Scams from my junk mail folder

[Vladimir Drkulec]

These last few weeks I haven't been checking my junk folder as regularly. Today I did. A few people promising to give me large sums of money if I will just click on a link. Does anyone fall for these anymore?

The other is one that I have seen a lot of lately. They claim to have hacked all my devices and if I don't pay a certain sum in bitcoin to a certain account all will be revealed to my contact list. I thought these were kind of cool the first time I got one of them and would be a good premise for a thriller where the scammer sent them to the wrong person.

Alas every good idea is not unique. The Equalizer 3 with Denzel Washington and The Beekeeper with Jason Statham seem to cover this scenario quite well though in both cases it is some outside person righting the wrongs inflicted by these agents of chaos.

The latest deadline came and went without me seeing it and the consequences have been as toothless as one of Joe Biden's red lines.

If someone had control of all of my devices wouldn't it be a good idea to remove his email from the spam list or even to do the transfer to his bitcoin account directly without my intervention?