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by irobeth 618 days ago
I recently started getting "targeted" bitcoin extortion emails that have your home address (or what they scraped from public records) and a picture of Google Street view, but they're all going to the email I used for a now-defunct online grocery
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Ha, same here. Including photos of my house (well, actually my neighbor's house) and everything.

I'd be worried if 1) I hadn't seen many versions of similarly creative extortion emails over the years, and 2) if they hadn't use some obvious "donotspamCompanyThatWasHacked@mydomain".

Sadly, I can see how this may trick some people into sending money to scammers.