{"id":296,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"'Our-Group-Will-Not-Poison-Your-Life'-Fake-Blackmail-Sextortion-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Our Group Will Not Poison Your Life&#8217; Fake Blackmail Sextortion Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This email claims that the sender has used a &#8220;private computer worm&#8221; to create a video of you &#8220;caressing your body&#8221; while you visited a porn website. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, the sender not only activated your webcam to record the compromising video but also made a copy of your contact list. \u00a0 The sender \u00a0threatens to post the compromising video to all of your contacts if you do not pay $440 in bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>However, the sender has not really recorded video of you or stolen your contact list. The email is just a bluff designed to panic you into sending money to online criminals.<\/p>\n<p>If criminals really had infected your system with malware, harvested your personal information, and recorded video as claimed, then they would have all of these details and plenty more. And, they would almost certainly use at least some of this information to convince you that their threats were real.<\/p>\n<p>This is just one version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/tag\/sextortion\/\">many similar \u00a0sextortion scam emails<\/a> that have been hitting inboxes in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers send out thousands of identical emails in the hope of netting at least a few victims. Even if only a tiny percentage of recipients \u00a0fall for the trick and pay up, the scammers will make a profit.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that it is possible to use malware to steal information from your computer and even \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/columnist\/saltzman\/2018\/03\/01\/has-someone-hacked-your-webcam-heres-how-stop-cyber-snoopers\/377676002\/\">activate the device&#8217;s camera<\/a>. This adds a measure of plausibility to the scam emails that may help convince some victims to pay up.<\/p>\n<p>But, with these fake blackmail scam messages, the criminals have not installed malware on your computer and have not created a video of you. \u00a0 To reiterate, they are just randomly distributing the same email to very large numbers of people and banking on the mathematical probability that at least a few people will be panicked enough to pay.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive one of these emails, do not respond to it. \u00a0 Just hit the delete key. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Some Versions Include Passwords<\/h2>\n<p>Some versions of these scam emails increase the chance that the claims will be taken seriously because they include a valid password associated with one of the recipient&#8217;s accounts. \u00a0 Because of the included password, even people who have not been to an adult website may believe that the scammer has infiltrated their computer. As I \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-blackmail-sextortion-scam-emails-using-real-passwords\/\">discuss in more detail in a separate report<\/a>, \u00a0 it appears that they are collecting the passwords and the associated email addresses from old data breaches. Many commentators have pointed out that the passwords in the emails are very old and no longer being used.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-blackmail-sextortion-scam-emails-using-real-passwords\/\">Read more information about the password versions here. \u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2>An example of the \u00a0scam email:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"example\">We do not want to laugh at you&#8230; Take it seriously. Our group will not poison your life if you follow our advices.<\/div>\n<div class=\"example\">You can find a lot of varied manuals about safe web using- virtual private network ; install the newest computer protectors; hide webcam with the scotch tape. But you neglect everything.<\/div>\n<div class=\"example\">I counted 800 victims which were infected by my private computer worm&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"example\">I paced it in faked site with adobe player. People downloaded it and did not suspect any danger, as you know this software is necessary for all computers to process videos in web&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"example\">You have also fallen for my bait.<\/div>\n<div class=\"example\">My built-in parser responded to calls to porn-sites in your connections. Instantly after you tapped on a play button my soft turned on the web-cam to shoot you caressing your body. After my malware copied the video which you opened on your device.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"example\">With form-grabber demolished history and got all details from your accounts which you have visited from previous Wednesday. I made a copy of your contact list with your friends, collegues and relatives.<\/div>\n<div class=\"example\">Let&#8217;s put it all together- I got vid with you masturbating; contact list of your mates; record that you were watching on the device.<\/div>\n<div class=\"example\">If you do not want to be dishonored just send me 440 united states dollars in bitcoins.<br \/>\nUse this wallet address &#8211; [Removed]Think better: become popular or pay little bit to safe your social status.<br \/>\nCops cant help. We write you through our botnet, also I do not live in your country. You cant find my ip in a header of this message.<br \/>\nFor some questions just reply.<br \/>\nThink twice.<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/our-group-will-not-poison-your-life-fake-blackmail-sextortion-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/our-group-will-not-poison-your-life-fake-blackmail-sextortion-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This email claims that the sender has used a &#8220;private computer worm&#8221; to create a video of you &#8220;caressing your body&#8221; while you visited a porn website. \u00a0 Supposedly, the sender not only activated your webcam to record the compromising video but also made a copy of your contact list. \u00a0 The sender \u00a0threatens to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}