New Scam Email Circulating Around The Internet

[vincent3685]

I just received an email from one "marceline". They claim to have "dirt" on me and they have my name, address, email, and phone number. They are demanding payment of $2k via bitcoin in order to delete this information or else they're going to spread it around to my friends and family. They even attempted to get a photo of my house, but I have it blurred out on Google maps. So using the next street number in the sequence, they forwarded a photo of my neighbors house across the street instead.

I was already aware of this scam from another forum I'm on, so I knew what was going on. But, just as a heads up to my CPF brethren, here's a copy of the email, with all the relevant info removed;



FYI; I don't have a camera or mic. on my computer and my phone is a wi-fi only, de-googled phone running Graphine OS with no cellular service and no SIM card. I use it as a free home phone and rarely take it with me outside.

The whole thing is laughable. But I'm sure there are some people who might fall for it.

They also threaten that if I share this with anyone else, they will release all the garbage they have on me. So by all means let everyone know that vincent3685 is sharing this scam, Lol.

 

[Monocrom]

Thanks for the heads-up. Sadly, this isn't a new scam.
A young, naive boy committed suicide when a similar scam was run on him a few years back. I think he was from Texas, and might have been barely a teen. His dad wishes he had come to him. Would have told him to tell the scammers to go to Hell, and ignore them.

 

[Kestrel]

I wish there was some dirt on me; would liven things up around the place honestly.

 

[bluflaam777]

This seems more like a sad excuse for a joke. Like those stereo typed detective paperbacks. "It was a dark and rainy evening. An evening like many before. Dark. Wet, Lonely. Not necessarily in that order. When suddenly the hiss & patter of the skies was interrupted by <insert description of statuesque movie Starlette.>

Over dramatic. Over-descriptive and on about nothing.

I don't usually respond, but when I do I ask that they step up their game and tell some jokes. If I'm gonna pay $2k I want to be entertained.

Amuse me.

 

[ghostguy6]

If they really had dirt on me they would be threatening to call the cops, FBI, CIA or Interpol....... Oh probably shouldn't admit that out loud