Posted on 04/20/2020 10:53:32 AM PDT by know.your.why
Just sharing a disturbing anonymous email that was in my inbox this morning. The email tells me to send $2000 in bitcoin to a bitcoin address or they will send camera porn of me (I dont have a camera) to my friends, coworkers, and relatives.
If you get this same scam you can report it at. https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/
They didn’t get my password quite right. And, the porn thing for me, really? Can they help me to where sexual activity would affect me again? I might pay for that....
“”””Yeah, but people should have any PC/notebook etc cams taped over anyway, just out of basic privacy reasons.””””
Yup. First thing I do when I get a new laptop, black tape over the camera.
I'm offended I've never gotten it.
I had a similar eMail with a follow up a few days later.
Nothing happens.
Real Astute Grammarian, aint they?
[[𝖨𝖿 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗌𝖾𝗇𝖽 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 '𝖽𝗈𝗇𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇' (𝗅𝖾𝗍 𝗎𝗌 𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅 𝗂𝗍 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍?).]]
Dang, i was gonna call it a 'Walrus'
[[𝗌𝗈 𝖽𝗈 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖺𝗍𝗍𝖾𝗆𝗉𝗍 𝗍𝗈 𝗉𝗅𝖺𝗒 𝗌𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍.]]
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OK Einstein- we won't- but I'll need your social security number, phone number, and bank account numbers in order to make my check out to you- oh, and if you live in the US- ) please send post haste (that means pronto Einstein)- throw in your birth certificate too- just incase something goes wrong with the electronic transfer of funds to you- One can never be too prepared- Also- please include your stimulus check so i can verify if it's legit or not- you can't be too careful- I'll send it right back to you 'Post Haste' (That means "Pronto", Incase you forgot Since last I told you the meaning)
Looking forward to doing business with you, oh, and can my FBI buddy get in on this too? He's always keen on these nifty super duper fly by night business prospects
“First thing I do when I get a new laptop, black tape over the camera.”
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Yeah, though you can usually just turn it off using the PC software, I think it can be hacked into to turn it back on. Besides, with a piece of tape, if you want to use the cam, it’s easy enough to peel it off and put it back on again when finished.
Email scam? On the Internet? No way!
You didn’t pay and I got your damn porn!
You mean it really doesn’t work like in the Cyanide and Happiness video?
NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3zjRcMnRNY
I reply that their price is a bit steep, but I should be able to scratch it together in a month or two. Please release it as soon as possible. It has been my life’s dream to be a porn star.
I got three of those in the last couple of weeks. The subject headline was an old password I used to use.
Too bad for them - I started wearing a mask at home too.
>>qmvNarwNX8SknaBqBeo4okUHba3mKtwx
Is that the Nigerian prince’s name this week?
Nope, completely wrong. There are databases easily accessible with hundreds of millions of accounts with email addresses (usernames) and passwords. They "personalize" the email to you with that password. These are most often very ancient passwords that you have probably changed already. If you haven't, shame on you.
When I get these emails, they have a password I used a decade or more ago in them.
This just reinforces how you need to change passwords periodically. You might want to check Have I Been Pwned?.
Wiki-->Have I Been Pwned? is a website that allows internet users to check whether their personal data has been compromised by data breaches. The service collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps and pastes containing information about billions of leaked accounts, and allows users to search for their own information by entering their username or email address. Users can also sign up to be notified if their email address appears in future dumps. The site has been widely touted as a valuable resource for internet users wishing to protect their own security and privacy. Have I Been Pwned? was created by security expert Troy Hunt on 4 December 2013.As of June 2019, Have I Been Pwned? averages around one hundred and fifty thousand daily visitors, the site has nearly three million active email subscribers and contains records of almost eight billion accounts.
That had a happy ending.
I’m surprised that this is still going on. I figured that Hillary’s cleaners took care of this problem the first time the Clintons’ got this email.
LOL, that’s one way to achieve “Social Distancing”.
We’ve seen them. Not worth $2,000. :-)
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