Hello My Perverted Friend

It seems to me that extortion is incredibly difficult to prevent. I imagine most people have weak spots that are potentially exploitable with only a few weeks of effort.

So I have to wonder why it isn’t more common, and why spam emails and spam callers are still widely used when it clearly has greater exposure risk.

Is it that the punishment for spam is more relaxed than the punishment for targeted extortion? Or maybe targeted extortion would reveal more about the criminal? Perhaps spam emails, while highly exposed, do offer some level of anonymity that is greater than extortion. Or perhaps the thieves prefer to live stable lives and extorting people in a specific area would make them a greater target.

Just trying to figure out why spam emails is still a thing.

This email in particular is extremely prevalent. Always with spaces breaking up the text in different spots as a rudimentary filter bypass measure.

It has been running in this form with only the most minor of changes to the text for years. There have been times when emails I monitor have gotten 10+ of this message in a single day.

Covert messages in spam? What will we think of next?