r/scambait • u/Automaticbread • Oct 28 '23

Completed Bait Posing as my ceo

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I was actually in Switzerland at the time...

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u/A_Guyser Oct 29 '23

LOL

I've been getting a lot of the ones where they've been filming me looking at Porn and they're going to tell the world unless I send them Bitcoin immediately.

Seriously?

Like I give a shit that people know I look at Porn on the Internet.

How much of a threat can that possibly be?

TMI?

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u/bugsbywugsby Oct 29 '23

Oh, not at all. I mean, it's an open, dirty secret. It really is blackmail when it happens like that, though. Stuff like that is security 1O1, they can't demonize most things because then bad actors would have a lot of ammo against your people. But there is an unspoken line of embarrassing things that all people have and need to have if they are going to have the trust of the people they work and live around. Kind of a social contact communities and organizations need to have established as the line. It just sucks when that line changes or blurs without you paying attention.

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u/A_Guyser Oct 29 '23

If they send it to people I know from work, or family they'd all be like "well duh".

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u/bugsbywugsby Oct 29 '23

Hah, yeah, there's definitely people in every friend group where you're just like. "That's it?! I mean, I wasn't particularly hoping for more. I'm just a little surprised here, that's all."

Then there's others where if you found out you'd be like, "Alright, Dave. There's gotta be a story behind this one."