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Sunday, September 15, 2024
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Sunday, September 3, 2023
Good day
Hello good friend,
Good day and how are you today? I hope all is well with you and your family? I am using this opportunity to inform you that the multi million-dollar business that we both are working on before has been finally concluded with the assistance of another partner from Iceland who financed the transaction to a logical conclusion. The fund wasn't transferred into your account due to one reason or the other. And for my kind gesture I have left an ATM Card for you worth $3,750.000 USD ( three Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand United States Dollars Only) To show my appreciation for your pass assistance. I must confess, you are truly a humble and a sincere person.
However, I will gladly appreciate and happier wherever I am to hear that you have received your ATM Card; It will be a great honor to me because you deserve it. and do to my new business establishment with my new partner in Iceland I will be very busy for a very long time. Kindly contact him now Rev Lawrence Mensa With the below information to enable him to negotiate with the courier company for the delivery of your ATM Card to you,
Contact person: Rev Lawrence Mensa Email: lawmensa@aliyun.com
Therefore you should send him your full Name and telephone number/your correct mailing address where you want him to send the ATM card to you. This information is what will enable him to deliver the ATM Card to you. as I have left instructions on your behalf.
Thanks for your pass effort and God bless you and your family.
Hoping to hear from you.
Regards,
Mrs. Precious Mpho
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachment(s) are intended for a specific person(s). It may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not distribute or copy it. Please delete and advise me by return email or telephone. Thank you.
AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALITÉ: Ce courriel (et toute pièce jointe) est destiné strictement à son ou ses destinataire(s). Son contenu peut être confidentiel ou privilégié. Si cette communication vous est parvenue par erreur, veuillez ne pas la distribuer et ne pas la reproduire. Veuillez la supprimer entièrement de tout système électronique et m'aviser immédiatement par retour de courriel ou par appel téléphonique. Merci.
Good day and how are you today? I hope all is well with you and your family? I am using this opportunity to inform you that the multi million-dollar business that we both are working on before has been finally concluded with the assistance of another partner from Iceland who financed the transaction to a logical conclusion. The fund wasn't transferred into your account due to one reason or the other. And for my kind gesture I have left an ATM Card for you worth $3,750.000 USD ( three Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand United States Dollars Only) To show my appreciation for your pass assistance. I must confess, you are truly a humble and a sincere person.
However, I will gladly appreciate and happier wherever I am to hear that you have received your ATM Card; It will be a great honor to me because you deserve it. and do to my new business establishment with my new partner in Iceland I will be very busy for a very long time. Kindly contact him now Rev Lawrence Mensa With the below information to enable him to negotiate with the courier company for the delivery of your ATM Card to you,
Contact person: Rev Lawrence Mensa Email: lawmensa@aliyun.com
Therefore you should send him your full Name and telephone number/your correct mailing address where you want him to send the ATM card to you. This information is what will enable him to deliver the ATM Card to you. as I have left instructions on your behalf.
Thanks for your pass effort and God bless you and your family.
Hoping to hear from you.
Regards,
Mrs. Precious Mpho
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachment(s) are intended for a specific person(s). It may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not distribute or copy it. Please delete and advise me by return email or telephone. Thank you.
AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALITÉ: Ce courriel (et toute pièce jointe) est destiné strictement à son ou ses destinataire(s). Son contenu peut être confidentiel ou privilégié. Si cette communication vous est parvenue par erreur, veuillez ne pas la distribuer et ne pas la reproduire. Veuillez la supprimer entièrement de tout système électronique et m'aviser immédiatement par retour de courriel ou par appel téléphonique. Merci.
Saturday, August 6, 2022
Don't miss your unsettled payment. Complete your debt payment now.
Hi there!
I regret to inform you about some sad news for you.
Approximately a month or two ago I have succeeded to gain a total access to all your devices utilized for browsing internet.
Moving forward, I have started observing your internet activities on continuous basis.
Go ahead and take a look at the sequence of events provided below for your reference:
Initially I bought an exclusive access from hackers to a long list of email accounts (in today's world, that is really a common thing, which can arranged via internet).
Evidently, it wasn't hard for me to proceed with logging in your email account (tcdunlop.a-countdown@blogger.com).
Within the same week, I moved on with installing a Trojan virus in Operating Systems for all devices that you use to login to email.
Frankly speaking, it wasn't a challenging task for me at all (since you were kind enough to click some of the links in your inbox emails before).
Yeah, geniuses are among us.
Because of this Trojan I am able to gain access to entire set of controllers in devices (e.g., your video camera, keyboard, microphone and others).
As result, I effortlessly downloaded all data, as well as photos, web browsing history and other types of data to my servers.
Moreover, I have access to all social networks accounts that you regularly use, including emails, including chat history, messengers, contacts list etc.
My unique virus is incessantly refreshing its signatures (due to control by a driver), and hence remains undetected by any type of antiviruses.
Hence, I guess by now you can already see the reason why I always remained undetected until this very letter...
During the process of compilation of all the materials associated with you,
I also noticed that you are a huge supporter and regular user of websites hosting nasty adult content.
Turns out to be, you really love visiting porn websites, as well as watching exciting videos and enduring unforgettable pleasures.
As a matter of fact, I was not able to withstand the temptation, but to record certain nasty solo action with you in main role,
and later produced a few videos exposing your masturbation and cumming scenes.
If until now you don't believe me, all I need is one-two mouse clicks to make all those videos with everyone you know,
including your friends, colleagues, relatives and others.
Moreover, I am able to upload all that video content online for everyone to see.
I sincerely think, you certainly would not wish such incidents to take place, in view of the lustful things demonstrated in your commonly watched videos,
(you absolutely know what I mean by that) it will cause a huge adversity for you.
There is still a solution to this matter, and here is what you need to do:
You make a transaction of $950 USD to my account (an equivalent in bitcoins, which recorded depending on the exchange rate at the date of funds transfer),
hence upon receiving the transfer, I will immediately get rid of all those lustful videos without delay.
After that we can make it look like there was nothing happening beforehand.
Additionally, I can confirm that all the Trojan software is going to be disabled and erased from all devices that you use. You have nothing to worry about,
because I keep my word at all times.
That is indeed a beneficial bargain that comes with a relatively reduced price,
taking into consideration that your profile and traffic were under close monitoring during a long time frame.
If you are still unclear regarding how to buy and perform transactions with bitcoins - everything is available online.
Below is my bitcoin wallet for your further reference: 1DnDfzKAjTYWcn6nCVfkXLh5RRaGBUZ7nE
All you have is 48 hours and the countdown begins once this email is opened (in other words 2 days).
The following list includes things you should remember and avoid doing:
> There's no point to try replying my email (since this email and return address were created inside your inbox).
> There's no point in calling police or any other types of security services either. Furthermore, don't you dare sharing this info with any of your friends.
If I discover that (taking into consideration my skills, it will be really simple, because I control all your systems and continuously monitor them) -
your nasty clip will be shared with public straight away.
> There's no point in looking for me too - it won't result in any success. Transactions with cryptocurrency are completely anonymous and untraceable.
> There's no point in reinstalling your OS on devices or trying to throw them away. That won't solve the issue,
since all clips with you as main character are already uploaded on remote servers.
Things that may be concerning you:
> That funds transfer won't be delivered to me.
Breathe out, I can track down everything right away, so once funds transfer is finished,
I will know for sure, since I interminably track down all activities done by you (my Trojan virus controls all processes remotely, just as TeamViewer).
> That your videos will be distributed, even though you have completed money transfer to my wallet.
Trust me, it is worthless for me to still bother you after money transfer is successful. Moreover, if that was ever part of my plan, I would do make it happen way earlier!
We are going to approach and deal with it in a clear manner!
In conclusion, I'd like to recommend one more thing... after this you need to make certain you don't get involved in similar kind of unpleasant events anymore!
My recommendation - ensure all your passwords are replaced with new ones on a regular basis.
I regret to inform you about some sad news for you.
Approximately a month or two ago I have succeeded to gain a total access to all your devices utilized for browsing internet.
Moving forward, I have started observing your internet activities on continuous basis.
Go ahead and take a look at the sequence of events provided below for your reference:
Initially I bought an exclusive access from hackers to a long list of email accounts (in today's world, that is really a common thing, which can arranged via internet).
Evidently, it wasn't hard for me to proceed with logging in your email account (tcdunlop.a-countdown@blogger.com).
Within the same week, I moved on with installing a Trojan virus in Operating Systems for all devices that you use to login to email.
Frankly speaking, it wasn't a challenging task for me at all (since you were kind enough to click some of the links in your inbox emails before).
Yeah, geniuses are among us.
Because of this Trojan I am able to gain access to entire set of controllers in devices (e.g., your video camera, keyboard, microphone and others).
As result, I effortlessly downloaded all data, as well as photos, web browsing history and other types of data to my servers.
Moreover, I have access to all social networks accounts that you regularly use, including emails, including chat history, messengers, contacts list etc.
My unique virus is incessantly refreshing its signatures (due to control by a driver), and hence remains undetected by any type of antiviruses.
Hence, I guess by now you can already see the reason why I always remained undetected until this very letter...
During the process of compilation of all the materials associated with you,
I also noticed that you are a huge supporter and regular user of websites hosting nasty adult content.
Turns out to be, you really love visiting porn websites, as well as watching exciting videos and enduring unforgettable pleasures.
As a matter of fact, I was not able to withstand the temptation, but to record certain nasty solo action with you in main role,
and later produced a few videos exposing your masturbation and cumming scenes.
If until now you don't believe me, all I need is one-two mouse clicks to make all those videos with everyone you know,
including your friends, colleagues, relatives and others.
Moreover, I am able to upload all that video content online for everyone to see.
I sincerely think, you certainly would not wish such incidents to take place, in view of the lustful things demonstrated in your commonly watched videos,
(you absolutely know what I mean by that) it will cause a huge adversity for you.
There is still a solution to this matter, and here is what you need to do:
You make a transaction of $950 USD to my account (an equivalent in bitcoins, which recorded depending on the exchange rate at the date of funds transfer),
hence upon receiving the transfer, I will immediately get rid of all those lustful videos without delay.
After that we can make it look like there was nothing happening beforehand.
Additionally, I can confirm that all the Trojan software is going to be disabled and erased from all devices that you use. You have nothing to worry about,
because I keep my word at all times.
That is indeed a beneficial bargain that comes with a relatively reduced price,
taking into consideration that your profile and traffic were under close monitoring during a long time frame.
If you are still unclear regarding how to buy and perform transactions with bitcoins - everything is available online.
Below is my bitcoin wallet for your further reference: 1DnDfzKAjTYWcn6nCVfkXLh5RRaGBUZ7nE
All you have is 48 hours and the countdown begins once this email is opened (in other words 2 days).
The following list includes things you should remember and avoid doing:
> There's no point to try replying my email (since this email and return address were created inside your inbox).
> There's no point in calling police or any other types of security services either. Furthermore, don't you dare sharing this info with any of your friends.
If I discover that (taking into consideration my skills, it will be really simple, because I control all your systems and continuously monitor them) -
your nasty clip will be shared with public straight away.
> There's no point in looking for me too - it won't result in any success. Transactions with cryptocurrency are completely anonymous and untraceable.
> There's no point in reinstalling your OS on devices or trying to throw them away. That won't solve the issue,
since all clips with you as main character are already uploaded on remote servers.
Things that may be concerning you:
> That funds transfer won't be delivered to me.
Breathe out, I can track down everything right away, so once funds transfer is finished,
I will know for sure, since I interminably track down all activities done by you (my Trojan virus controls all processes remotely, just as TeamViewer).
> That your videos will be distributed, even though you have completed money transfer to my wallet.
Trust me, it is worthless for me to still bother you after money transfer is successful. Moreover, if that was ever part of my plan, I would do make it happen way earlier!
We are going to approach and deal with it in a clear manner!
In conclusion, I'd like to recommend one more thing... after this you need to make certain you don't get involved in similar kind of unpleasant events anymore!
My recommendation - ensure all your passwords are replaced with new ones on a regular basis.
Saturday, July 2, 2022
There is an overdue payment under your name. Please, settle your debts ASAP.
Hi!
Sadly, there are some bad news that you are about to hear.
About few months ago I have gained a full access to all devices used by you for internet browsing.
Shortly after, I started recording all internet activities done by you.
Below is the sequence of events of how that happened:
Earlier I purchased from hackers a unique access to diversified email accounts (at the moment, it is really easy to do using internet).
As you can see, I managed to log in to your email account without breaking a sweat: (tcdunlop.a-countdown@blogger.com).
Within one week afterwards, I installed a Trojan virus in your Operating Systems available on all devices that you utilize for logging in your email.
To be frank, it was somewhat a very easy task (since you were kind enough to open some of links provided in your inbox emails).
I know, you may be thinking now that I'm a genius.
With help of that useful software, I am now able to gain access to all the controllers located in your devices (e.g., video camera, keyboard, microphone and others).
As result, managed to download all your photos, personal data, history of web browsing and other info to my servers without any problems.
Moreover, I now have access to all accounts in your messengers, social networks, emails, contacts list, chat history - you name it.
My Trojan virus continues refreshing its signatures in a non-stop manner (because it is operated by driver),
hence it remains undetected by any antivirus software installed in your PC or device.
So, I guess now you finally understand the reason why I could never be caught until this very letter...
During the process of your personal info compilation, I could not help but notice that you are a huge admirer and regular guest of websites with adult content.
You endure a lot of pleasure while checking out porn websites, watching nasty porn movies and reaching breathtaking orgasms.
Let me be frank with you, it was really hard to resist from recording some of those naughty solo scenes with you in main role and compiling them in special videos
that expose your masturbation sessions, which end with you cumming.
In case if you still have doubts, all I need is to click my mouse and all those nasty videos with you will be shared to friends, colleagues, and relatives of yours.
Moreover, nothing stops me from uploading all that hot content online, so all public can watch it too.
I sincerely hope, you would really not prefer that to happen, keeping in mind all the dirty things you like to watch,
(you certainly know what I mean) it will completely ruin your reputation.
However, don't worry, there is still a way to resolve this:
You need to carry out a $1290 USD transfer to my wallet (equivalent amount in bitcoins depending on exchange rate at the moment of funds transfer),
hence upon receiving the transaction, I will proceed with deleting all the filthy videos with you in main role.
Afterwards, we can forget about this unpleasant accident. Furthermore, I guarantee that all the malicious software will also be erased from your devices and accounts.
Mark my words, I never lie.
That is a great bargain with a low price, I assure you, because I have spent a lot of effort while recording
and tracking down all your activities and dirty deeds during a long period of time.
In case if you have no idea how to buy and transfer bitcoins - feel free to check the related info on the internet.
Here is my bitcoin wallet for your reference: 1LrBGezKti4m2cov7CKuurLnCfQvjp2o1A
From now on, you have only 48 hours and countdown has started once you opened this very email (in other words, 2 days).
The following list contains things you should definitely abstain from doing or even attempting:
> Abstain from trying to reply this email (since the email is generated inside your inbox alongside with return address).
> Abstain from trying to call or report to police or any other security services. In addition, it's a bad idea if you want to share it with your friends,
hoping they would help. If I happen to find out (knowing my awesome skills, it can be done effortlessly,
because I have all your devices and accounts under my control and unceasing observation) - kinky videos of yours will be share to public the same day.
> Abstain from trying to look for me - that would not lead anywhere either. Cryptocurrency transactions are absolutely anonymous and cannot be tracked.
> Abstain from reinstalling your OS on devices or throwing them away. That would not solve the problem as well,
since all your personal videos are already uploaded and stored at remote servers.
Things you may be confused about:
> That your funds transfer won't be delivered to me.
Chill, I can track down any transactions right away, so upon funds transfer I will receive a notification as well,
since I still control your devices (my trojan virus has ability of controlling all processes remotely, just like TeamViewer).
> That I am going to share your dirty videos after receiving money transfer from you.
Here you need to trust me, because there is absolutely no point to still bother you after receiving money.
Moreover, if I really wanted all those videos would be available to public long time ago!
I believe we can still handle this situation on fair terms!
Here is my last advice to you... in future you better ensure you stay away from this kind of situations!
My advice - don't forget to regularly update your passwords to feel completely secure.
Sadly, there are some bad news that you are about to hear.
About few months ago I have gained a full access to all devices used by you for internet browsing.
Shortly after, I started recording all internet activities done by you.
Below is the sequence of events of how that happened:
Earlier I purchased from hackers a unique access to diversified email accounts (at the moment, it is really easy to do using internet).
As you can see, I managed to log in to your email account without breaking a sweat: (tcdunlop.a-countdown@blogger.com).
Within one week afterwards, I installed a Trojan virus in your Operating Systems available on all devices that you utilize for logging in your email.
To be frank, it was somewhat a very easy task (since you were kind enough to open some of links provided in your inbox emails).
I know, you may be thinking now that I'm a genius.
With help of that useful software, I am now able to gain access to all the controllers located in your devices (e.g., video camera, keyboard, microphone and others).
As result, managed to download all your photos, personal data, history of web browsing and other info to my servers without any problems.
Moreover, I now have access to all accounts in your messengers, social networks, emails, contacts list, chat history - you name it.
My Trojan virus continues refreshing its signatures in a non-stop manner (because it is operated by driver),
hence it remains undetected by any antivirus software installed in your PC or device.
So, I guess now you finally understand the reason why I could never be caught until this very letter...
During the process of your personal info compilation, I could not help but notice that you are a huge admirer and regular guest of websites with adult content.
You endure a lot of pleasure while checking out porn websites, watching nasty porn movies and reaching breathtaking orgasms.
Let me be frank with you, it was really hard to resist from recording some of those naughty solo scenes with you in main role and compiling them in special videos
that expose your masturbation sessions, which end with you cumming.
In case if you still have doubts, all I need is to click my mouse and all those nasty videos with you will be shared to friends, colleagues, and relatives of yours.
Moreover, nothing stops me from uploading all that hot content online, so all public can watch it too.
I sincerely hope, you would really not prefer that to happen, keeping in mind all the dirty things you like to watch,
(you certainly know what I mean) it will completely ruin your reputation.
However, don't worry, there is still a way to resolve this:
You need to carry out a $1290 USD transfer to my wallet (equivalent amount in bitcoins depending on exchange rate at the moment of funds transfer),
hence upon receiving the transaction, I will proceed with deleting all the filthy videos with you in main role.
Afterwards, we can forget about this unpleasant accident. Furthermore, I guarantee that all the malicious software will also be erased from your devices and accounts.
Mark my words, I never lie.
That is a great bargain with a low price, I assure you, because I have spent a lot of effort while recording
and tracking down all your activities and dirty deeds during a long period of time.
In case if you have no idea how to buy and transfer bitcoins - feel free to check the related info on the internet.
Here is my bitcoin wallet for your reference: 1LrBGezKti4m2cov7CKuurLnCfQvjp2o1A
From now on, you have only 48 hours and countdown has started once you opened this very email (in other words, 2 days).
The following list contains things you should definitely abstain from doing or even attempting:
> Abstain from trying to reply this email (since the email is generated inside your inbox alongside with return address).
> Abstain from trying to call or report to police or any other security services. In addition, it's a bad idea if you want to share it with your friends,
hoping they would help. If I happen to find out (knowing my awesome skills, it can be done effortlessly,
because I have all your devices and accounts under my control and unceasing observation) - kinky videos of yours will be share to public the same day.
> Abstain from trying to look for me - that would not lead anywhere either. Cryptocurrency transactions are absolutely anonymous and cannot be tracked.
> Abstain from reinstalling your OS on devices or throwing them away. That would not solve the problem as well,
since all your personal videos are already uploaded and stored at remote servers.
Things you may be confused about:
> That your funds transfer won't be delivered to me.
Chill, I can track down any transactions right away, so upon funds transfer I will receive a notification as well,
since I still control your devices (my trojan virus has ability of controlling all processes remotely, just like TeamViewer).
> That I am going to share your dirty videos after receiving money transfer from you.
Here you need to trust me, because there is absolutely no point to still bother you after receiving money.
Moreover, if I really wanted all those videos would be available to public long time ago!
I believe we can still handle this situation on fair terms!
Here is my last advice to you... in future you better ensure you stay away from this kind of situations!
My advice - don't forget to regularly update your passwords to feel completely secure.
Monday, May 16, 2022
You have an outstanding payment. Debt settlement required.
Hello!
Unfortunately, I have some unpleasant news for you.
Roughly several months ago I have managed to get a complete access to all devices that you use to browse internet.
Afterwards, I have proceeded with monitoring all internet activities of yours.
You can check out the sequence of events summarize below:
Previously I have bought from hackers a special access to various email accounts (currently, it is rather a straightforward thing that can be done online).
Clearly, I could effortlessly log in to your email account as well (tcdunlop.a-countdown@blogger.com).
One week after that, I proceeded with installing a Trojan virus in Operating Systems of all your devices, which are used by you to login to your email.
Actually, that was rather a simple thing to do (because you have opened a few links from your inbox emails previously).
Genius is in simplicity. ( ~_^)
Thanks to that software I can get access to all controllers inside your devices (such as your video camera, microphone, keyboard etc.).
I could easily download all your data, photos, web browsing history and other information to my servers.
I can access all your social networks accounts, messengers, emails, including chat history as well as contacts list.
This virus of mine unceasingly keeps refreshing its signatures (since it is controlled by a driver), and as result stays unnoticed by antivirus software.
Hereby, I believe by this time it is already clear for you why I was never detected until I sent this letter...
While compiling all the information related to you, I have also found out that you are a true fan and frequent visitor of adult websites.
You truly enjoy browsing through porn websites, while watching arousing videos and experiencing an unimaginable satisfaction.
To be honest, I could not resist but to record some of your kinky solo sessions and compiled them in several videos, which demonstrate you masturbating and cumming in the end.
If you still don't trust me, all it takes me is several mouse clicks to distribute all those videos with your colleagues, friends and even relatives.
In addition, I can upload them online for entire public to access.
I truly believe, you absolutely don't want such things to occur, bearing in mind the kinky stuff exposed in those videos that you usually watch, (you definitely understand what I am trying to say) it will result in a complete disaster for you.
We can still resolve it in the following manner:
You perform a transfer of $1590 USD to me (a bitcoin equivalent based on the exchange rate during the funds transfer), so after I receive the transfer, I will straight away remove all those lecherous videos without hesitation.
Then we can pretend like it has never happened before. In addition, I assure that all the harmful software will be deactivated and removed from all devices of yours. Don't worry, I am a man of my word.
It is really a good deal with a considerably low the price, bearing in mind that I was monitoring your profile as well as traffic over an extended period.
If you still unaware about the purchase and transfer process of bitcoins - all you can do is find the necessary information online.
My bitcoin wallet is as follows: 1LzA9kzQkGDTYSfbbLE8gK5RAJ5ke32ntC
You are left with 48 hours and the countdown starts right after you open this email (2 days to be specific).
Don't forget to keep in mind and abstain from doing the following:
> Do not attempt to reply my email (this email was generated in your inbox together with the return address).
> Do not attempt to call police as well as other security services. Moreover, don't even think of sharing it with your friends. If I get to know about it (based on my skills, that would be very easy, since that I have all your systems under my control and constant monitoring) - your dirty video will become public without delay.
> Don't attempt searching for me - it is completely useless. Cryptocurrency transactions always remain anonymous.
> Don't attempt reinstalling the OS of your devices or even getting rid of them. It is meaningless too, because all your private videos are already been available on remote servers.
Things you should be concerned about:
> That I will not receive the funds transfer you make.
Relax, I will be able to track it immediately, after you complete the funds transfer, because I unceasingly monitor all activities that you do (trojan virus of mine can control remotely all processes, same as TeamViewer).
> That I will still distribute your videos after you have sent the money to me.
Believe me, it is pointless for me to proceed with troubling you after that. Besides that, if that really was my intention, it would happen long time ago!
It all will be settled on fair conditions and terms!
One last advice from me... Moving forward make sure you don't get involved in such type of incidents again!
My suggestion - make sure you change all your passwords as often as possible.
Unfortunately, I have some unpleasant news for you.
Roughly several months ago I have managed to get a complete access to all devices that you use to browse internet.
Afterwards, I have proceeded with monitoring all internet activities of yours.
You can check out the sequence of events summarize below:
Previously I have bought from hackers a special access to various email accounts (currently, it is rather a straightforward thing that can be done online).
Clearly, I could effortlessly log in to your email account as well (tcdunlop.a-countdown@blogger.com).
One week after that, I proceeded with installing a Trojan virus in Operating Systems of all your devices, which are used by you to login to your email.
Actually, that was rather a simple thing to do (because you have opened a few links from your inbox emails previously).
Genius is in simplicity. ( ~_^)
Thanks to that software I can get access to all controllers inside your devices (such as your video camera, microphone, keyboard etc.).
I could easily download all your data, photos, web browsing history and other information to my servers.
I can access all your social networks accounts, messengers, emails, including chat history as well as contacts list.
This virus of mine unceasingly keeps refreshing its signatures (since it is controlled by a driver), and as result stays unnoticed by antivirus software.
Hereby, I believe by this time it is already clear for you why I was never detected until I sent this letter...
While compiling all the information related to you, I have also found out that you are a true fan and frequent visitor of adult websites.
You truly enjoy browsing through porn websites, while watching arousing videos and experiencing an unimaginable satisfaction.
To be honest, I could not resist but to record some of your kinky solo sessions and compiled them in several videos, which demonstrate you masturbating and cumming in the end.
If you still don't trust me, all it takes me is several mouse clicks to distribute all those videos with your colleagues, friends and even relatives.
In addition, I can upload them online for entire public to access.
I truly believe, you absolutely don't want such things to occur, bearing in mind the kinky stuff exposed in those videos that you usually watch, (you definitely understand what I am trying to say) it will result in a complete disaster for you.
We can still resolve it in the following manner:
You perform a transfer of $1590 USD to me (a bitcoin equivalent based on the exchange rate during the funds transfer), so after I receive the transfer, I will straight away remove all those lecherous videos without hesitation.
Then we can pretend like it has never happened before. In addition, I assure that all the harmful software will be deactivated and removed from all devices of yours. Don't worry, I am a man of my word.
It is really a good deal with a considerably low the price, bearing in mind that I was monitoring your profile as well as traffic over an extended period.
If you still unaware about the purchase and transfer process of bitcoins - all you can do is find the necessary information online.
My bitcoin wallet is as follows: 1LzA9kzQkGDTYSfbbLE8gK5RAJ5ke32ntC
You are left with 48 hours and the countdown starts right after you open this email (2 days to be specific).
Don't forget to keep in mind and abstain from doing the following:
> Do not attempt to reply my email (this email was generated in your inbox together with the return address).
> Do not attempt to call police as well as other security services. Moreover, don't even think of sharing it with your friends. If I get to know about it (based on my skills, that would be very easy, since that I have all your systems under my control and constant monitoring) - your dirty video will become public without delay.
> Don't attempt searching for me - it is completely useless. Cryptocurrency transactions always remain anonymous.
> Don't attempt reinstalling the OS of your devices or even getting rid of them. It is meaningless too, because all your private videos are already been available on remote servers.
Things you should be concerned about:
> That I will not receive the funds transfer you make.
Relax, I will be able to track it immediately, after you complete the funds transfer, because I unceasingly monitor all activities that you do (trojan virus of mine can control remotely all processes, same as TeamViewer).
> That I will still distribute your videos after you have sent the money to me.
Believe me, it is pointless for me to proceed with troubling you after that. Besides that, if that really was my intention, it would happen long time ago!
It all will be settled on fair conditions and terms!
One last advice from me... Moving forward make sure you don't get involved in such type of incidents again!
My suggestion - make sure you change all your passwords as often as possible.
Sunday, May 15, 2022
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Hello!
Unfortunately, I have some unpleasant news for you.
Roughly several months ago I have managed to get a complete access to all devices that you use to browse internet.
Afterwards, I have proceeded with monitoring all internet activities of yours.
You can check out the sequence of events summarize below:
Previously I have bought from hackers a special access to various email accounts (currently, it is rather a straightforward thing that can be done online).
Clearly, I could effortlessly log in to your email account as well (tcdunlop.a-countdown@blogger.com).
One week after that, I proceeded with installing a Trojan virus in Operating Systems of all your devices, which are used by you to login to your email.
Actually, that was rather a simple thing to do (because you have opened a few links from your inbox emails previously).
Genius is in simplicity. ( ~_^)
Thanks to that software I can get access to all controllers inside your devices (such as your video camera, microphone, keyboard etc.).
I could easily download all your data, photos, web browsing history and other information to my servers.
I can access all your social networks accounts, messengers, emails, including chat history as well as contacts list.
This virus of mine unceasingly keeps refreshing its signatures (since it is controlled by a driver), and as result stays unnoticed by antivirus software.
Hereby, I believe by this time it is already clear for you why I was never detected until I sent this letter...
While compiling all the information related to you, I have also found out that you are a true fan and frequent visitor of adult websites.
You truly enjoy browsing through porn websites, while watching arousing videos and experiencing an unimaginable satisfaction.
To be honest, I could not resist but to record some of your kinky solo sessions and compiled them in several videos, which demonstrate you masturbating and cumming in the end.
If you still don't trust me, all it takes me is several mouse clicks to distribute all those videos with your colleagues, friends and even relatives.
In addition, I can upload them online for entire public to access.
I truly believe, you absolutely don't want such things to occur, bearing in mind the kinky stuff exposed in those videos that you usually watch, (you definitely understand what I am trying to say) it will result in a complete disaster for you.
We can still resolve it in the following manner:
You perform a transfer of $1590 USD to me (a bitcoin equivalent based on the exchange rate during the funds transfer), so after I receive the transfer, I will straight away remove all those lecherous videos without hesitation.
Then we can pretend like it has never happened before. In addition, I assure that all the harmful software will be deactivated and removed from all devices of yours. Don't worry, I am a man of my word.
It is really a good deal with a considerably low the price, bearing in mind that I was monitoring your profile as well as traffic over an extended period.
If you still unaware about the purchase and transfer process of bitcoins - all you can do is find the necessary information online.
My bitcoin wallet is as follows: 1LzA9kzQkGDTYSfbbLE8gK5RAJ5ke32ntC
You are left with 48 hours and the countdown starts right after you open this email (2 days to be specific).
Don't forget to keep in mind and abstain from doing the following:
> Do not attempt to reply my email (this email was generated in your inbox together with the return address).
> Do not attempt to call police as well as other security services. Moreover, don't even think of sharing it with your friends. If I get to know about it (based on my skills, that would be very easy, since that I have all your systems under my control and constant monitoring) - your dirty video will become public without delay.
> Don't attempt searching for me - it is completely useless. Cryptocurrency transactions always remain anonymous.
> Don't attempt reinstalling the OS of your devices or even getting rid of them. It is meaningless too, because all your private videos are already been available on remote servers.
Things you should be concerned about:
> That I will not receive the funds transfer you make.
Relax, I will be able to track it immediately, after you complete the funds transfer, because I unceasingly monitor all activities that you do (trojan virus of mine can control remotely all processes, same as TeamViewer).
> That I will still distribute your videos after you have sent the money to me.
Believe me, it is pointless for me to proceed with troubling you after that. Besides that, if that really was my intention, it would happen long time ago!
It all will be settled on fair conditions and terms!
One last advice from me... Moving forward make sure you don't get involved in such type of incidents again!
My suggestion - make sure you change all your passwords as often as possible.
Unfortunately, I have some unpleasant news for you.
Roughly several months ago I have managed to get a complete access to all devices that you use to browse internet.
Afterwards, I have proceeded with monitoring all internet activities of yours.
You can check out the sequence of events summarize below:
Previously I have bought from hackers a special access to various email accounts (currently, it is rather a straightforward thing that can be done online).
Clearly, I could effortlessly log in to your email account as well (tcdunlop.a-countdown@blogger.com).
One week after that, I proceeded with installing a Trojan virus in Operating Systems of all your devices, which are used by you to login to your email.
Actually, that was rather a simple thing to do (because you have opened a few links from your inbox emails previously).
Genius is in simplicity. ( ~_^)
Thanks to that software I can get access to all controllers inside your devices (such as your video camera, microphone, keyboard etc.).
I could easily download all your data, photos, web browsing history and other information to my servers.
I can access all your social networks accounts, messengers, emails, including chat history as well as contacts list.
This virus of mine unceasingly keeps refreshing its signatures (since it is controlled by a driver), and as result stays unnoticed by antivirus software.
Hereby, I believe by this time it is already clear for you why I was never detected until I sent this letter...
While compiling all the information related to you, I have also found out that you are a true fan and frequent visitor of adult websites.
You truly enjoy browsing through porn websites, while watching arousing videos and experiencing an unimaginable satisfaction.
To be honest, I could not resist but to record some of your kinky solo sessions and compiled them in several videos, which demonstrate you masturbating and cumming in the end.
If you still don't trust me, all it takes me is several mouse clicks to distribute all those videos with your colleagues, friends and even relatives.
In addition, I can upload them online for entire public to access.
I truly believe, you absolutely don't want such things to occur, bearing in mind the kinky stuff exposed in those videos that you usually watch, (you definitely understand what I am trying to say) it will result in a complete disaster for you.
We can still resolve it in the following manner:
You perform a transfer of $1590 USD to me (a bitcoin equivalent based on the exchange rate during the funds transfer), so after I receive the transfer, I will straight away remove all those lecherous videos without hesitation.
Then we can pretend like it has never happened before. In addition, I assure that all the harmful software will be deactivated and removed from all devices of yours. Don't worry, I am a man of my word.
It is really a good deal with a considerably low the price, bearing in mind that I was monitoring your profile as well as traffic over an extended period.
If you still unaware about the purchase and transfer process of bitcoins - all you can do is find the necessary information online.
My bitcoin wallet is as follows: 1LzA9kzQkGDTYSfbbLE8gK5RAJ5ke32ntC
You are left with 48 hours and the countdown starts right after you open this email (2 days to be specific).
Don't forget to keep in mind and abstain from doing the following:
> Do not attempt to reply my email (this email was generated in your inbox together with the return address).
> Do not attempt to call police as well as other security services. Moreover, don't even think of sharing it with your friends. If I get to know about it (based on my skills, that would be very easy, since that I have all your systems under my control and constant monitoring) - your dirty video will become public without delay.
> Don't attempt searching for me - it is completely useless. Cryptocurrency transactions always remain anonymous.
> Don't attempt reinstalling the OS of your devices or even getting rid of them. It is meaningless too, because all your private videos are already been available on remote servers.
Things you should be concerned about:
> That I will not receive the funds transfer you make.
Relax, I will be able to track it immediately, after you complete the funds transfer, because I unceasingly monitor all activities that you do (trojan virus of mine can control remotely all processes, same as TeamViewer).
> That I will still distribute your videos after you have sent the money to me.
Believe me, it is pointless for me to proceed with troubling you after that. Besides that, if that really was my intention, it would happen long time ago!
It all will be settled on fair conditions and terms!
One last advice from me... Moving forward make sure you don't get involved in such type of incidents again!
My suggestion - make sure you change all your passwords as often as possible.
Monday, December 27, 2021
Don’t Look Up: Who Are the Characters Based On
We examine the real life parallels for the depressingly believable ensemble of nitwits in Adam McKay's Don't Look Up.
This was supposed to be a comedy, right? That's what the marketing and 1960s-inspired opening title cards suggest for Adam McKay's Don't Look Up, and yet one might think the happiest moment in the whole thing is when Leonardo DiCaprio's Dr. Randall Mindy and Jennifer Lawrence's PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky sit down to dinner with family, friends, and even a new fiancé, before the comet strikes. At least they're getting a break from trying to force reality into those people's thick skulls.
That's the bleak vibe and pitch black humor at work throughout Don't Look Up, a passionate, strident, and intentionally abrasive dramedy which takes a page out of Stanley Kubrick and laughs at the end of the world. The film is clearly meant to be a parable about humanity's inability to face the hard truths of the existential threat posed by climate change in the last 40 years, but it also arrives deep into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic (and new emergence of the Omicron variant). While McKay wrote and began preparing this project before COVID, it all lands a little more horrifyingly now… not least of all because the film's most caricatured personalities all have the haze of truth around them.
Indeed, the movie is technically a fictional story, just as it's supposedly a comedy, but the fact that there are echoes of the real world in each larger than life cartoon character allows it to play differently. So here are all the winks, allusions, and implications we caught on our first viewing.
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Meryl Streep's President Orlean Influences
When the Don't Look Up trailer first dropped, you would be forgiven for thinking that there are hints of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the woman who almost was the President of the United States, in Meryl Streep's blonde female POTUS with a penchant for pant suits. And that's because, truthfully, there are multiple nods and references to all of our most recent national leaders in Streep and McKay's unholy creation. But the figure she's clearly most emulating is the orange hued man who was president when cameras first rolled on the movie: Donald Trump.
Like Trump, Orlean is a former reality television star who preposterously rose to national politics and is vocally outspoken in her anti-intellectualism and anti-science ignorance. Just last year, as Don't Look Up was preparing to film during the pandemic, Trump told Wade Crowfoot, California's secretary for natural resources, that he thought the earth was going to "start getting cooler – you just watch." When Crowfoot responded that he wished the science agreed with the president, Trump added, "Well, I don't think the science knows, actually."
The former president made these incredulous assertions as California was ravaged by historic wildfires—and in the same year the former president also told Americans that COVID-19 was "a hoax" exaggerated by the DNC and that it would go away in spring 2020 "like a miracle." Orlean's similar disinterest and inability to engage in reality is a maddening recreation of this, as is her abuse of cronyism and nepotism, including by making her son White House chief of staff.
But she is not only Trump. Take her bizarre crisis at the start of the film where she's nominated an abusive, violent, and racist southwestern sheriff with no judicial experience to be a justice on the Supreme Court. The small character of the sheriff (who we'll come back to) is likely inspired by Joe Arpaio, a former sheriff in Arizona whom Trump pardoned in 2017 after the law officer was found guilty of criminal contempt. While Trump did not nominate Arpaio to the SCOTUS, President George W. Bush—whose administration is a favorite subject matter for McKay—did attempt to put Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court in 2005.
Up to that point, Miers had been a lifelong political animal in the Republican Party who had never served as a judge on any court. But she had worked in the Bush White House as first a staff secretary and then deputy chief of staff for policy. Her close loyalty to Bush caused the president to nominate her over anyone who actually served in the judiciary. The choice received fierce backlash from even the Republican Party. After meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005, then-Sen. Tom Coburn privately said she "flunked" in demonstrating the intellectual rigor needed to be a SCOTUS justice.
Miers ultimately withdrew her nomination. It was one political humiliation for Bush who suffered many after his reelection, including how poorly his "Mission: Accomplished" photograph atop of an aircraft carrier had aged as the Iraq War escalated. Don't Look Up appears to mimic this with Orlean deciding to take the comet "seriously" for political expediency and having a preemptive victory speech given from atop an aircraft carrier in the Potomac.
Streep's President Orlean similarly merges elements of other political figures across the spectrum, from the fact she's seen in one photograph hugging former President Bill Clinton, and somewhat copying his folksy mannerism, to her oft-discussed smoking habit, which she initially tried to hide on the political campaign trail. This, in turn, mimics former President Barack Obama's worst kept dirty little secret. Also like Obama, she has a habit of being photographed with celebrities. Obama also had a tendency to trust the experts who came from Ivy League schools as most credible, much to many on the left's disdain when it came to appointing conventional Harvard thinkers like Larry Summers as Director of the White House National Economic Council during the Great Recession.
Even her earliest "scandal" as a woman who, according to her son, became famous for being a Playboy centerfold back in the day feels like a play on former Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, the Republican politician who shocked the political elite when he captured Ted Kennedy's Senate seat following Kennedy's death in 2009—and in spite of the fact that his nude centerfold spread in Cosmopolitan magazine was dredged up during the campaign.
Jonah Hill's Jason Orlean Inspirations
On balance, Jonah Hill's character in Don't Look Up is nothing short of a Frankenstein's Monster styled stitching of the reputations and rumors around Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr.
Introduced first as President Orlean's entirely disinterested and arrogant White House chief of staff, we eventually learn Jason is her actual son. While President Trump never quite had the audacity to appoint one of his children (or their spouses) as his chief of staff, according to various reports about the Trump White House, he might as well have. Particularly during the first year-plus of the Trump presidency, reports consistently described Trump's son-in-law, Kushner, and his daughter Ivanka as leaders of a competing White House apparatus that worked in opposition to Trump's first failed chief of staff, Reince Priebus.
While their roles in managing the presidency allegedly faded some in later years, the son-in-law remained President Trump's go-to fixer and idea man. During our own real life Don't Look Up experience in 2020, Trump appointed Kushner to oversee much of the federal response to COVID-19 in the spring, despite his son-in-law's absolute lack of experience in handling viruses, pandemics, or national emergencies.
More damning still, reports came out alleging Kushner's team spent months coddling the president's political desire to downplay the virus by coming to the conclusion that "because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically." One anonymous expert was quoted as saying, "The political folks believed that because it was relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy."
According to Stephanie Grisham, a former Trump White House press secretary, Kushner and Ivanka "thought they were a shadow president and first lady."
Don't Look Up also leans into the salacious rumors and stories about the Trump kids. This ranges from the much remarked upon obsession the former president had with commenting on his daughter's attractiveness (it's reversed in the movie) to the social media speculation about Donald Trump Jr.'s supposed use of recreational drugs (which became so intense after his 2020 RNC speech that he had to publicly deny them).
Jason Orlean certainly mimics Don Jr.'s role as being his presidential parent's social media attack dog, right down to still tweeting about his inherent awesomeness after he's become the last man left on Earth.
Mark Rylance's Peter Isherwell Influences
Another unsubtle blending of various public figures, although now from the world of tech and energy, is Mark Rylance's deluded CEO. Rylance has played tech CEOs with god complexes before, quite memorably so during Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One (2018). But whereas that film leaned into the mythical way some of Silicon Valley's leading capitalists might view themselves (and how their fans did back in the late 2000s, when the source novel was written), McKay asks Rylance to repeat his soft-spoken and gentle obliviousness to a far more menacing effect.
In this film, Rylance is the CEO of a company that looks a lot like Apple given the almost religious awe consumers and even children hold for him and the new smartphones he releases every year. In this way, he obviously looks a lot like Steve Jobs, whose cult of personality never seemed greater than when he introduced the world to the iPhone in 2007.
However, beyond the fact that Jobs is gone and was never a major political mover and shaker, Isherwell also combines elements from other recent tech gurus, including most obviously Elon Musk, the CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc., and founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX. Like Isherwell, Musk is an arguably chilly presence who fancies himself as something akin to mankind's savior with his determination to lead SpaceX to colonize Mars, complete with its own direct democracy government, and who believes our future is "among the stars."
The way that he uses his cellphones to track and datamine folks to the point where he thinks his algorithms can predict the very cause of your death is also the open dirty secret of so many tech companies in the 21st century, but most clearly Facebook, which is now part of the rebranded "Meta" company run by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Like Isherwell, the near worshipful affection tech watchers had for Zuckerberg, Facebook, and social media at large in the late 2000s has given way to cynicism and despair after those tools have proved to be a breeding ground for misinformation, manipulation, and political destabilization. In fact, just this year a former Facebook employee testified before the U.S. Senate that the company allegedly put profits above public safety when it came to vetting (and ignoring) algorithms that ultimately may promote radicalization.
Cate Blanchett's Brie Evantee and the News Media
Cate Blanchett appears nigh unrecognizable beneath her airbrushed cheshire grin as Brie Evantee. The character, alongside Tyler Perry's Jack Bremmer, is part of a pair of stand-ins for almost any cheerful-to-a-fault morning show personality. However, the specific look of Brie, and Blanchett's discreet underplaying of extreme intelligence beneath the mind numbing banter, suggests she is modeled after Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Like Evantee, Brzezinski co-hosts the morning show which is ostensibly a little savvier and certainly more popular with Washington politicos and beltway insiders. Also like the fictional character, Brzezinski is a lot sharper than the usual sing-songy morning blather might indicate, with Brzezinski being a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics and a former on-the-ground reporter, including when she was CBS News' principal "Ground Zero" correspondent during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
This specific comparison was raised to McKay during a profile interview in Vanity Fair. He denied the similarities though, suggesting they were purely coincidental. He did, however, more openly discuss comparisons to larger institutions instead of individual persons. McKay thus admitted his film's New York Herald is a satire of the high-minded airs of The New York Times.
"I do think tremendous shame on The New York Times for hiring that climate change denier," McKay is quoted as saying in reference to Bret Stephens. He went on to say the paper of record is too beholden to its own vaunted sobriety and doesn't treat climate change with the urgency it deserves. He added, "[But if you're a top editor at the paper] are you really going to go into a meeting and go like, 'Hey guys, I think we should put a headline that says, We're fucked.'"
And Michael Chikilis' cameo as a Fox News-like sycophant for the right is clearly modeled after Sean Hannity, as indicated by the logo behind him on his last night on Earth… which he spends by ignoring the hard cold reality of a comet about to crash on his head. With that said, he could just as easily be any Fox News personality who denies climate change or the magnitude of the Jan. 6 insurrection mob which descended on Capitol Hill.
Erik Parillo's Sheriff Conlon Inspirations
Sheriff Conlon, President Orlean's Supreme Court pick and the man she also appears to have a romantic fling with, is likely based on Joe Arpaio, the controversial and disgraced former Sheriff of Maricopa County from 1993 to 2017. During his tenure, the sheriff and his office received numerous accusations of politically motivated investigations and arrests (including of journalists), abuse of power, misuse of government funds, and (in what made him a Fox News hero) the targeting if Latinx communities in search of undocumented immigrants. This included "immigration patrols" which canvassed largely Latinx communities and which would stop Latinx drivers and ask for identification.
A judge specifically ordered the racial profiling in the last abuse to end, which Arpaio ignored, causing the judge to hold Arpaio in criminal contempt of court.
Trump pardoned Arpaio less than a month later.
I also got faint hints of disgraced former congressman and Democrat, Anthony Weiner, with how his salacious texts were leaked online, not unlike Weiner's various sexting scandals repeatedly finding their way into the press, destabilizing the political campaign of Hillary Clinton in 2016, which his then-wife worked for.
Ariana Grande's Riley Bina Inspirations
Oh, come on, do you really need us to explain this? Ariana Grande is a good sport for playing a caricature of herself in Don't Look Up. The Grande pop star in the movie is named Riley, and she lives in a world where her love life is part of her public persona due to invasive media interest–which she plays the game over all too well. Thus scenes of her on a morning show where the press is more interested in talking about her bad break-up from another pop star instead of her music—never mind the planet-killing comet coming from above.
Grande has of course had notable break ups with popular musicians and an SNL star. If you want to read more about that, use Google for that sort of thing.
This was supposed to be a comedy, right? That's what the marketing and 1960s-inspired opening title cards suggest for Adam McKay's Don't Look Up, and yet one might think the happiest moment in the whole thing is when Leonardo DiCaprio's Dr. Randall Mindy and Jennifer Lawrence's PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky sit down to dinner with family, friends, and even a new fiancé, before the comet strikes. At least they're getting a break from trying to force reality into those people's thick skulls.
That's the bleak vibe and pitch black humor at work throughout Don't Look Up, a passionate, strident, and intentionally abrasive dramedy which takes a page out of Stanley Kubrick and laughs at the end of the world. The film is clearly meant to be a parable about humanity's inability to face the hard truths of the existential threat posed by climate change in the last 40 years, but it also arrives deep into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic (and new emergence of the Omicron variant). While McKay wrote and began preparing this project before COVID, it all lands a little more horrifyingly now… not least of all because the film's most caricatured personalities all have the haze of truth around them.
Indeed, the movie is technically a fictional story, just as it's supposedly a comedy, but the fact that there are echoes of the real world in each larger than life cartoon character allows it to play differently. So here are all the winks, allusions, and implications we caught on our first viewing.
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Meryl Streep's President Orlean Influences
When the Don't Look Up trailer first dropped, you would be forgiven for thinking that there are hints of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the woman who almost was the President of the United States, in Meryl Streep's blonde female POTUS with a penchant for pant suits. And that's because, truthfully, there are multiple nods and references to all of our most recent national leaders in Streep and McKay's unholy creation. But the figure she's clearly most emulating is the orange hued man who was president when cameras first rolled on the movie: Donald Trump.
Like Trump, Orlean is a former reality television star who preposterously rose to national politics and is vocally outspoken in her anti-intellectualism and anti-science ignorance. Just last year, as Don't Look Up was preparing to film during the pandemic, Trump told Wade Crowfoot, California's secretary for natural resources, that he thought the earth was going to "start getting cooler – you just watch." When Crowfoot responded that he wished the science agreed with the president, Trump added, "Well, I don't think the science knows, actually."
The former president made these incredulous assertions as California was ravaged by historic wildfires—and in the same year the former president also told Americans that COVID-19 was "a hoax" exaggerated by the DNC and that it would go away in spring 2020 "like a miracle." Orlean's similar disinterest and inability to engage in reality is a maddening recreation of this, as is her abuse of cronyism and nepotism, including by making her son White House chief of staff.
But she is not only Trump. Take her bizarre crisis at the start of the film where she's nominated an abusive, violent, and racist southwestern sheriff with no judicial experience to be a justice on the Supreme Court. The small character of the sheriff (who we'll come back to) is likely inspired by Joe Arpaio, a former sheriff in Arizona whom Trump pardoned in 2017 after the law officer was found guilty of criminal contempt. While Trump did not nominate Arpaio to the SCOTUS, President George W. Bush—whose administration is a favorite subject matter for McKay—did attempt to put Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court in 2005.
Up to that point, Miers had been a lifelong political animal in the Republican Party who had never served as a judge on any court. But she had worked in the Bush White House as first a staff secretary and then deputy chief of staff for policy. Her close loyalty to Bush caused the president to nominate her over anyone who actually served in the judiciary. The choice received fierce backlash from even the Republican Party. After meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005, then-Sen. Tom Coburn privately said she "flunked" in demonstrating the intellectual rigor needed to be a SCOTUS justice.
Miers ultimately withdrew her nomination. It was one political humiliation for Bush who suffered many after his reelection, including how poorly his "Mission: Accomplished" photograph atop of an aircraft carrier had aged as the Iraq War escalated. Don't Look Up appears to mimic this with Orlean deciding to take the comet "seriously" for political expediency and having a preemptive victory speech given from atop an aircraft carrier in the Potomac.
Streep's President Orlean similarly merges elements of other political figures across the spectrum, from the fact she's seen in one photograph hugging former President Bill Clinton, and somewhat copying his folksy mannerism, to her oft-discussed smoking habit, which she initially tried to hide on the political campaign trail. This, in turn, mimics former President Barack Obama's worst kept dirty little secret. Also like Obama, she has a habit of being photographed with celebrities. Obama also had a tendency to trust the experts who came from Ivy League schools as most credible, much to many on the left's disdain when it came to appointing conventional Harvard thinkers like Larry Summers as Director of the White House National Economic Council during the Great Recession.
Even her earliest "scandal" as a woman who, according to her son, became famous for being a Playboy centerfold back in the day feels like a play on former Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, the Republican politician who shocked the political elite when he captured Ted Kennedy's Senate seat following Kennedy's death in 2009—and in spite of the fact that his nude centerfold spread in Cosmopolitan magazine was dredged up during the campaign.
Jonah Hill's Jason Orlean Inspirations
On balance, Jonah Hill's character in Don't Look Up is nothing short of a Frankenstein's Monster styled stitching of the reputations and rumors around Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr.
Introduced first as President Orlean's entirely disinterested and arrogant White House chief of staff, we eventually learn Jason is her actual son. While President Trump never quite had the audacity to appoint one of his children (or their spouses) as his chief of staff, according to various reports about the Trump White House, he might as well have. Particularly during the first year-plus of the Trump presidency, reports consistently described Trump's son-in-law, Kushner, and his daughter Ivanka as leaders of a competing White House apparatus that worked in opposition to Trump's first failed chief of staff, Reince Priebus.
While their roles in managing the presidency allegedly faded some in later years, the son-in-law remained President Trump's go-to fixer and idea man. During our own real life Don't Look Up experience in 2020, Trump appointed Kushner to oversee much of the federal response to COVID-19 in the spring, despite his son-in-law's absolute lack of experience in handling viruses, pandemics, or national emergencies.
More damning still, reports came out alleging Kushner's team spent months coddling the president's political desire to downplay the virus by coming to the conclusion that "because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically." One anonymous expert was quoted as saying, "The political folks believed that because it was relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy."
According to Stephanie Grisham, a former Trump White House press secretary, Kushner and Ivanka "thought they were a shadow president and first lady."
Don't Look Up also leans into the salacious rumors and stories about the Trump kids. This ranges from the much remarked upon obsession the former president had with commenting on his daughter's attractiveness (it's reversed in the movie) to the social media speculation about Donald Trump Jr.'s supposed use of recreational drugs (which became so intense after his 2020 RNC speech that he had to publicly deny them).
Jason Orlean certainly mimics Don Jr.'s role as being his presidential parent's social media attack dog, right down to still tweeting about his inherent awesomeness after he's become the last man left on Earth.
Mark Rylance's Peter Isherwell Influences
Another unsubtle blending of various public figures, although now from the world of tech and energy, is Mark Rylance's deluded CEO. Rylance has played tech CEOs with god complexes before, quite memorably so during Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One (2018). But whereas that film leaned into the mythical way some of Silicon Valley's leading capitalists might view themselves (and how their fans did back in the late 2000s, when the source novel was written), McKay asks Rylance to repeat his soft-spoken and gentle obliviousness to a far more menacing effect.
In this film, Rylance is the CEO of a company that looks a lot like Apple given the almost religious awe consumers and even children hold for him and the new smartphones he releases every year. In this way, he obviously looks a lot like Steve Jobs, whose cult of personality never seemed greater than when he introduced the world to the iPhone in 2007.
However, beyond the fact that Jobs is gone and was never a major political mover and shaker, Isherwell also combines elements from other recent tech gurus, including most obviously Elon Musk, the CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc., and founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX. Like Isherwell, Musk is an arguably chilly presence who fancies himself as something akin to mankind's savior with his determination to lead SpaceX to colonize Mars, complete with its own direct democracy government, and who believes our future is "among the stars."
The way that he uses his cellphones to track and datamine folks to the point where he thinks his algorithms can predict the very cause of your death is also the open dirty secret of so many tech companies in the 21st century, but most clearly Facebook, which is now part of the rebranded "Meta" company run by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Like Isherwell, the near worshipful affection tech watchers had for Zuckerberg, Facebook, and social media at large in the late 2000s has given way to cynicism and despair after those tools have proved to be a breeding ground for misinformation, manipulation, and political destabilization. In fact, just this year a former Facebook employee testified before the U.S. Senate that the company allegedly put profits above public safety when it came to vetting (and ignoring) algorithms that ultimately may promote radicalization.
Cate Blanchett's Brie Evantee and the News Media
Cate Blanchett appears nigh unrecognizable beneath her airbrushed cheshire grin as Brie Evantee. The character, alongside Tyler Perry's Jack Bremmer, is part of a pair of stand-ins for almost any cheerful-to-a-fault morning show personality. However, the specific look of Brie, and Blanchett's discreet underplaying of extreme intelligence beneath the mind numbing banter, suggests she is modeled after Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Like Evantee, Brzezinski co-hosts the morning show which is ostensibly a little savvier and certainly more popular with Washington politicos and beltway insiders. Also like the fictional character, Brzezinski is a lot sharper than the usual sing-songy morning blather might indicate, with Brzezinski being a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics and a former on-the-ground reporter, including when she was CBS News' principal "Ground Zero" correspondent during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
This specific comparison was raised to McKay during a profile interview in Vanity Fair. He denied the similarities though, suggesting they were purely coincidental. He did, however, more openly discuss comparisons to larger institutions instead of individual persons. McKay thus admitted his film's New York Herald is a satire of the high-minded airs of The New York Times.
"I do think tremendous shame on The New York Times for hiring that climate change denier," McKay is quoted as saying in reference to Bret Stephens. He went on to say the paper of record is too beholden to its own vaunted sobriety and doesn't treat climate change with the urgency it deserves. He added, "[But if you're a top editor at the paper] are you really going to go into a meeting and go like, 'Hey guys, I think we should put a headline that says, We're fucked.'"
And Michael Chikilis' cameo as a Fox News-like sycophant for the right is clearly modeled after Sean Hannity, as indicated by the logo behind him on his last night on Earth… which he spends by ignoring the hard cold reality of a comet about to crash on his head. With that said, he could just as easily be any Fox News personality who denies climate change or the magnitude of the Jan. 6 insurrection mob which descended on Capitol Hill.
Erik Parillo's Sheriff Conlon Inspirations
Sheriff Conlon, President Orlean's Supreme Court pick and the man she also appears to have a romantic fling with, is likely based on Joe Arpaio, the controversial and disgraced former Sheriff of Maricopa County from 1993 to 2017. During his tenure, the sheriff and his office received numerous accusations of politically motivated investigations and arrests (including of journalists), abuse of power, misuse of government funds, and (in what made him a Fox News hero) the targeting if Latinx communities in search of undocumented immigrants. This included "immigration patrols" which canvassed largely Latinx communities and which would stop Latinx drivers and ask for identification.
A judge specifically ordered the racial profiling in the last abuse to end, which Arpaio ignored, causing the judge to hold Arpaio in criminal contempt of court.
Trump pardoned Arpaio less than a month later.
I also got faint hints of disgraced former congressman and Democrat, Anthony Weiner, with how his salacious texts were leaked online, not unlike Weiner's various sexting scandals repeatedly finding their way into the press, destabilizing the political campaign of Hillary Clinton in 2016, which his then-wife worked for.
Ariana Grande's Riley Bina Inspirations
Oh, come on, do you really need us to explain this? Ariana Grande is a good sport for playing a caricature of herself in Don't Look Up. The Grande pop star in the movie is named Riley, and she lives in a world where her love life is part of her public persona due to invasive media interest–which she plays the game over all too well. Thus scenes of her on a morning show where the press is more interested in talking about her bad break-up from another pop star instead of her music—never mind the planet-killing comet coming from above.
Grande has of course had notable break ups with popular musicians and an SNL star. If you want to read more about that, use Google for that sort of thing.
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