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Originally Posted by Skie
There was a spate of phishing/scam emails not too long ago where people were receiving blackmail emails, basically "we know you visited greasygrannies.com and will make this public knowledge if you dont pay us £1k in bitcoin".
Whilst it was just a scam and the websites weren't actually visited, imagine those guys actually got hold of this database: they'd know what sites you'd submitted and could make fairly accurate threats and possibly even follow through on them. The original attempt was just a mass spam attempt to hopefully get a small number of fools, but actually being able to target people...
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In that scam they had got hold of Linked Ins emails and passwords, I know because I got one of them. They tried to say that we know your Linked in username is XXXXXXXX and password is XXXXXXX. if you don't send us the money we'll send a video to all your Linked In connections.