Got my first...

[toomuchreality]

Oh, my Heck!

Yesterday, I got my first genuine extortion text on my phone. WTF?!

Said something like, I KNOW you like kiddie porn. 
Unless you want all your friends and family to know about this, you will need to send me $500.
It must be received by ____.
Have it converted to bit coin and deposited here ______________.

This is the polite, short version.  ↑ ↑ ↑

After I burst out laughing, thinking about what an ass the person that sent it was, I briefly considered texting back to them, telling them just what I thought about their extortion attempt, and them. But I quickly gathered my senses and called the police instead. After that, I looked up the FCC.

No one. Absolutely no one, would believe a story like that, about me. I am not even a little bit concerned. (In fact, I forwarded the message to some family members, saying- Can you believe this?!)    - But the way it was written, I bet plenty of people (even innocent ones) got really upset/nervous!   Sad.

I'd like to show them a close up view of a baseball bat.  -Jerk.  



The police told me this is part of the latest 'new' version of this scam, and it is wreaking havoc.

BEWARE!   And if you have friends or family members who might possibly get caught up in this, should they receive it, please take precautionary steps,, to help them.

[Tennesseer]

Pretty nasty. Somewhere, sometime, they will hit paydirt from some guilty party.

[Bluerobin]

I am getting emails like that.  The guy finally sent his Bit Coin account.  Guess who is going to be found!

[sesfw]

Unreal ……… If these people would just use their 'brain' for good, how much better this world would be

[toomuchreality]

Jan 27, 2019 10:47:00 GMT -5 Bluerobin said:

I am getting emails like that.  The guy finally sent his Bit Coin account.  Guess who is going to be found!

Yep. I was also sent a bitcoin account, so I could deposit my $500.  I promptly gave that info to the police. The police didn't seem to think it was actually going to be anything of value though. But I hope it is. And since it is actually handled by the detectives div, not the reg police officers, they could be wrong.   I mean, my money has to be deposited somewhere, for him to get it, right? And if he wants it, he can't make it too difficult.