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I've got a variant of this one about 15 times (minus the picture of my house). I sometimes read it out to my partner for the luls. I never keep a web cam attached to my computer, so I find it even more hilarious with the details they go into about my jerking activities and the questionable porn I watch (everything I enjoy is insanely tame lol)
You make it tempting to actually read scam email …. Almost
They really are just looking for the lowest common denominators.
I don't have a webcam attached to my desktop, and my laptop is only used for work, and anyway it has a physical plastic cover over the camera.
A lot of people will have a very similar setup so it'll be very obvious that they don't have anything. The only people this will actually catch out are those with a guilty conscience.
I bet they have a disproportionate number of politicians pay up