Posted on 10/25/2018 9:04:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Ian Kar, a New York-based product manager who was sent the scammy email... said he was pretty sure his password was included in one of the big leaks in the past few years — databases have been stolen from LinkedIn, Yahoo, and eBay, for example. You can check whether your password is in one of these leaked databases over at the website Have I Been Pwned.
Basically, the attackers don't actually have video of you or access to your contacts, and they haven't been able to install malicious code on your computer. In reality, they're taking a password from a database that's available online, sending it to you, and hoping you're scared enough to believe their story and send them bitcoin.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Full title: "People are being victimized by a terrifying new email scam where attackers claim they stole your password and hacked your webcam while you were watching porn — here's how to protect yourself".
What to Do if Your Email Account Has Been Hacked
https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/what-to-do-if-your-email-account-has-been-hacked
“Actually, I was filming it. You send ME Bitcoin or I’ll keep doing so!”
I just watched an episode of “Dragnet” from 1967 and nothing has really changed. Two men were scamming seniors out of her paltry (by our standards today) life savings.
Webcam is covered and don't watch porn.
Would they care to try again?
So I sent the emails to my spam folder but I did make sure that all my sites had a secure 12 digit alphanumeric passwords (auto-generated through LastPass). It's sort of a pain maintaining those complicated passwords
My webcam has a flag sticker over it.
Mine has duct tape-—I’m boring.
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Did they do that, 'turn heads and look at each other' bit every 10 seconds or so?
Electrician tape
Didn’t cover webcam and DID watch porn here :)
Sorry, not perfect like you :)
Got a picture of me on an “FBI” page
Told me to send 300 or I would be arrested in 3 days.
Because that’s how the FBI works.
I was in my early 40s.
50 now. Don’t look at porn too much anymore. By mid 50s, probably won’t care at all about it. But I hope I still do :)
Don’t worry. I’ll go to confession.
As for the 300 dollar request, I didn’t pay sh##
But it took me 20 minutes of following 5 page long instructions on how to unfreeze my computer :)
As for the webcam snapshot they had of me, They could post my ####ing fat body on the cover of the NY Times and I wouldn’t give a flying f###.
Stopped giving a sh## what 99.99 percent of folks thought about me a long time ago.
It is ok to admit being a humanoid on this site still, right?
Nearly everyone is so “practically perfect in every way” like Marry Poppins, if one goes by the posts, that I just wanted to check :)
buona notte!!
Why ask me a question you already know the answer to?
Yeah, I know.
They will release me masturbating to Porn. Cool, I’ll be Famous!
Mine too!
I don’t think you’re the single person keeping that multi-billion dollar industry in business, if that’s what you mean. A late young nephew of mine once made an interesting observation “All natural men look at porn.”
Every show on television, radio show, play and movie is formulaic.
I got that email about 6 weeks ago. Deleted it and haven’t heard anything since.
I would welcome seeing that instead of two guys kissing.
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