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New Email Scam Includes Pictures of Your House. Don’t Fall For It. (www.eff.org)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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