Got a similar one. Chuckled and deleted it. I'm a grown ass adult. WTF do I care if people know I watch porn? ?

I have a pink post-it note over my webcam so I can remove it for Skype calls and then put it back up easily.
I laugh when I get the "blackmail" emails....but, even if they did have a video of "me viewing porn" (which they can't possibly)...I wouldn't care. Money in my bank account means more than people's opinions about my viewing habits. LOL

I've gotten a couple of those threats over the last few months.
I ignore them.

I've had people I know try to blackmail me with things they think I'd be
too ashamed to have anyone else know about.
They're always so surprised when I tell them to "go ahead and do whatever
you think you need to".
I also always let them know that I have everything connected to their threats documented (whether I do or not, although I usually do). Then, I remind them that their time dealing with law enforcement is going to last WAY longer than any embarrassment they think that I may have to deal with.
I don't do "shame", I simply do not care what anyone else may think of me.
It's none of my business what others think of me anyway.

The ONLY way blackmail works is if you (general you) let your fear of being
"exposed", give anyone else control over you.
Anyone attempting to use extortion is banking on their target being weak and
afraid.
If anyone is going to succumb to blackmail, I really have no sympathy for them.
They were too weak to stand up to it.

For $20 I won't tell anyone that you don't watch porn

There have been suicides in the UK related to this scam.

I so would have called their bluff. "Dude, send it, hit me with a copy, too."

Thank you ! The best ways to beat scams is to be aware of them , before they wind up in our mail boxes , spam them when they show up , and delete the one you did receive , to remove any temptation/fear . Nice going , hon !

Got a message to my work email that said I was a contributer to a porn video on Vimeo. I wish! JK lol ?

If they claimed to be watching me and didn't mention Susan the inflatable Lama, the rubber boots or the vermillion aqua lung hooked up the chicken, then I wouldn't worry about it.

Thanks for the heads up on the new scam

I got one of those. I was like...go for it post away. I mean if that is the worst you got on me you aren't digging very deep

I saw that in a movie once. I didn't know it actually happened.

I use a memorized code to generate passwords that are unique to the site I'm on. I've done that for years. My passwords are super complex but I have no trouble remembering what they are.

If this happened to me i would admit it straight away and not to mention all my friends know anyway. Theres no shame in this for me at all haha. Octopus porn FTW!

I'm glad you didn't fall for it. There is a video of you viewing a porn site. Most likely three quarters of America has viewed a porn site. So what. I once had a similar thing come to me and the sender actually wanted to threaten me into providing details and told me what would happen if I did not do so. I ignored it and it finally stopped.

I have been getting phone messages saying I am in legal jeopardy and that if I don't talk to these people the local cops are going to arrest me. It's all a scam of course. There are a lot of losers out there who can't or prefer not to make an honest living and instead try to prey on others. Unfortunately they do find victims, but happily I have so far not been one of them. At least not so far. The best policy is not to respond to any email or phone message directly. Your bank, the IRS, the local police, the Nigerian Consulate, none of them will call or email you asking for information. Just file it under "Another bullet dodged." ?

Thanks for the idea of tape over the webcam. I learned out how one can get access to a webcam, and I'm pretty sure that I won't do any of those things, but why not cover over the webcame when not in use?

Thanks for the warnings!

I have an friend in Texas who is a evangelical Christian. Apparently her husband has a porn addiction, and thought being a part of an online "Christian" support group was the way to handle it without it embarrassing him. Well, this support group was a front for blackmailers and he was blackmailed with not only what he said, but with email/pics from a female he was sexting with.

I don't know how much money they got from them, but as of the beginning of the year they were contacting their friends to extort money from the friends (they contacted me; I told them they could not hurt me and to go fuck themselves). Unfortunately, these people are in the Philippines, so there is nothing the US can do.

I live by never telling anyone anything that you don't mind everyone knowing.

This is a common scam. I was hit at least 6 times by two different people (or maybe the same person using different spoofed email addresses, IDK). Yes, that initial email scared the shit out of me despite the "revelation" being completely untrue. The scam emails I received implied I was doing more than watching porn and they had installed keystroke logging software on my machine, yammer-yammer-yammer. I deleted them all. LOL!

Using a password manager, if you use it well, can help [1] reduce the chances of your passwords getting cracked, and [2] reduce your vulnerability when it does happen. "Using it well" includes [0] choosing a strong master password or passphrase for the manager, [1] letting it create strong passwords for you (long, gibberish, with mixed case, numbers, and maybe symbols), and [2] creating a unique password for every account.

Examples include LastPass - they store all the passwords securely for you in the cloud - and KeePass - where you store your own database file.

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So terrible! That burns me up. They need to be caught and prosecuted.

Good to know!

I would send them back a picture of me watching them watch me watch porn. Then some poor crime scene cleaner has to wipe the pieces of this jerks blown mind off the walls. Sweet justice.

I hear ya. I don’t watch it either. I would either tell them sure do what you want or just ignore their bs.