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Idiotic spammers trying to extort me, claiming they hacked my webcam and got video of me jerking off, so I have to pay them on bitcoin. (lemmy.ml)
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Plot twitst: I dont have any webcams. Lol.

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[โ€“] toynbee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can confirm they do still bother; I received an email doing this earlier this week.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, I stand corrected. I think the original scam is just outnumbered now.