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Old 09-02-19, 04:15 AM   #1
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I got this email today and before I delete it I thought I might post it here for some comments!! This is rather a nasty threat!!

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Hеllo,

Did yоu nоtice i have sеnt yоu this lettеr from yоur оwn privatе еmail? This mеans i hаvе full aсcеss tо yоur systеm.

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Gоod luck!
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Old 09-02-19, 05:49 AM   #2
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Bye bye reece its been a blast.

What a load of tosh, if that was sent to me I would say many thanks for your email you do realise I am a police officer and very capable of finding you.

If I got that email the fool clearly has got some things wrong about me which of course I will not say here.
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Old 09-02-19, 06:42 AM   #3
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The thing is the return email is my address so no use contacting 'him', what worries me is to how he can email me from me.
The gist of it is that he supposedly has control of my system and has pictures on me viewing porn, which is crap since I only have an old XP system with no webcam!!
The guy is just a nasty piece of crap, I dare say there would be a lot of people actually paying him his money.

Should I go here? https://haveibeenpwned.com/
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Old 09-02-19, 06:54 AM   #4
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I can not be on the ball with this as this was many years ago, I started getting spam email from unknown email address or mind. Any how could not block it so I just changed my email address and since then never had the issue.

On a separate note on my desktop pc google keep me doing there prove you are not a robot test as we have picked up on suspect behaviour. Really? I hardly use the desktop pc theses days, I go weeks without using it.

I agree reece these people are scum and as you are smart you saw it for what it was.
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Old 09-02-19, 09:51 AM   #5
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Received an almost identical email back in July Reece https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...d.php?t=241884 unfortunately the image is missing.

Perform a full scan and you should come across a Trojan (forgot the name of the bugga now ).

Mine was located in an image of an old war game for the pc.

I used Windows Defender.
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Old 09-02-19, 09:57 AM   #6
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I got so many of these I lost count
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