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New Email Scam Includes Pictures of Your House. Don’t Fall For It. (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 month ago by 101@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I got this one

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Me too. They had an old address I lived at five years ago. I'm shaking, I'm shaking.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That's the way to win. Never fill in your actual address. Just keep them trying and make up new fake addresses as soon as you can.

[–] fitjazz@lemmyf.uk 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I got example 1 verbatim about a month ago complete with Google street view picture of my house. Jokes on them, all of my porn viewing is on an ancient tablet that does not have a front facing camera.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I got one a couple years ago that included an old password I had used to use. It was sent to my work email but because it had that info in it I did legit get scared...until it said it recorded me jerking it over my webcam. I don't have a webcam.

I found out at least 2 other coworkers got similar emails so me thinks a shitty work vendor got hacked

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

ah yes, plaintext

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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)

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

You make it tempting to actually read scam email …. Almost

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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