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Again and again. This time with a new text. Bad as the last one. But: This is a type of phishing scam in which a person is tricked into paying a ransom by threatening to share a video of themselves visiting an adult site. These scams are made all the more believable by providing seemingly plausible technical details about how this was accomplished, and the phish can sometimes include the person’s password.
Phishes are designed to play on people’s emotions to get them to act out of character, and scams like this are no different. They don’t know if you have a webcam, if you visit adult sites, or how you communicate with people – in a word, they guess. Phishers hope to arouse people’s emotions to make them “take bait” and pay ransom – a common tactic.
It is for use in such cases: Do not pay. Go to the police immediately. Most of the time, the perpetrators are completely disorganised and will give themselves up. Post on the relevant bitcoin forums that the account is being used for extortion. If the perpetrators become publicly known as extortionists, no one will pay.
Hello !
Have you recently noticed that I have e-mailed you from your account?
Yes, this simply means that I have total access to your device.
For the last couple of months, I have been watching you.
Still wondering how is that possible? Well, you have been infected with malware originating from an adult website that you visited. You may not be familiar with this, but I will try explaining it to you.
With help of the Trojan Virus, I have complete access to a PC or any other device.
This simply means I can see you at any time I wish to on your screen by simply turning on your camera and microphone, without you even noticing it. In addition, I have also got access to your contacts list and all your correspondence.
You may be asking yourself, “But my PC has an active antivirus, how is this even possible? Why didn’t I receive any notification?” Well, the answer is simple: my malware uses drivers, where I update the signatures every four hours, making it undetectable, and hence keeping your antivirus silent.
I have a video of you wanking on the left screen, and on the right screen – the video you were watching while masturbating.
Wondering how bad could this get? With just a single click of my mouse, this video can be sent to all your social networks, and e-mail contacts.
I can also share access to all your e-mail correspondence and messengers that you use.
All you have to do to prevent this from happening is – transfer bitcoins worth $1450 (USD) to my Bitcoin address (if you have no idea how to do this, you can open your browser and simply search: “Buy Bitcoin”).
My bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) is: 1KRBGGiiVLq5zNkBtp5LYnKWtD3tSKdMSJ
After receiving a confirmation of your payment, I will delete the video right away, and that’s it, you will never hear from me again.
You have 2 days (48 hours) to complete this transaction.
Once you open this e-mail, I will receive a notification, and my timer will start ticking.
Any attempt to file a complaint will not result in anything, since this e-mail cannot be traced back, same as my bitcoin id.
I have been working on this for a very long time by now; I do not give any chance for a mistake.
If, by any chance I find out that you have shared this message with anybody else, I will broadcast your video as mentioned above.
