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Looks like she has a lot of freckles


she does indeed

pretty horse

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Gray Wolf

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Wow, it would have been hard for me not to respond to that ugly message. They must get monies now and then with this message or they wouldn’t do it. I hope they catch the culprit and give them what for. So sorry this happened to you 🥰✌️
I composed an appropriate pithy reply in my mind's eye but decided it would be better to let the FBI sneak up on them, if in fact the feds do anything but take statistics anymore.

I infer they make money on the scheme just playing the law of averages that some do visit porn sites and that other not only don't but will report them to LEO.

I also doubt that I could introduce them to any new epithets or give them sage advice and council that their other would-be victims haven't already introduced them to, and which they just ignore as a cost of business or maybe focus on once they get a response.

The address on the letter was the former PO Box address for Skunk Pharm Research, LLC and the number was their business number.

I haven't used that PO Box since about 2018, so they're using old records and the number that they list isn't my smart phone which they claim to control, that mostly resides in my pocket, so their camera shots must be a hoot, as well as the periodic sound effects, given that I am an old fart after all.
 

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Good morning

Neighbors horse helping mow my lawn this morning

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And fertilize it!
Yeah most definitely a scam, in the past I've recieved a nearly identical email, almost word for word, at least in the part meant to be threatening. There was one noteable difference in the one I got, it didn't contain any address or phone number which obviously is meant to make you think he actually did get into your phone because he showed showed you your phone number and address (assuming those pieces of information are correct). Now in my case, like yours I knew it was fake because I hadn't visited any sites where I might be able to click thru any "girlie videos" more importantly though in mine he claimed to have turned on a camera on my computer to record me supposedly playing with myself while watching the videos he claimed I was watching. Just one problem though, I built my own computer and there is no camera within it anywhere, not even one built into the monitor. So there was no way he could have recorded a video of me doing anything let alone what he accused me of doing. Most likely he obtained my email address as part of a breach where user data was then sold on the dark web. His email was like most, likely the same as many other scam emails where they send out hundreds of emails to the addresses they bought, hoping for at least one of them would be received by someone who would believe it.

Now in my case I didn't report it to the police or FBI because I doubted they would be able to track him down and most likely if they did, he would be in a country where they couldn't touch him. So I just did like I usually do with such things. I deleted it and didn't give it another thought. Nothing ever happened nobody confronted me about a strange email with a video of me. Which kind of surprised me because I wouldn't put it past a scammer like this to create a video claiming to be me and send that out when I didn't comply to his threat. You did the right thing though even if he did record a video of you because ultimately they're looking for someone to give into them and send the money. If they ever found a person they were able to fool, I doubt they would just stop after that one time. They would know they got a phish on their hook and would keep doing whatever they could think of to get even more money. It's sad this sort of thing happens and even sadder that quite a few fall for such scams. Especially since there is usually obvious holes in their claims like in both our cases neither of us having ever been to the kind of site they claimed or also in my case claiming they recorded me on a camera that doesn't exist.
I took nothing in the letter seriously since it isn't true and is therefore an obvious scam.
 
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