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 ...
Smart person!!
HOW LAZY can a human being be (me) to not even do that!!??
I suppose changing your password on a regular basis is out of the question?
Link will direct you to sign up for their service - a scam in a scam.
“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...”
[Even if you were NOT watching porn.]
Anyone watch the movie, “Rat Race?”
The straight laced white guy who didn’t even want to put a single coin in a slot machine was maligned and humiliated by the clerk:
“It says it right here. Afro-whores at 9 PM. Afro-whores at 9:30. And then at 10. Then Gilligan’s Island for five minute and then back to Afro-whores until 6:00 AM.”
Never stop being you, bro. I enjoy you, and I'm sure others appreciate an honest man too.
I would like to know you in real life. You'd be hella fun.
No webcams in the house.
My office one points at ceiling when not in use. If it gets used twice a year, I’m doing something wrong. My dream job is to be like the guy in Office Space who plays with a stapler and gets paid for it.
#TurnedTheTideOfHistory
The OTR shows of Dragnet are still among my favorites on XM 148 and YouTube.
We got an interesting email last week, supposedly from Amazon. It said our passcode had been changed, and to use the new one they’re sending the next time we logged in. Deleted the email. The old password works.
I am seeing “scalpers” on facebook now “selling” tickets to free “eventbright” events
Also seeing facebook “scalpers” selling “tickets” they don’t have to club shows (get the paypal payment and nothing sent in return)
I haven’t fallen for the scams but see the listings and read about the complaints.
But rather than stopping wire fraud on their site, Fakebook is more concerned about halting political dissent from the DNC-Rino-globalist alliance.
Mr mm got that.
What a laugh.
He keeps his camera covered when not in use and doesn’t watch porn.
The only ones who are going to feel fear at the ones who do and know they are guilty.
Newsflash, GOD sees it all and at the end when we face Him our lives are going to be an open book for Him to see.
Webcam footage of me watching porn? That would be a funny email, not scary. I don’t watch porn, and I don’t even have a webcam. Kind of like when I got the call from some guy claiming to be from Microsoft tech support - trying to walk me through “fixing a security issue with my computer that had been reported to Microsoft” ... I played dumb and followed along for a minute or so, screwing up every thing he told me to do... until I finally couldn’t keep a straight face anymore, burst out laughing, told him “I run linux you dumb scammer” and hung up on him.
I got one of those yesterday, on a seldom used alumni account. It went like this:
“Hello!
My nickname in darknet is des53.
I hacked this mailbox more than six months ago. Through it I infected your operating system with a virus (trojan) created by me and have been monitoring you for a long time.
Even if you changed the password after that - it does not matter, my virus intercepted all the caching data on your computer
and automatically saved access for me.
I have access to all your accounts, social networks, email, browsing history.
Accordingly, I have the data of all your contacts, files from your computer, photos and videos.
I was most struck by the adult sites that you occasionally visit.
You have a very wild imagination, I tell you!
During your pastime and entertainment there, I took screenshot through the camera of your device, synchronizing with what you are watching.
Oh my god! You were so funny and excited!
I think that you do not want all your contacts to get these files, right?
If you are of the same opinion, then I think that $900 is quite a fair price to destroy the dirt I created.
Send the above amount to my Bitcoin wallet: 3Qu84d52Tp2uw7sXbskC184pjKqtbcP7rJ
As soon as the above amount is received, I guarantee that the data will be deleted, I do not need it.
Otherwise, these files and history of visiting sites will get all your contacts from your device.
Also, I’ll send to everyone your contact access to your email and access logs, which I have carefully saved.
Since reading this letter you have 48 hours!
After your reading this message, I’ll receive an automatic notification that you have seen the letter.
I hope I taught you a good lesson.
Visit safe websites only, and don’t enter your passwords anywhere!
Good luck!”
Should I pay, LOL?
On a related subject, I had a long talk with my 12 yr old grandson today about masturbation. I told him it was natural and normal. Everyone does it. Girls do it too. Then I told him it was probably a good idea if he knocked before entering my room next time.
Yeah facebook has their priorities in the right place.
If up their a@@ is the right place.
I HATE scammers and crooks and thieves and con artists - like the dem party :)
WORK for a living!!
If we were in our 20s at the same time and went out on the town one night together, we’d need someone back at home with 5,000 bail.
I THINK that might have been enough :)
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