The funny side of spamming scammers

My gmail account is, as you might have guessed, reynardo. I managed to get it early, although I didn't use it for a year or so. (I was not so lucky with Twitter or Skype and a few other things, alas, which is why I'm "Reynardo_Red" in those places instead.)

"Reynardo" is apparently a name in use in Spanish-speaking areas. So obviously other people have tried to get reynardo as their gmail, failed, and are now using reynardoSomethingElse instead.

But they forget.

And they sign up for things and put their email address as reynardo, and then wonder why they don't get the confirmation emails, or the notification for their credit card, or the itinerary for their conference. I do try to contact the email senders for those ones to make sure the details get to the right person.

Now it looks like one of those mistaken locations has been hacked, and their passwords stripped. I have no idea which one it was, but one of these reynardoSomethingElse gmail users put my email instead, and now I've got this from some charming piece of rubbish:

I am aware [redacted Not A Password I use] is your pass words. Lets get directly to the purpose. No-one has compensated me to investigate about you. You do not know me and you're probably wondering why you're getting this e-mail?

[bit I'd never noticed before because it's in white-on-white and it has about 6 other passwords in there. I shall check next time I get one of these emails.]

Well, i setup a malware on the X video clips (pornographic material) web site and you know what, you visited this site to have fun (you know what i mean). When you were viewing videos, your internet browser initiated operating as a Remote Desktop with a keylogger which provided me access to your display screen and webcam.

You get the idea.

Apart from the the face that I always watch my porn from a private protected window I would never watch pr0n, I also have my webcam covered most of the time. I'd know if it was open. But I hope the other Reynardo has the sense that if they get one of these, they change all their passwords.