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Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Security researcher Graham Cluley says he has been forwarded a blackmail letter, sent to a member of the controversial Ashley Madison adultery website. In the letter the blackmailer says that unless $2,000 worth of bitcoin is paid within 10 days, the recipient's wife, friends and colleagues will be informed of his misdemeanors. In a threatening twist, the letter goes on to give personal details of another victim who refused to pay the blackmailers, and how his personal life and work were targeted as a result. Cluley's advice to recipients is not to pay the blackmailers, but to tell the U.S. Postal Inspectors Service.
>unless $2000 worth of bitcoin is not paid
This is what you get.
This is one of the few cases where I don't support the activities of any party involved; the hackers for what they did, the website for providing/promoting such blatant infidelity, nor the people who use the site.
However, in this case, the people I support the least are the people who took their marriage vows so lightly they're using a website to cheat. It's absolutely disgusting. You get what you deserve. What to avoid the collateral damage; don't cheat. But, since you're past that point; you might as well fess up to it; and make sure you tell your family you're only coming clean about it due to a threat of blackmail. It'll make them see your character for what it really is.
Quite frankly, screw everyone all around in this ordeal. It's disgusting we're still talking about this.
They will continue to blackmail you. Why wouldn't they when so successful the first time? It's not like they're trustworthy or anything. If you're stupid enough to get involved with Ashley Madison in the first place, then just fess up to your wife and family and deal with the consequences. But, in the end, most of us will have no sympathy for either the scumbags who use Ashley Madison or those who blackmail them.
It's interesting that in the letter, the blackmailer provides no information about the recipient apart from his name and address. He lists all of the information about his prior victim, but my guess is that it's all part of his ruse. I suspect that the websites are fake and the phone number is a line straight to the blackmailer, who will corroborate the story whenever any of the many recipients of his letters call.
This requires more money to set up than an email, but the blackmailer knows that ``The wicked flee when no man pursueth."
You don't send blackmail letters IN THE MAIL.
This is now a federal crime, and the post office inspectors office, and probably the FBI, gets involved. Since this is in the news, they will probably be very interested in this case, as well.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
That's a part of rape culture. What rape culture really means I've come to find doesn't really have anything to do with the act of rape. It's about FEEL GUILTY! As far as feminism is concerned, the fact that rape cultures require policies that can expel anybody assigned the male gender at birth for any baseless accusation of intention (not even an accusation of the act) is a pleasant side effect.
Also, GP probably considers any sexual act between a cisgendered woman and somebody assigned the male gender at birth to be rape. Why did I need to pull out the much-hated term cisgendered there? Lest we forget, trans women are guilty of metaphysical rape for violating the female form and invading women. I hate to break it to you, anti-SJWs, but this part of your transphobic rhetoric is straight out of 2nd wave feminism.
Logging in to post this even though it'll go to -1 by the top of the hour because what I'm saying is true. Anybody who doubts me should contact their state university and ask to be able to sit through a rape culture presentation. Also look up Camp Trans. They can educate you about feminism's utter hatred for trans women.
Rape culture outside of college campuses is a big reason I'm currently at cold war with feminism. Feminism wants to control my body in retaliation for their perception I want to control cis women's bodies, simply because I was involuntarily placed in a role in a women's health initiative that my cisfemale co-workers refused to participate in.
(Well, I suppose it was voluntary. I could have lost my job, my house, and starved to death instead. However, that's looking like the better choice in hindsight if the place I'm going next week to get my prescriptions renewed has also implemented rape culture.)
Disclaimer: this may hold true only in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and southern Ontario--basically anywhere within the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival reality distortion field, but I understand that rape cultures have been implemented at several other prominent universities across the USA.
So, you say that women do not cheat? I wonder all those cheating man [according to feminist 90 % at least] - with who are they cheating? Goats? Or are there 1000 super women on earth that can have 100 000 000 lovers each? Remember, when the scandal came out it was shown that 90 or more percent of the users of the site are men and everyone was like "see how terrible men are, bloody cheaters" , was I the only one that asked the question above?
I am so fed up with this crap!!! And your user name suggest you are a man! WTF? Get a grip of reality MAN!
I would wager that the kind of person who couldn't cheat without a web site couldn't cheat with Ashley Madison even if it wasn't a complete fraud, either.
They're probably not attractive or charismatic enough to attract a partner to begin with.