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".
“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.
They will release me masturbating to Porn. Cool, I’ll be Famous!
I got that email about 6 weeks ago. Deleted it and haven’t heard anything since.
I've got many different passwords and I don't visit porn sites.
I tell scammers, "come on over and I'll give you everything you've got coming."
Probably more actually, know they got my common pw when yahoo got hacked because Amazon locked my acct until I changed it and probably the Expedia hack.
Now I'm using a borrowed laptop, hope temporarily, and that won't make any difference. And I have NEVER stored my pw on my hd. But I get sick of writing them down every time I change and don't bother with others.
And I'm not invincible. Those programs you buy would have saved me from Blaster way back or they got around Norton, can't remember, are only good until there are new hacks they didn't code for and so on.
And if I order online, sometimes another email mimicking it gets in. And they almost do a perfect copy of my isp but didn't pass the smell test and I called to verify.
What a pain. I quit updating flash. And I click on links in emails sometimes anyway. Those I really really trust. Keep the camera on my desktop pc covered but don't know where it is on this Macbook Pro 2011?
Tnx for the reminder, SunkenCiv. I will change the pw on my email acct. Wish I could remember what I use for gmail should be what works on yt and Google Maps but if you are using a different computer, you have to jump through more hoops to use it there. Same w/my credit union; evidently they only allow one device. So I use the phone one which is not as nice but useful nonetheless.
I received one of those threats. It had one of my throw-away passwords, so I knew the hack was real.
Unless I payed the ransom, a damning video would be released... my attitude — go for it — I really don’t give a # even if such a video could possibly exist.
Thanks for posting. This happened to me. I appreciate the advice in the article!
Boy are they barking up the wrong tree. I don’t have a web cam don’t own a laptop...
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.”
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.
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?