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This week only I've been threatened to have videos taken from my webcam released - unless I pay a ransom - and I was asked to pay due bills in the attached zip file twice. And that's only what my spam filter did not catch.

Given that they were targeted here, this person has a public mail address, so it's very likely they receive similar spam. Given that and the observation that they seem to be stressed by spam, this seems like a plausible assumption.



Its just too small of a sample size to make any real judgments. One short article isn't enough information to make any meaningful comments her stress levels.


Of course. But I think this was less of a judgement and more of a sympathizing comment [0], which doesn't really require that much hard evidence.

[0] At least when we assume good faith.


Ah I see what your saying! I personally took it more of a judgmental thing (especially with their second response) but I have no idea what the true intention was. Although I don't think my response was rude or anything, next time I will try to assume the best!




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