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Idiotic spammers trying to extort me, claiming they hacked my webcam and got video of me jerking off, so I have to pay them on bitcoin. (lemmy.ml)
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Plot twitst: I dont have any webcams. Lol.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This works but has a number of downsides.

Eg hackers just have to remove the +portion to have your email address. You also can't send emails out via any of those addresses.

https://simplelogin.io/blog/email-alias-vs-plus-sign/