Blackmail threat email received

[SteScouse]

Real life these days is the latest i phone, sad

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Scammers need to be a bit more imaginative I think and do their homework.

If I got a blackmail email threatening to post a load of my really terrible welds (not the usual ones....I mean the ones where I pulled the trigger, carried on welding but didn't realise the gas was off!!!) on my favourite welding forum I'd pay up straight away

 

[RichardM]

^^^^ I agree. They need to up their game, they were going to send a video to all my Facebook contacts and I'm not even on there

 

[HughF]

I spend probably an hour a week training our spam filter and working through quarantine backlogs.... Spam is probably 4 times the volume of real mail.

 

[GRW]

I had a spate of calls where they told me the Warranty period was about to expire on my washing machine, and they were contacting me to offer me an extended warranty.

I asked every one of them "which of my machines, I have 2?" and insisted they named the marque.
Not one guessed correctly, and I indulged myself by giving them instructions on how to go forth & multiply.

 

[brightspark]

I had a spate of calls where they told me the Warranty period was about to expire on my washing machine, and they were contacting me to offer me an extended warranty.

I asked every one of them "which of my machines, I have 2?" and insisted they named the marque.
Not one guessed correctly, and I indulged myself by giving them instructions on how to go forth & multiply.

i get em ringing up and say we are just ringing you up about the accident you have had ohh yes which one are we talking about ive had 3 hmm the phones gone dead

 

[MattF]

If a hacker ever tried to follow what I browsed they would probably end up with perforated eardrums courtesy of Led zep or die of boredom reading about trees and engineering

Bob

They wouldn't end up trying to buy some mind bleach then?

 

[Cobbler]

When they ring up & say is that mr …… & they reply can I speak to …. Answer no it’s the undertaker, that shuts them up.

 

[Other Daniel]

Hey there! Hope it's never too late to update this important thread. Still glad to see you had a good laugh over the blackmail threat you received. But it's not a laughing matter. These scammers are serious business. Don't let them get to you. Always take the necessary precautions to protect your personal information.

Hello, and welcome to the forum.
Good thread resurrection.

 

[Blobber]

118, I used to get a few a week obviously from a far away land trying to get me to advertise but not so many lately, I block the number but they must have hundreds of the things so from about 6 months ago I tell them not to ring or they will get verbally abused and boy do they get it, its quite therapeutic for me really!!

 

[Onoff]

In my local area they scammers have been going to local dogging sites and filming activity then taking the car numbers and somehow obtaining the details and writing letters to the owners demanding money which is pretty scary stuff but all i can say is balaclava £5 and £20 for a pair of number plates registered to my ex brother in law

According to a deviant ex colleague who partook, bogging is in fact the correct term. It's only dogging when done by folk under the pretence "I'm just taking the dog for a walk love!"

What I want to know is what do you do with the dog whilst...you know...

 

[Cobbler]

An ex colleague of mine always laughing said “my dogs a daddy” he was out with the dog on the local common & the dog shot off, it had spotted a couple at it in one of the dillies. The dog, being a dog thought this is fun & jumped on the fellows back! A few months went by & he spotted the girl starting to swell, must have been a critical moment

 

[brightspark]

According to a deviant ex colleague who partook, bogging is in fact the correct term. It's only dogging when done by folk under the pretence "I'm just taking the dog for a walk love!"

What I want to know is what do you do with the dog whilst...you know...

here this is funny

 

[GRW]

According to a deviant ex colleague who partook, bogging is in fact the correct term. It's only dogging when done by folk under the pretence "I'm just taking the dog for a walk love!"

What I want to know is what do you do with the dog whilst...you know...

I saw a part of some "documentary" on the dogging thing years ago.
From the collection of folk I saw on that - well I didn't see anyone who'd have been below a "20-Pinter" for anyone interested in either gender (yes, I my world there are only 2).
A nocturnal equivalent of an episode of Baywatch it most certainly was not.
No way I'd have wanted to watch, let alone partake.

 

[Olderisbetter]

If you like a comedy song look on youtube for Fascinating Aida singing the dogging song.

 

[pedrobedro]

I can tell you a story about that

When I was at infant school I had a friend who much later turned to crime as a means of making a living. We had grown up together so I never really classed him as being a bad un. He was at my wedding so he knew the wife. One day he decided to get himself a sawn off shotgun and along with an accomplice they went to rob the local post office. It just so happened that my wife was in the Post Office, with my eldest son in buggy, collecting the family allowance.....He burst in wearing a full face black balaclava but my missus knew it was him so she didnt flinch even though all those around her were throwing themselves to the floor........He looked across at her and said "hey up Pat" and proceeded to demand money from the Post Master.
She had been paid out so she left before he did and didnt even tell me all about it until that evening.

Needless to say the Police were waiting for my friend when he got home....he got 7 years

Years ago there was one like him here in the pub and told his mate he was going next door to the bank for some cash. He was a bit worse for wear and next minute the police were all over the bank. He only tried to hold up the bank with a banana in his coat pocket but being a bit drunk didn't hide it very well. I think he only got 4 years.