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mahatmakanejeeves

(56,884 posts)
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:09 PM Jan 2019

OMG! I've been hacked!

You have been hacked.
From: "Anonymous Hacker" <darknet5@beetcoin.net>
To:Recipients <darknet5@beetcoin.net>
Sent: Wed, Jan 02, 2019 08:31 PM
Hello,

I have looked at you for several months.
In fact, you have been infected with malicious software through an adult site that you
visited.
If you are not familiar with this, I will explain it.
The Trojan virus gives me complete access and control over a computer or other device.
That means I can see everything on the screen and turn on the camera and microphone, but
you're not aware of this.
Thus, I also got access to all your contacts.
Why the antivirus program did not detect malicious code?
Answer: I have a Trojan driver, I update their signatures every four hours so your
antivirus is silent.
I made a video showing how to satisfy yourself on the left half of the screen, and in the
right half you see the video you watched.
With a click of a button, I can send this video to all your email and social networking
contacts.
To prevent this, transfer the amount of 720 USD to my bitcoin address ( if you do not know
how, google "Buy Bitcoin" ).
Bitcoin Address: 1CnQxRTP5WeGmwaSriYdefDEHyjWpY7tjw
As soon as the payment is received, I will remove the video and you will never hear me
again.
I give you 24 hours to pay.
Do not worry, I have a notification that reads this letter, and the timer works when you
read this letter.
Submitting complaints to somewhere is not meaningful because this email can not be traced
as my bitcoin address.
I make no mistakes.
If I find that you have submitted a report or shared this message with someone else, the
video will be distributed immediately.
Sincerely!
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unblock

(51,973 posts)
9. Iirc, in that episode they actually sent the blackmail video
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:22 PM
Jan 2019

to the victim to prove they had it. They didn't just describe it with very general words, lol.

Ooh, we made a video of you masturbating to... *stuff*!

fleur-de-lisa

(14,615 posts)
13. Good plan. I receive those messages all the time.
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 04:55 PM
Jan 2019

I have never visited a porn site.

The camera in my computer is covered.

They also threaten to post my "porn-watching" habits on Facebook. I don't have a Facebook account.

I suspect they send thousands of these emails daily. Statistically, there must be a good number of people (men, I guess?) that fall for this blackmail threat.

ret5hd

(20,433 posts)
4. Well, yours is positively benign!!! Look at mine:
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:17 PM
Jan 2019

Hi there... . I run a website in the deep web,I perform all sorts of services - basically it is destruction to property and injury.In the main,all but the shooting.Often this happens because of unrequited love or competition at work.This week he contacted me and set me the mission of empty acid in your visage.Standard task - quickly,hurts,forever.Without too much fuss.I get receive only after finishing the work.Thus, now I offer you pay me to be inactive,I suggest this to nearly all the victims.If I do not get money from you, then my performer will fulfill the task.If you send me money,besides to my inactivity,I will provide you the information that I have about the customer.After completing the mission, I often waist the performer,so I have a choice,to get $1250 from you for information about the customer and my inaction,or to receive $ 6000 from the customer,but with a high probability of losing the performer... I’m getting money in btc,here’s my Bitcoin address - (note: i edited the bitcoin address out) The amount I told above 12 hours to decide and pay, and remember that wall clock is clacking

ret5hd

(20,433 posts)
10. Well, if both our blackmailers are legitimate, at least you know...
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:25 PM
Jan 2019

i won't be watching the "video showing how to satisfy yourself"

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
14. Obviously passed through an on-line translator...
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 05:42 PM
Jan 2019

that did a piss-poor job. Would be interesting to know what the original language was.

Same message likely passed on to millions of people of many languages. All it takes is a small percentage that fall for the scam and they make a good living from it.

As P. T. Barnum said: "There's a sucker born every minute". And Trump has proven we have millions of them.

csziggy

(34,119 posts)
16. If my wall clock were clacking I would be very worried!
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 11:11 PM
Jan 2019

I got one of this kind of messages a while back, then a couple of weeks later a couple more, identical except for the amount they wanted paid into a bitcoin account. Total BS in the message - part of it said the guy had been monitoring my camera when I visit porn sites. Two problems there - I've never been to a porn site in the history of the internet (and I have been online since 1982) and this computer, which I assembled, has never had a webcam attached to it.

I add their domain to my junk mail filter, trash them, and don't worry about them.

brush

(53,467 posts)
8. It's a bullshit scam. Delete the email and forget about it.
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:21 PM
Jan 2019

It's a script the sender is working from and it's designed to scare you into falling for their blackmail.

You've probably gotten others, maybe by phone, from fake FBI agents saying they will be at your door to arrest you for some ginned up reason if you don't send them funds. Or the fake Windows operating system callers who say they've found viruses or some such on your computer.

This one is a little scarier but more of the same. I got a similar one and couldn't delete it fast enough, and of course none of the dire consequences they threatened happened.

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