[ericbarrett]

I get spam emails all the time which claim to have webcam pics of the recipient in flagrante delicto, oh and here’s a Bitcoin address you should send to if you don’t want them public. Rubbish, of course, as there’s nothing targeted about them; just a cleverly-worded mass email disguised as an individual extortion attempt. The next obvious step, however, is sprinkling enough details in to make it more convincing. “I have pics of what you did in Thailand in January 2019” would surely generate a lot more concern in a subset of the recipients.

[tekstar]

When I get those I like to look up the bitcoin address on block explorer. Last time I checked one, two people had paid it out. No clue how many messages the spammer had sent, but there was at least a bit of payoff

[ericbarrett]

I haven’t looked in a while but I think every example, even though the text was identical, had a different address. So if the one you saw already had two transactions...

[BrandoElFollito]

Same here. I noticed they in the early days of the scam there were very payments (cannot say obviously if all were talked to that scam).

Then it was mostly empty wallets with the occasional one or two transactions.

The early scammers made a lot of money.