I just received a blackmail e-mail...

[First Speaker]

...telling me to send someone who calls themselves "Kaitlyn" 2.000 dollars in Bitcoin, or they will expose my secret shames to the world. Well, all I can say is, at my age, they're welcome to any secrets they can get. I deleted the e-mail...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good move on your part. Those are probably phishing expeditions, or spam. n/t

[First Speaker]

2. That's what I figured. There's too much to worry about in the world right now...

...to add this to the list...

[dameatball]

3. What if one of my secret shames is not being able to figure out bitcoins? What a dilemma!

[LAS14]

5. I'm with you! I wouldn't have a clue how to give anyone anything in bitcoin. nt

[Dr Vegas]

4. I got one to my Gmail last month

shook me up a bit because it referred to my name here, but then it said it had pictures of me through my web cam.
I don't have a web cam. I report it to Google as phishing and deleted the email

[Skittles]

6. "I don't care what anyone says about me, as long as it isn't true"

[leftieNanner]

7. I got one a while ago

Deleted it too. It said he was going to take over my entire computer if I didn't pay him.

I didn't. And he didn't.

[Martin Eden]

8. The subject title of the blackmail email I received was one of my passwords

The password was one I had used quite a bit in the past, but only in one of my current forums (which I changed after being notified it was compromised).

Same kind of threat -- sending shameful web cam images of myself to all my contacts, but I knew there were no such images. I deleted the email, blocked the source as spam, and haven't gotten another in the 10 days since.

[pandr32]

10. Ditto here

Same, same, same.

[abqtommy]

9. The last time I got an email like that I called the cops to report it and I was told that they were

aware of it. Well, ok then...

[keithbvadu2]

11. Is it something you can be proud of?

[hunter]

12. My dragon Spot deals with people like that.

Does ze eat them? Burn out their domiciles? Drop acid shit on their automobiles? Seduce their lovers with invitations to tea?

My secret shame is that I don't feel guilty about it any more.

I was raised a good Christian to feel guilty and ashamed about so many things. Every personal moral failure, that was me nailing Christ to His Cross.

Becoming dragon chattel freed me to be myself and I'm really not such a bad person as I once believed.

[retread]

13. "Secret shames"?? You mean looking back to when I was a young man and after thanking the

Goddess there were no cell phones or internet, thinling, "Damn!! I can't believe I did that! WTF was I thinking??"