www.CostaRicaTicas.com

Dude: last time: That email didn't go to Ashley Madison. Give me a break. It went to five different ISP's (SHOTGUNS work@!!!) which the user was hopping through. That in and of itself is a violation of ANY isp's TOS let alone a blatant attempt at extortion. PERIOD.

PS: During the ping flood wars of the mid to late 1990's through 2001 the above method of having a flooder's ISP account closed proved to be very successful as when your access to the internet is removed, you are neutralized. Yes, many just signed on with different ISPs, but they eventually ran out of options depending on where the jackass was located. Many, many, many of the rat bastards had zero access to anything. The same was done to the Winnuke set. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke . I never ever fired back, I promise

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- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16

They sent a new scam today.

why did you block out the address?
sounds like a deal to me!

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riding the crest of a wave breaking just west of hollywood

I didn't block anything, this is copied and pasted word for word.

This outfit must be one of those groups of d-bags out of Nigeria or some other God forsaken shithole preying on gullible people...

Today''s email...



These motherfuckers deserve a bullet between the eyes.

Now wait a minute Orange, I see those guys as willing to promote your sex tape online for just $999. Sounds like a good deal to me! You'd only have to sell an extra 50 copies at $20 each to make that up!

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They will promote it for free…and will not promote of you send the money

Who could take this ridiculous scam seriously?? Not any worldly gents such as the members of this board

What terrible luck you've had lately Orange. First your AM account was revealed, then someone tries to extort you, then someone else got your sex tape and again another attempt at extortion ! That sucks, hang in there.

Personally if I got those emails and I could afford to "lose" (change) my email address, I'd be tempted to play around with these guys by email. "I sent the payment by Bitcoin, did you receive it ?"

Funny you say that because in my younger days when free time was not so limited, I used to bait these scammers. I was/am a member of the forum below which teaches how to bait these cocksuckers and waste their time. If you have some free time, and you are bored, read some of posts on that forum. These Nigerian mofo's re so greedy that you would be surprised what they are willing to do when they think there is so payout at the end of the road. You can bait them into going to a different town/city from Lagos to try and pick up the money. And you know they went because when they email you, you can trace their email header and know exactly where they are, as opposed to where they first emailed you from. The whole point of that forum is to keep these scumbags occupied chasing ghosts so they have less time to scam real victims.

http://www.419eater.com/

Sad part is that if they weren't succeeding they wouldn't keep doing it

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Yep, and it's people who don't have a lot that usually get scammed for their life savings. And surprisingly, even educated (intelligent?) people with money are suckered too (Cali cardiologist sent a few hundred thousand to these dousche bags.).

Watch this guy from Australia try to track down the scammers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HbvY1ZDhwg

The new one is dating sites. They pry on lonely, desperate people who will do stupid things hoping for love.

And there's the old Microsoft Tech Support scam. They send you an email about your system sending them errors about some virus which can cripple your system. You call and speak to somebody like "Ryan Wilson" (real name : Habib or something similar) who walks you through the steps of setting up a remote tech session where they get access to your entire computer. They pull up the command window and put typical commands that make all kinds of data appear on the screen and make you believe it's a virus. Then they try to hit you up for money to remove the virus and for a multi-year protection plan. It's a few hundred dollars. If you refuse, since they are connected to your computer, they drop a malicious code that either really fucks up your system, or can even start deleting all files.

Youtube has tons of videos on these 419 scams. And even some on the stings cops have set to catch these scumbags. However, most of the time, they sent a "partner" or some innocent person not involved in the scam as a courier to pick up the money. And they're the one who gets busted while the dirtball gets off to scam the next victim.

The problem is that these scams are all across the boarder, they never target victims in their own countries. So authorities have their hands tied when it comes to going after them.

The microsoft scam seems to be a bunch of Indians probably operating out of India.
I recognize the voices of my scammer countymen sorry to say.

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Today's email is downright frightful, if you don't know that it's a scam.

But it's hard to take these clowns seriously though. They're so incompetent that the deadline they set has passed 4 weeks ago.