The scammers are getting more creative.
For roughly one year, I have been getting junk email from alleged hackers who claim they have hijacked my computer and its camera.
For just a few hundred dollars in Bitcoin, they promise to return control of my computer, and they vow never to reveal any of the kinky things I do in my apartment or watch on the Web.
Since almost all teenagers have a guilty conscience about something, I will guess the alleged hackers have a much higher success ratio with the youngsters than they have with old men like me.
“...hackers who claim they have hijacked my computer and its camera.”
I got TONS of those several years ago and they stopped. I figured that scam had died out and there weren’t enough suckers left.
Recently I was getting tons of “Your Microsoft Community subscription will end” scam mails. The first one always makes you wonder “what do I do now?” but when #2 to #10 arrive, you know it’s a scam. The scammers are too stupid to make sure all their worldwide spambot networks are coordinated and don’t deliver the same message to the same user more than once.