I receive pig butchering emails and phone calls all the time.
Some are blackmail emails that pretend they saw me doing something nasty through my webcam. I don't have a webcam.
I also have several email addresses that I do not use. Identical scams will come through more than one of those addresses at the same time.
I hover over the response link, and it's to some bizarro domain.
Yes, but I am talking about the initial opening communication.
> but there are “sextortion” scams where people are tricked into sending a naked photo
I have difficulty imagining how someone, even a teenager, can be tricked into sending a naked selfie to a stranger.
I do have a friend who responds to such entreaties with with a disgusting porn screen grab. They never bother him again!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses
For that matters my crew in the 1980s would never use the phone to talk about, say, selling weed, and how it is the children that run Facebook would document that they don’t want to control scam ads because they don’t want to lose the revenue is beyond me. Like if you send me an email about something I could conceivably have to explain in court I will slap you in person.