by Dexter36 » Sat Dec 15, 2012 4:05 pm
Like so many stories on here I was stupid enough to get caught in a moment on Skype after meeting a girl in a chat room and then the dreaded message came up that all my friends and family would be contacted and a video of myself on a facebook link was sent to me on IM. I didn't know anything about this type of scam and panicked like so many do, after squabbling with this person on Skype for about half hour I decided I couldn't risk the video being put on facebook and agreed to pay £300 via Union Western.
The money was picked up the next day and I thought that would be it (I've no idea yet how to explain why I transferred £300 out of my account to my wife yet, but that's a different story), but I've received another mail stating that they expect the same next month and will be emailing me on 13th January.
From reading these forums (and I wish I had earlier) it would seem that these are empty threats, so should I just ignore any further mails from this person? Just for info the girl was called Karla Collins and has a Skype and Hotmail account in that name.