Dating site extortion experience

#63
I Didn’t see it on the board for some reason. I literally read “what’s new” every time I’m letting the poison out (of my ass on the bowl). I guess I was constipated on Friday :D...Although it doesn’t hurt to “bump” this type of activity. Be safe out there, choose ur car dates wisely. I’d rather be robbed a few 20’s than be in a viral video. That poor guy taught me a lesson.. If ur gonna monger (as a precaution) Do not get the strap, Bring the Strap.
 
#64
Recently received an email showing a password I had used in the past and saying that they have accessed my contacts and will send out pics of me masturbating to porn if I didn't send bitcoin to them. Well, good luck to them, as I have never masturbated on line or in front of my computer. That they had the password and handle was a bit disturbing from a general security standpoint, but I cannot trace where it was stolen from as I had used them years ago before heightening security and using different passwords per account. I just deleted the email. Got a second one several days later, ignored and deleted it as well. All quiet since.
i have received numerous such emails over the past couple of years. just deleted them.
 
#66
I got the same e-mail and I got a littel nervous ..... till I realized that my monitor and computer does not have a camera. Just delete the e-mails. This started like a year ago. I continued to get threatening e-mails for like a month or two. None since.
 
#67
i have received numerous such emails over the past couple of years. just deleted them.
I got the same e-mail and I got a littel nervous ..... till I realized that my monitor and computer does not have a camera. Just delete the e-mails. This started like a year ago. I continued to get threatening e-mails for like a month or two. None since.
FWIW, may I make some suggestions to guys who aren’t (but should be IMHO) as paranoid as I am. I addition to what I consider a mandatory burner phone:

I have several email addresses:

1.One I use for personal (medical, personal business such as taxes, bank, broker, professional society, close friends, etc.) Never get any spam, junk mail on this one. On my desktop and my phone. I own the email name (cost one time $15 years ago). I don't care if my SO sees this account.

2. One I use for stores and/or any other legit place that I feel most likely will also sell my name to others. I get 20-30 spam/ per day on this one that are filtered directly to my spam folder. On my desktop and my phone.

3.One I use for nefarious purposes. I need to log onto this one which I do w/o leaving any history, autofill or autosuggest.

Among other things my email for UG is tied to this one in addition to fellow mongers I've met over the years. I’ve yet to get any extortion emails on this account and I get maybe 30 spams/month.
I very much care if my SO sees this account.
 

Finnbob

Will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
#68
Had this nonsense happen to me when someone on a sugar baby site asked me to chat with her on google hangouts. I created a new profile and joined her. Chat a bit and she turns on her cam and she’s is naked and wants to play she says and asked me to turn on mine. Sensing a scam, just to easy , I turn my cam on and have a pic in front of me with some random face lol
two minutes later the extortion threats start along with the emails they will expose me I tell them to have fun, please expose me to everyone lol
since then I have had two more invites to google hangouts to chat I decline
scams are always happening. trust no one
 
#73
Not to say I'm paranoid, but have thought through this as a "what if" and I landed on " if I ever get there.." I'll insist it's a zoom call, from a new account tied to my monger email ( hotmail - I'm that old ), and then find a recording from some random dude's webcam and loop that as the background. It looks real enough. Not that I've thought about this. And I hope OP that this just all goes away for ya!
 
#74
Something relevant I learned decades ago: When assessing your security measures in place (or needed) a useful part of your analysis is to look at it all as how much inconvenience you are willing to put yourself through in order to provide enough "inconvenience" to a potential perpetrator that it overcomes their willingness to continue. Use of security tools inhibits your ability to conduct your activities, but if somebody wants what you've got bad enough, they can get it.

ALL types and extents of security can be analyzed this way.
The physical security of your body or your property, from using situational awareness while walking around to hiring bodyguards and from inexpensive locks on the front door of your house ("locks only keep honest people out") to building a wall around it with lookout towers, armed guards and razor wire.
Electronic security is subject to the same review. Rudimentary measures are (fortunately) imposed on us, such as 4-character passwords (mostly in the past now) to multi-factor authentication, biometrics, etc, and the good methods described by UG members in this thread and elsewhere.
These things slightly impede our use of the electronic things we enjoy, but they degrade their attractiveness to potential bad actors, hopefully to the point they move on.

Thieves of all kinds may look for a different victim, or give up their plan entirely.
My 3 cents.
 
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