CNBC and others, like KrebsOnSecurity, are highlighting scammers spamming affluent neighborhoods with letters declaring “I know you cheated on your wife.”
Jennifer Schlesinger and Andrea Day write (excerpt):
“The amount of money is such that it’s not so much that someone might be willing to just pay that to make it go away,” said Patrick Wyman, a supervisory special agent with the FBI’s money laundering unit. “They’re hoping that they might get lucky with someone who actually … [has] some infidelity there. And if they hit that target, that’s a person who’s probably willing to pay.”