Your privacy scam alert

A man at a computer terminal.

I got the email below yesterday:

Hi!

I know your password is: (A real password I haven't used for awhile)

Some time ago I infected your computer with mine private malware ( RAT ) Remote
Administration Tool.

I collected absolutly everything from your computer, your private photos, videos, all
contacts, I got access to all your accounts.

My malware even gave me control over your webcam and microphone, yes, such things exist,
you can google it!

WHILE YOU HAVE MASTRUBATED I RECORDED A VIDEO OF YOU (through your webcam)!!!

You know this all isn't a joke! You got the proof above!

After that I removed the malware, right now it's no longer on your computer.

What you think will happen, if I publish absolutly everything on social network, to all
your contacts, and everywhere else?!

We both know that your life won't be the same.

So I give you the chance to stop me, pay exactly: 1500$ with bitcoin.

I think it's a very good price, compared to living hell.

If you don't know where to buy bitcoin, Google: "Where to buy bitcoin?", it's
very easy for example with credit card.

The use of the password bothered me because I've always been extremely careful with passwords.
What made me discount this entirely was the fact that not only have I never masturbated at my computer terminal (honest!), I don't have a webcam. 
Scams like this are a numbers game for the scammer. If they'd bought 100,000 email addresses with old passwords on the dark web and emailed them all and got just 5,000 gullible masturbators to fork over the money, they'd have made a cool $7.5 million, all without leaving their dank little basement. The trade off is that they'll have lived a life without honor. 
To report scams like this, go the the FBI's website: https://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx
 

Busted?

Why does the Complete and Total Loser hate scammers so much? He's referring to actual people who con others, not about the "lottery officials" preying on the elderly or Internet ne'er do wells. He's talking about small-time types like the man in the picture, who frequents his city's train platforms and tell commuters a hard-luck story of needing just a few bucks so he can get home. 
Really, it's not an amount that will ruin anyone's financial picture. You could even argue that he's providing a service by helping people feel good about themselves for having given money to someone who's not an alcoholic or a drug addict (though chances are, he is one of the two). 
There's just something about seeing it happen around him that raises his ire. Look! Someone's lying and breaking the law right there! 
He emailed information and the photo to the transit police. Maybe he'll be stopped, but there are many others like him and there has been since the first person with an ox cart began charging others to ride in it.
The Loser knows, of course, that if you're ever on a train or bus and have no money, they give you a form to fill out promising to reimburse them for the ride (he's seen this happen) and hope they get it.