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For those of you who looked in the body of the email, and the sextortionist provided a bitcoin address, you can report it at “bitcoin abuse” here: https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/

On an unrelated note, I’ve actually been working with the hosting company to fix the hotmail/outlook issues (where the emails just disappear that send to users). Everything thus far I’ve tried that SHOULD have worked, has not. So, they’re digging deeper and I should that have fixed soonish. When the old issue occurred, Nexcess was a major help at that time as well. They tracked down the IPs of the persons who did this, and blocked them from the domain entirely. They have tools at their disposal I don’t, so if something happens, they’re the ones I go to help stop whatever the issue is.

Me too. Thank you for your help. It was your post in another thread that made me try updating my email.

I also get the webcam emails, and that cracks me up. I’ve NEVER had a webcam. I don’t WANT a webcam, and that they think they can scare me with webcam usage that never existed is just plain silly. Yes, this is an OLD issue, and these emails have been popping up ever since.

That’s useful to know! Wish I hadn’t deleted it now or I’d have reported it too. My rule of thumb is I’ll sometimes read spammy emails but I never click the links or open attachments/”view pictures”

I changed my email address from a hotmail to a gmail and was able to reset things just fine. I should’ve done a little more poking around the boards before I posted. Sorry for the trouble.

I’m going to contact you at the email address we have on file for you, just to make sure our information is current.

Yeah, it happened to me, too. I’ve changed all the passwords that I should have changed a year ago.

We’re pretty sure it’s related to the forum hack from last year. We definitely recommend changing your passwords, just to be safe, but I’ve been deleting this type of email frequently from the staff email address with impunity. I’ve avoided the temptation to point out that this is an adult fiction site, so really, it’s not like I’m going to be embarrassed that I read adult material. The email addresses sending the extortion requests are all disposable anyway, so the reply would only bounce back. :sigh: And thank you, Guest Mary_West for a post that was both highly intelligent and delightfully written!

It’s very useful, and I filed the latest one sent to the staff email address (I get a LOT of these in the staff email...)

This does seem a little familiar though... I like that you played around with the things you do and don't know about someone when you play an MMO together. You get to know their personalities, but things like their sex are actually very hard to guess at. The bit with Tweety was particularly good in that regard, with J guessing that the player has to either be a girl or a sex-crazed guy...and it turns out to be a normal guy with (apparently) a normal level of self-control. Speaking of the sex-crazed guys... That image made me laugh. There's that sense of deja vu again. Kind of reminds me of a Specific Anime Offering. Okay, for real though, while I'm guessing this owes something to SAO (or this is a weird coincidence), I don't want it to sound like I'm criticising you or anything. I have noticed important differences, including the fact that the players don't get to keep their avatars, but instead appear as their actual selves. This actually raises a rather important question: how much of their characters' abilities do they retain? I mean, I'm guessing from the title that J will still have her summoner powers, but does Tweety even have a bow anymore? This all certainly has me curious, and I'm looking forward to reading the next chapter! Okay, wow LOL! Just so you know, every time I get an email saying that I got a review, I have a mini panic attack! First, I want to tell you that I literally laughed out loud at the “Specific Anime Offering”. Yes, I’m guilty of this story being loosely based off of SAO so no it wasn’t just a weird coincidence. When I finally started to binge the anime, I knew I wanted to write something on the lines of it before finishing the series but I didn’t want to use the actual characters. Talking to the mods about it, I was reminded that this has been done before (Jumanji, etc.) so I made the decision to make this Original instead of a fanfic. The characters, at the time of the “entrapment”, do keep all of their items at the time. So, Tweety still has his bow, and J still has her abilities and summon monsters. One of these days I’ll come back to this story… and my other ones… >.> so thank you so much for the review!

Oh! Wonderful—glad that worked!

I tried to change my archive password, but all I get is a message saying “This password reset is no longer valid”. Could I get some help, please?