I don’t have a webcam on my computer. I suspected something like this, and wanted to avoid it. Now, someone please tell me again why iPhones and tablets are better.
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I got one today!
Pro tip, if you use black electrical tape it won’t spoil the sleek aesthetic styling of modern equipment. 
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… video of you masturbating to pornography, which he’ll release unless you send him some cryptocurrency.
Ha! I’ll just release my own video, then he’s got no leverage.
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This is where it all really falls flat. How are they supposed to know when you paid up?
The sad thing is the last one of these scams I got, I checked the Bitcoin address and it had prior payments in the ledger. 
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Oh good. Black Mirror is coming true.
I got the pre-password version of this a few months ago, on my work e-mail, which is usually insanely draconian with its spam filter such that half my legitimate e-mails end up there too. But this one made it through.
Of course, having been around teh intert00bz since before we had mockingly ironic names for it, I knew it was a scam. (That, and it said I was into ferret porn when in fact it’s muskrat porn, and they are TOTALLY different in ways that should be obvious even to a non-connoisseur.)
But in all seriousness, it was pretty disturbing, even as I was 100% sure it was a scam. I guess the brain registers even empty threats as threats. And for once the broken English really helps. It’s a bad look for the Nigerian prince who wants my bank account number, but it really helps sell the “I’m a sociopathic Belarusian teen hacker whiz whose only delight will be in spending your bitcoin or exposing your love of muskrats” thing.
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The accounts are free, and you can bookmark stuff you like to revisit later.
Or, uh, so I hear. The question is, who uses their actual email address for a porn-site account.
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