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"Greetings," it started, friendly enough.
"I want to inform you about an important event that concerns your personal life! I know your secret!" This did sound important--lots of exclamation points! And yes, unlike you and everyone else on the planet, I DO have secrets!* How did they know???
"The fact is that I have been able to monitor your device and peripherals for some time and have figured out your email address." Meh, all of y'all know my email address too. It's jillhamilton001@gmail.com. There it is, plain as day. Still, I had to admire his commitment to monitoring my online activities which include both doom scrolling and crosswords.
"It has to do with the adult sites you visit." Oh. Yeeeeeah. I do that too. It's kind of my job, but still!
Mr. Greetings, not so GD friendly now, put a virus on my device, he says. He didn't mention which device but I was hoping it was something like the toaster, which doesn't know much.
"Now your device is completely under my control. I can turn the microphone and camera on and off at any time." If he was gonna manically laugh, this would be the appropriate point.
"I have all copies of your data, including photos, social networks, correspondence and contacts of friends, family and colleagues," he warned. (And yeah I know it's sexist to say he's a he, but c'mon, no women would do this shit.)
"After
thinking about it for a while, I decided to make an original video. The
main character is you masturbating to a hard fuck." Well...it is not untrue that I have done such a thing.
"The screen in the video is divided into two parts: one side is you, the other side is the video you're watching. It's very entertaining." Entertaining? Very? Well, thanks I guess.
"I assume you don't want your acquaintances, friends and relatives to see this masterpiece? Think of your honor and dignity!" My dignity? Okay, clearly this dude does not know me at all.
But then he gives up the game.
"I see you like Negroes? Well, soon everyone you know will know about your hobbies." Okay. A. I'm sorry--did he just say Negroes? Really, guy? In 2022? B. Porn-wise, I search for men having sex with each other. As you know. C. I like lots of Black people plenty (not you, Candice Owens), but it's not really a factor in my porn habits. D. Still, even if I had a hardcore racial preference (which is fine? or maybe not? not sure...) who the fuck searches for "Negroes" besides a 97 year old man in Kentucky yelling at the Google???
Anyhow, the dude offered to delete the video for $650, for some reason giving me an unasked for discount off his usual price of $1000. Perhaps it was because my video was "very entertaining"? I'm decently vain but I doubted that my acquaintances, friends and relatives would be very entertained by a split screen video of highly specific porn and a wanking middle-aged chick filmed from the universally unflattering below-the-chin angle.
He gave me 24 hours before releasing the Kracken or whatever and then abruptly offered me even more savings (50 bucks off!) if I paid within an hour.
He offered a few more threats--don't delete, don't complain, blah blah blah. "If find out right away that you somehow shared this email** - the video will be distributed immediately - you will become a porn star on all video platforms," he wrote, again resorting to flattery. A porn star? Really???Then he ended it oddly with. "Don't be offended and good luck to you." F-ing weirdo.
Anyway, even though I knew for sure I wasn't looking at what he said, I was a little skeeved out. It may be relevant here to mention that when I get calls about "being sued over an important matter," I always make my husband reassure me that it's fake. "They would serve you via mail," he always says patiently, with the tiniest bit of "jeez, lady" in there. I am kind of a mark is what I'm saying.
Despite all this, I did not end up paying him--though I have watched plenty of porn and it would indeed give me his promised "peace of mind" if you all did not observe me doing it.
However I got that email in 2021 and then...nothing. NOT A ONE of you have told me what a very entertaining porn star I am. I'm a little disappointed, but my dignity remains intact (lol) and I saved $1000, $650 or $600, depending.
xoxo
jill
*Sometimes*** I pretend to be asleep when the dog barks so someone else has to let her out.
**Oops
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12 comments:
Back when I was pitching movies to awful, 20-something development drones who weren't decent enough to try to hide their hangovers or their disinterest, I wish I'd had the guts to start a pitch with "The main character is you, masturbating to a hard fuck."
and just like that, you had the floor
Wait, so you're NOT a porn star?
Hey man, YET!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙄😑 lmao. love getting these because we KNOW they are lying. so. hard. 🔥
Well, you are braver than I am. I have a guilty conscious I think. Even when a police car is behind me, I think, "Oh no, they got me!)
The two are unrelated. For now. —jill
OMG Jill!! A sextortion email! Lucky you!! Both my spouse and I have received these and have provided us with endless fun. Kind of like the IRS phone calls.
Did you ask for a small preview of a video?
Okay yall are waaaay more ballsy than I am. I get completely scared by such things, no fun, don not ask for previews, just fear. i am a big fearful baby is what I am saying.
I view spam of all sorts the same way Tom Lehrer viewed marriage:
“I know some people feel that marriage as an institution is dying out, but I disagree and the point was driven home to me rather forcefully not long ago by a letter I received which said: "Darling, I love you and I cannot live without you. Marry me, or I will kill myself." Well, I was a little disturbed at that until I took another look at the envelope and saw that it was addressed to ‘Occupant’.“
As you guessed, it is a scam email (phishing). If you respond, they will know that it is an active email address, potentially exposing you to more crap. I received the same email several months ago and was paranoid for a bit and ran several different security scans (none of which turned up anything). I am an IT Security Engineer and once my paranoia subsided I realized it for what it was. And do not click on any links or attachments...then you could be compromized.
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