uair01
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Interesting This is a wicked extortion attempt. It got my attention because of this subject line:
[my real name] - [one of my real passwords]
Then it continues like this:
Thatcher Petkova <[email protected]>
I do know [one of my real passwords] one of your pass words. Lets get right to the purpose. There is no one who has paid me to check you. You don't know me and you're probably wondering why you are getting this e mail?
in fact, i setup a software on the 18+ streaming (porn) website and you know what, you visited this site to have fun (you know what i mean). When you were watching videos, your internet browser started operating as a RDP having a key logger which provided me accessibility to your display screen and also webcam. Right after that, my software collected your complete contacts from your Messenger, Facebook, as well as e-mailaccount. and then i created a double-screen video. 1st part displays the video you were viewing (you have a good taste rofl), and next part displays the recording of your web cam, yea its u.
You actually have two different solutions. We are going to take a look at these types of solutions in particulars:
First choice is to just ignore this email message. in this situation, i am going to send your actual video to every single one of your contacts and then imagine about the disgrace you will get. and definitely in case you are in an intimate relationship, just how it can affect?
in the second place option will be to pay me $7000. We will call it a donation. in this situation, i most certainly will instantaneously eliminate your video footage. You could go on with your daily routine like this never happened and you would never hear back again from me.
You'll make the payment via Bitcoin (if you don't know this, search for 'how to buy bitcoin' in Google).
BTC address to send to: 1CFkYtZhREM1wkfcwycZdcyq5PUGgpg8GG [case-SeNSiTiVe so copy & paste it]
if you are wondering about going to the law, good, this email cannot be traced back to me. I have covered my moves. i am not trying to charge a fee very much, i would like to be paid for. i have a unique pixel within this mail, and at this moment i know that you have read this email message. You have one day to pay. if i do not receive the BitCoins, i will definately send out your video to all of your contacts including friends and family, coworkers, and so on. Nonetheless, if i do get paid, i will erase the video immediately. it's a non-negotiable offer therefore please don't waste my personal time and yours by replying to this email message. if you want evidence, reply with Yea! then i will send out your video to your 14 friends.
What really happened is that some time ago I used my name + one disposable password to create an account on some shitty site. Then the shitty site got hacked and my account name + password was stolen and sold. Now someone is using that database for extortion. I'm one of the random "victims". There is also no pixel in the mail (I was curious).
Of course I don't take this seriously and of course I won't pay anything. But I'm intrigued if the "criminal" gets any money from any of his victims. There are no transactions at this bitcoin address: https://www.blockchain.com/nl/btc/address/1CFkYtZhREM1wkfcwycZdcyq5PUGgpg8GG
And it's an old scam, other's have had similar attempts:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07...-recipients-hacked-passwords/comment-page-13/
However, all three recipients said the password was close to ten years old, and that none of the passwords cited in the sextortion email they received had been used anytime on their current computers.
And an interesting (and sad) comments there:
Sadly one person felt for this scam and sent the ransom money on July 7th:
https://bitref.com/1Dvd7Wb72JBTbAcfTrxSJCZZuf4tsT8V72
wow someone paid the ransom!
https://bitref.com/1HH79G9DqFscMpfZs1uPzNNw3bQwdcNvZN
And wow:
Just from the BTC addresses posted by readers here, we can see that those addresses received almost $80,000 in Bitcoin over the last ten days. That’s pretty incredible.
[my real name] - [one of my real passwords]
Then it continues like this:
Thatcher Petkova <[email protected]>
I do know [one of my real passwords] one of your pass words. Lets get right to the purpose. There is no one who has paid me to check you. You don't know me and you're probably wondering why you are getting this e mail?
in fact, i setup a software on the 18+ streaming (porn) website and you know what, you visited this site to have fun (you know what i mean). When you were watching videos, your internet browser started operating as a RDP having a key logger which provided me accessibility to your display screen and also webcam. Right after that, my software collected your complete contacts from your Messenger, Facebook, as well as e-mailaccount. and then i created a double-screen video. 1st part displays the video you were viewing (you have a good taste rofl), and next part displays the recording of your web cam, yea its u.
You actually have two different solutions. We are going to take a look at these types of solutions in particulars:
First choice is to just ignore this email message. in this situation, i am going to send your actual video to every single one of your contacts and then imagine about the disgrace you will get. and definitely in case you are in an intimate relationship, just how it can affect?
in the second place option will be to pay me $7000. We will call it a donation. in this situation, i most certainly will instantaneously eliminate your video footage. You could go on with your daily routine like this never happened and you would never hear back again from me.
You'll make the payment via Bitcoin (if you don't know this, search for 'how to buy bitcoin' in Google).
BTC address to send to: 1CFkYtZhREM1wkfcwycZdcyq5PUGgpg8GG [case-SeNSiTiVe so copy & paste it]
if you are wondering about going to the law, good, this email cannot be traced back to me. I have covered my moves. i am not trying to charge a fee very much, i would like to be paid for. i have a unique pixel within this mail, and at this moment i know that you have read this email message. You have one day to pay. if i do not receive the BitCoins, i will definately send out your video to all of your contacts including friends and family, coworkers, and so on. Nonetheless, if i do get paid, i will erase the video immediately. it's a non-negotiable offer therefore please don't waste my personal time and yours by replying to this email message. if you want evidence, reply with Yea! then i will send out your video to your 14 friends.
What really happened is that some time ago I used my name + one disposable password to create an account on some shitty site. Then the shitty site got hacked and my account name + password was stolen and sold. Now someone is using that database for extortion. I'm one of the random "victims". There is also no pixel in the mail (I was curious).
Of course I don't take this seriously and of course I won't pay anything. But I'm intrigued if the "criminal" gets any money from any of his victims. There are no transactions at this bitcoin address: https://www.blockchain.com/nl/btc/address/1CFkYtZhREM1wkfcwycZdcyq5PUGgpg8GG
And it's an old scam, other's have had similar attempts:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07...-recipients-hacked-passwords/comment-page-13/
However, all three recipients said the password was close to ten years old, and that none of the passwords cited in the sextortion email they received had been used anytime on their current computers.
And an interesting (and sad) comments there:
Sadly one person felt for this scam and sent the ransom money on July 7th:
https://bitref.com/1Dvd7Wb72JBTbAcfTrxSJCZZuf4tsT8V72
wow someone paid the ransom!
https://bitref.com/1HH79G9DqFscMpfZs1uPzNNw3bQwdcNvZN
And wow:
Just from the BTC addresses posted by readers here, we can see that those addresses received almost $80,000 in Bitcoin over the last ten days. That’s pretty incredible.
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