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Old 04-04-2021, 03:50 AM
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Originally Posted by recycler View Post
I have gotten the survey one too, but haven’t had any shots yet, so didn’t pay any attention. The spam email that I got that did draw my attention was one with an address somewhat similar to Amazon, so I opened it. It had a partial password that I use, in the subject line! The email stated that they have been looking through my computer and saw all the porn sites I’ve been on, and evidently a video that I supposedly have out there that would be pretty damaging to my reputation, so if I send them $2800 they will leave me alone and not make it public. Sheesh!! As if! I told my siblings about that and my brother said he got the same type of email, but they only hit him up for $1400! It’s really scary that part of my password was in that email....wonder how they got that! That’s a great idea to check out the credit cards often!
Passwords get leaked regularly, just change them often and don't worry about it. It's a common scam known as the extortion scam.
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