Ex as per instructions, the guy there told her forget it, it's a scam, so Fed Ex was already aware of what was going on.

I tell you, these folks won't stop at anything they think they can make people believe is real. ~shakes head~
 
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