Posted on 03/18/2022 12:54:35 PM PDT by Varmint Al
Switch to the CP/M operating system and it will fix everythng.
“Ignore it and move on with your life.”
BINGO! Most are nothing. Just ignore, and move on. Nothing to worry about.
I had one of those and I would have never found if I hadn’t put an email in spam by mistake . They said they had my email and was tracking me online(with a throwaway email) , they wanted 5013 bitcoins , it got deleted . They were phishing looking for idiots
You want to report suspected Illegal Ransomware Activity by the FBI to the FBI?? You’re Killing me.
The government is not interested in protecting civilians or corporations from hackers. This was an actual decision made back in the ‘80’s. There is a group set up that appears to have that job, but it’s not dealing with individuals like us.
Okay, so I’ve got no advice about ransom ware.
But posting that you do porn on an open forum may not be the best idea, even if you think everybody does it.
I’m not gonna get preachy but I will relate the tale of the least fortunate screenshot possibly ever. I happened on this tale of woe not long after it had already reached maximum humiliation for the guy involved.
It was, IIRC, on a chevy truck (a truck forum at least, if not chevy) forums and in a thread dedicated to a picture that one of our probes had sent back of Saturn and it’s rings backlit by the distant sun. A magnificent picture that many may recall.
One fellow downloaded the picture to use as his screen picture and was so happy with how it looked that he took a screenshot and posted it to the thread.
A few post later one sharp eyed forumite responded “Nice She-Males Video folder.” and chaos ensued.
Now, we can take comfort that Freepers aren’t the sort that will delight in the misery of others and our esteemed host would not prevent an especially unfortunate post from ever being deleted OR make it the unfortunate guy’s avatar … nope, this will slide here and good that it will …. but this cautionary tale may be of use for any other forum anyone visits.
Best of luck with the other issue.
Oh wow. Thanks for triggering a memory.
In 1981 i bought a microsoft z80 card for my apple II from Omega computers so i could run Sargon
File a DMCA takedown notice for using your image without permission :-)
Could you link me to that decision? I’ve wondered about this.
“Could you link me to that decision? I’ve wondered about this.”
It was from an article I read years ago. The NSA didn’t want the assignment, probably because it isn’t something you can easily “win” at. The logic was that if the government managed to protect, say, IBM, but failed to protect, say, Exon, then it would have preferentially used taxpayer funding to aid one company over another. Below is a search on who protects us from cyber crime. But from what I learned talking to the company IT guys, these guys just take data you give them and then put out warnings and such.
Almost invariably the source is a foreign country, and the perpetrators are either bribing local officials with a cut of the proceeds for "protection" or they are activity sponsored by the foreign government.
Some principal sources are Nigeria, Somalia (!!), India, Belarus, and China.
Short-lived gangs have shown up in the US, Great Britain, Germany, and Israel. They get shut down pretty fast.
Ransomware operations take a lot of time, and the payoff per-hour is relatively low. So is the risk. The big money is in selling ransomware tools to the would-be pirates. The Russians used to do quite a bit of that. Don't know if they still do.
Bitcoins are traceable to all users, back to inception. It is expensive and time-consuming, but possible. You can't do it, but national governments can. When the hits are big enough, they do.
Even though they have spoofed your email address in the email you saw, you could go to the source coding of your that particular email and find the real ip address. Then, do a WHOIS search and you could come up with the place of the sender. I’m also guess that email you received is a .jpg.
It really doesn’t do any good to report to any authority that you received this. It isn’t worth anyone’s time to press on with it.
Just ignore.
I delete (without opening) three to a dozen such emails a day. Just part of the price of being on the Innertubes.
My email provider (NOT Guugle or Yahuu) reminds me to change my account password every couple of months.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Go here. Safe. You’ll find out which website or store was hacked and how your email got into the dark web scam list.
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