Tough decision ahead. Do I pay a blackmailer or face public exposure.

Don't pay the asshole. Sorry.

So happy I have P411,

or better yet, set up a police sting and put them in jail.  Best to confer with a lawyer about that.

Unless they supply credible evidence, they're just on a phishing expedition... but, somehow, I think you know that.

It's not a "tough decision" at all.  

who had spent a couple of weeks on AM before realizing all the MILF's there have GPS, but when their customer files got hacked, he started getting emails AND a few letters in the mail with the same kinds of blackmail threats.  They claimed they had all of his PM's and photos he posted on the site.  His main concern was that one of the threats would be that they would send all of their "evidence" to his neighbors if he didn't pay.  I went through the letter with him and showed him how it was all a big bluff.  He didn't post any photos and he used a screen name that nobody can prove is his.  Also, only the credit card info, including the billing address, was stolen, not the communications with other members.  I convinced him to ignore it and after a few months, it all stopped and went away.  He was on the verge of coming clean with his wife as the best alternative.  Talk about a lose-lose.  

You got a letter saying they know the secret you've been keeping...
Did they go in to detail of what they know? Was this letter from the uncrowded Prince of Zimbabwe?
Close your eyes and throw a rock.... you're gonna hit someone with a secret. Unless it's from someone YOU know that knows what you do in private, or they have provided innate details of your " indescretions", I would chalk it up to a very lame, lazily planned and executed scam. Myself.... I'm like gaga...." oh, your gonna tell ppl I pay to sleep with beautiful, sexually charged women?" You'd sooner get me to shelll out if you had evidence of me fucking some 160 pounder in a drunken stupor. Just saying... as described by you, it sounds more reticent of a scam than something to legitimately be concerned with.

I "might" give into a blackmailer if the letter started off like this

I'm not a pillar of society. They could post a pic of my face on a billboard and nothing would happen. Is that good or bad?  

Didn't hurt my brand at all.

If it doesn't get all over the place  
it doesn't belong in your face.

You seem to think you are the resident know it all who paints with HUGE brush strokes and is wrong at least 50% of the time.

Hate CDL all you'd like, he's right way more than 50% of the time.

but that doesn't mean he is always wrong either. lol

You might be looking at a spam. I know a few providers that have received the same type of e-mail and it's possible that a mined mailing list from a newer classified type site may be the source.  I'm pretty sure that everyone has a "secret" of some sort and everyone will read into it what they will. There has been all kinds of BS scams like this going on.  I've had several clients contact me about the same thing in recent days and it all seems to lead back to one unfortunate trail. Sadly, I can't call anyone out and jeopardize being attacked directly. However, it may not be a coincidence that crypto "brokers" seem to be behind the scenes of this group.  
Providers continue to scramble for work and signing up wherever possible to see what works. Fortunately, not putting real info into the hands of the unknown is a rule of thumb that works for everyone to prevent crap like this.
Hopefully things will get better for us all over time and we will soon discover our new norm.  
Stay safe everyone.
Kisses, Austin Love

I got one of these a few years ago. Pretty sure they are sending the same mass email to the Ashley Madison list that circulated back a few years ago. If this was an email they sent you and not a letter with any detail, they likely don't have your address, your real name... much of anything.  

I would think you would have had time to create something insightful and intelligent to say.  This is such a disappointment.  I doubt many will look forward to whatever pearl of wisdom you choose to bestow on us next year.  

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to allow for exceptions to the norm.  Naturally, if what you say about yourself is true, and since I haven't seen you, nor am I likely to because of your age, I have no reason to doubt your claims of your prices rising to keep up with your age, regardless of how much that goes against the norm with other providers in general.  Kudos to you if you can pull it off while pushing 60.  I will try to be more circumspect in allowing for exceptions, but please be aware that when I make a "broad-brush" comment, its usually stating the conventional wisdom on a particular topic.  My opinions are usually within the mainstream of other mongers here.  I have learned the hard way to make a conscious effort to avoid statements including the words "all", "every" or "any", because, as I said, there are often exceptions to the norm.  I guess you could argue that, if you are an exception, it makes you exceptional.  I'm okay with that, but you still wouldn't get any of my business.  Like GaG, for me its an age thing, nothing to do with service.  

If they actually knew anything, they would have specifically told you what.  Ignore it.

The FBI has issued a warning about it:

That even though I'm a normal sized person, I buy my hats at the "Big and Tall" men's store?  While we're handing out back-handed compliments, I will add that YOU are not ALWAYS wrong either.  Lol

Hence the once a year drop by.Allow me to recommend something to you, GET A LIFE...There's more to it then trolling a fuck board.
See you next year, I know you can hardly wait..lol. By the way, do you still cruise by your high school with your JV lettermans jacket?

It beats real work, for example.

As suspected this is hardly something unique to the OP. Nor is it worth losing even a minute of sleep over.

to try to justify stupid.  I have a great life, much better than yours, I'm sure.  I own a few companies, and have great people managing them for me, which affords me the LUXURY of being able to sit in my office  in front of two computers, one logged onto our company servers so I can monitor what's going on, and the other one logged onto TER.  I DO work about 25 hours a week, which is why my time spent with hookers is only 6-8 hours a week on average.  Lately I've had a working girl as a real life girlfriend, so I have been spending weekends with her, but am still able to see a few other girls for two-hour sessions during the week.  As Fisher so aptly puts it, Mongering is more than a hobby, its a lifestyle, but I can see where that concept would escape the marginal players who have to save up their money to see one girl for an hour each month.  The value in a community board like this is to share tips and info from our own experiences with our fellow mongers, and to make contact with providers you might like to see, but if you have nothing to share due to your own lack of experience and/or resources, then remaining a lurker is probably your best move.  

The Blackmailer is breaking several laws such as Extortion and many others.  Law enforcement and the courts would punish the blackmailer and not you if you reported the blackmailer.  

A very nice Indian man from Microsoft Tech Support called me this morning to alert me of a dangerous situation with my computer. He was very helpful and seemed so genuinely concerned for my well being that I asked his opinion.

I'm just happy when they cum for me

Pompous know it all types who just can't help but talk about how many girls they've seen, gotten OTC with, blah blah blah are not my type.  Oh and talking about the SoCal boards like they were the be all end all, yeah that too.  

I am most assuredly NOT a know-it-all type.  I am a know-it-ALMOST-all type.  As Sauce says, I'm right "way more than 50% of the time", but not ALWAYS right, and I can count on our mutual friend GaG to call me on it on the occasions I get it wrong, and I will step up and say, "I stand corrected", and I have no problem making a public apology, something you have NEVER done, regardless of how egregiously you behaved.  

As I recall, the Ashley Madison hack of a few years ago linked credit card info with user posting data.  It caused several public figures to be exposed, so it was real.  My info got out there too and I got the blackmail letters.  In this case there were so many that they didn't concentrate on any particular people.  So it was safe to ignore them, as they would spend their time on those who bit.

2 years later and there is still some fishy stuff going on with Ashley Madison I'm sure. There's no way that they recovered from the massive data hack.

Absolutely agree. If these fucking people put as much attention into making money the right way instead of trying to scam others, they'd eventually get rich without hurting anyone.  

that means you don’t have one or you don’t know what z great life truly is!!

Which includes the 20 months TER was dark in the US.  Only a complete loser would go back two years to call me out on a post.  Just to show you what a waste of time and how it ineffective it was, I will confirm I have a great life.  For nearly 12 years I have averaged 12-15 sessions a month, many were two hours, and in September I topped the $1,000,000 mark in pussy spending.  I’ve started working on my second mil. So absolutely, it’s good to be me. It only sucks to be you, not getting laid, self-employed because nobody will hire you and no employees because you can’t afford any.  Sorry, no matter how jealous you are and how bad you want it, you can’t be me.  You are condemned to be you.  I can only imagine what a living hell it must be.

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lots of scammers out there, we received those via email ALL THE TIME.  
I'll say f**k it and delete.

than resurrecting old threads.  If its an old post, you just link to it.  You don't bring the whole 2-year-old thread back to the top of page one.  I thought you were smarter than to post something this stupid.  Apparently not.  Being the top poster on the P & R board, I thought you would be more savvy.  

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> I topped the $1,000,000 mark

all over again, then I saw this was two years ago, lol.  We are much more cordial to each other now!  

we kissed and made up.  When TER went dark in the US, the few of  us left had to stick together and support each other.    

And probably IS as foolish as it sounds.  I'm single, so there is no one looking over my shoulder or chastising me about how I spend my money.  Sometimes, I think there should be.  Lol

the Magical "R" for "reasonable?"  I would agree with you .  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWv42U1l4A
Bill Maher: New Rule. The Magical R.

as a partisan political commentary by a Leftie, right?  That hardly makes it a factual statement.

when someone resurrects  an old thread.  

The more you defend more you prove my point, you village parasite

Just read your own email and you will see how pathetic your life is.  
On a different topic: 25% of the dole that you took form our tax money, you don't have to spend on paychecks. So how much is that for your 'imaginary' pussy money of $1 mil?
You Cock Du licker!!!

I have never considered it an "investment" before, but now that I think of it, no matter how much I have spent on hookers I've gotten a lot better "return on investment" than if I had gotten married again. lol I can imagine what life could be like for me right now. I could have remarried, stopped drinking, stopped gambling, stopped fucking hookers, IOW stopped living in general and created a nice big stack of money over the last couple of decades only to lose all or most of it once I finally figured out that I was living a lie, and by now my second ex-wife would probably be spending all those millions on the pool boy. lol

just like me.  We are both having more fun that we probably deserve and I hope it never ends until we're in a box.  Lol

Reminds me of an old BB King (?) song -- paraphasing a bit here:
   I didn't say I *had* a million dollars
   I said I spent a million dollars

W.C.Fields quote . . . . .

All I wanna know is Steph,  MatureGFE, when you're gonna let me have my way with you?!  

More rabid jealousy from a guy that can't afford to be a monger, so he has become gentlegay1020.  He doesn't have to pay anymore, he just bends over and gets all the sex he wants.   Between TER and AF, I have posted over 700 reviews, in clearer detail than you or anybody else here.  Go ahead and try to convince anyone that my $1 million over 12 years was "imaginary."  Its only imaginary for a guy like you who cleans pools and doesn't have any employees bringing in money for you.  I have friends that have spent two or three times what I spent so far on pussy.