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I just got an email that I pasted below the asterisks.  The only thing they have right is an old password that I still use for forums I’ve belonged to for years.  Mostly computer and photography related forums.  They are telling me they have videos from a porn site and my web cam and well, you can read the email.  I do not have a web cam, nor do I use Messenger, Outlook or Facebook.  I removed my password from the email.  Their BTC address is listed, tho I removed the last 4 characters for the purpose of posting here.  They are demanding $1,000 within 24 hours.  I do believe this is a scam of some sort.  If I click on reply, there is no address and if I try to look at all headers in the email, it is not available.  Never seen that before.  Is there a way to trace this person and find out who they are?  I am not sending them anything. 

One thing I did notice the other day is that a proxy program I run always in Firefox got turned off the other day.  That’s never happened before.


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It seems that, (*****************), is your password. You may not know me and you are probably wondering why you are getting this e mail, right?
 
actually, I put in place a trojans over the adult vids (adult porn) web-site and you know what, you visited this web site to have fun (you know what I mean). While you were watching videos, your internet browser began working like a RDP (Remote Access) which provided accessibility of your screen and web cam. and then, my computer software obtained all of your current contacts from your Messenger, Outlook, Facebook, as well as emails.
 
What did I really do?
 
I made a double-screen video clip. First part shows the video you're seeing (you have a good taste haha . . .), and 2nd part shows the recording of your web camera.
 
exactly what should you do?
 
Well, in my opinion, $1000 is a fair price for your little secret. You'll make the payment by Bitcoin (if you do not know this, search "how to buy bitcoin" in Google).
 
BTC Address: 15mwbKGQ2MMQW91G6VUwHx8huEFRZZ****
(It is case sensitive, so copy and paste it)
 
Very important:
You've got 1 day in order to make the payment. (I have a completely unique pixel within this e mail, and at this moment I know that you have read through this email message). If I don't get the BitCoins, I will certainly send out your videos to all of your contacts including family members, colleagues, and so forth. Having said that, if I get the payment, I'll destroy the recording immidiately. If you'd like evidence, reply with "Yes!" and i'll undoubtedly send your videos to your 6 contacts. It is a non-negotiable offer, that being said don't waste my personal time and yours by answering this message.

Wait for one day, scammer will move on to next victim. They live on your fear, don't feed them.

It's a scam, and it has hit the news a long time ago:
https://www.techlicious.com/blog/is-the-porn-blackmail-scam-real/

But one thing is certain, if they did get that password right it means one of those forum's security has been compromised so stop using it for any of your accounts from now on.

It's just a scam, they don't really get your video.
They just use your inner fear to cheat. >:(

I appreciate the responses.  I could pretty much read scam thru the whole thing, specially since I do not have or use a web cam, nor do I use messenger Outlook, or Facebook and they did not mention the name of the web site, important info if they wanted to be believed, but the password bothers me.  How would they get my password?  I was not and am not in fear of this email, but I am definitely ticked off.  I would love to get my hands on this person, or at least expose him and press charges.

I was hoping since I have their BTC number, tho I left the last 4 characters off for the purpose of posting, that it would be possible to find this person.  There is no contact info on the Bitcoin site, so I registered for this forum.

Probably or more like certainly from one of the forums.
The database either got hacked or the owner decided to sell it, or....


I assume you're new to bitcoin  ;D
That's a payment address, you can't link a real-life person with that address unless he makes a mistake by posting it somewhere.
The only way to trace him is by tracing the funds and hoping he does deposit them on an exchange where again he will hopefully use his real name and identity.

Chances for that? Close to zero.

But if someone here wants to play the detective is better you let us know the whole address...


Bitcoin is a decentralized currency, there is no contact, there is no support.

My advice is to change that password you have used in multiple places to a new one or even better make a distinct password for each forum/email/service. This way if shit happens again not only you will be safe and only one account will be compromised but you will also know how he got that pass.

it seems like the author of that Email watches too many movies that he thinks "hacking" is that easily done through a website inside your browser, specially today's browsers.

and to answer your other question, no you can not find a person like that. i see that the address is different in the link @stompix posted above so they may know what they are doing which means tracking is that much more difficult.


you can easily brute force it ;)
it is only ~11 million possibilities. it will only take about 4 minutes. although i have to modify some code to do it for an address which takes time and i am lazyyyy

As the others have stated this is a pure scam and not possible to track someone like that.  The scammer is hoping to get 1 out of 100 to have an emotional response and pay up.  99% of the time you just ignore this type of trash.

it is fraud, before you have to recognize some fraud modes like for example you receive an email from some popular Bitcoin services to suggest you visit their website using information from your BTC wallet, in this case the fraudster aims to find out your personal data, by therefore beware.

Wow! This looks like a movie. If you are not involved in any of the things that the person  mentioned then you don't need to panic.  It's a warning for you to tighten up your Security.

That's some email you got there.  Mom and dad always told you to stay away from the porn right?  Either way I would simply ignore this one.  Maybe send an email back saying you have contacted the police and they are investigating. 

That person who email you are trying to convince you that he/she have a video that you are watching pornsites then doing a crazy things while watching which is not actually you do or it never happens, that was a trick that when you fall in this,  they can get a payment from you. I think that person cannot feed himself by its own, and this is a thing he/she thinks to get on.

Can I get a copy of the vid by any chance?  LOL  Just kidding man.  I would tell this guy to f off.  Send him 10 cents worth of bitcoin.  See if you can irritate him into a mistake.  Write an email back.  Maybe his vpn will screw up.  Play dirty with this one. 

Email seem to be written by a kid and he only asked for $1000 lol.

Even if its true that you actually did something horrible infront of the camera, don't send them that amount or they will just keep asking. You wouldn't actually believe they'd delete the videos, if they got some money, they will asks for more later on. Who cares about you jacking  :D

This seems like true blackmail but do you really do what was explain in the text. I mean do you watch porn. it is painful that bitcoin have always been use for illegal stuff like this. I have experience someone file being locked and he was asked to pay to a btc wallet before. I have notice that bitcoin traders, investors and hunter also have chance of being exposed to different type of malware. sometime ago, I discover that my laptop battery is getting drain faster and it makes alot of hovering noise due to high CPU usage. I downloaded a malwarebyte antivrus and scan my system. I was surprise that I have been infected with a virus called coinminer. the virus use the power of the system to mine crypto without your consent.

This is the new type of scam and it's pretty obvious out of 10 five will be doing this and they'll fall for it, as for the password check the site was using ssl or no, it often happens  they don't use ssl or you used public wifi but good thing you're safe. However as a safety precaution change all passwords you normally use. Relax this is just a hoax and you won cause you called their bluff.

Its clearly a scam you said you do not have a webcam and in the email says they have a video watching you a porn Its impossible if do not have any webcam attached in your computer You dont have to worry nice try by the hacker but he failed lol.

I assumed there would be a forum rule about posting the whole address, so I left the last 4 characters off.  If it’s ok to post it, I will.

I think this is what actually happened to you - some of the forums and websites you have an account at got their databases leaked on the Internet. There are online directories where they collect and sell the data dumps to interested parties. Some guy has gotten access to your old password and your associated email and now is trying to scare you into paying him for not revealing your little dirty secrets to your family & friends. And because nowadays everyone visits porn sites and has a web camera the scammer has chosen the 'shameful porn site' scenario to guilt trip you. You need not to worry about that, and a very easy fix for your situation is to choose a good password manager program and change all your old passwords. If you really have no web cam it's virtually impossible for the scammer to have any recording of you.

I got something similar almost a year ago but they didn't manage to get ahold of my password. They wanted a ridiculously low amount of money (like around the $100 range) and made the same threat about social media and porn. It also said something that they would know when I read the email and I had 24 hours until then to send the money so some bitcoin address.

I ignored it and nothing happened, but I thought it was kind of funny actually. Scammers are getting more and more clever because they realize that if they make a threat that feels like you've been backed into a corner and don't demand an excessive amount of money, they can actually get more people to fall for their tricks.

I have belonged to so many forums over the years, I doubt I could count them all up.  Many do not use ssl and probably the forum I visit the most does not.  I know several forums have sold over the years, some to corporations that don’t seem to give a rats poop about the site as long as it generates money.

I can generally spot a scam in a heartbeat as I did with this one, but the BTC address they left was like nothing I’ve ever seen before.  I’m sure I’ve heard of Bitcoin on the news or a discussion in a forum, but today is the first time I’ve ever tried to understand what it is, and believe me, I still don’t understand it.

Everything in this world is used for blackmail. Drugs, medicine, politics, competitions, banks, businesses. How can you even mentioned that, compare that and use against Bitcoin ??? ??? ??? ???
A dollar is legal and it is used EVERY DAY for blackmail!!

Come on guys, be real

it seems like imagination among scammers is running wild these days but their creativity and knowledge is dwindling every day! in the past they at least made an effort to actually hack you and steal your money. nowadays it seems like they just make up a story and then ask you to pay them money :D

what happened was probably this:
some kid went on dark market and bought a password database which was leaked from some website or something with emails. then made up a automation script which chose every email in that list and sent the same message to them just changing names, password and possibly the bitcoin address requesting payment. and now that kid hopes for ROI...

if they had the video of you, they would attach it into the email to make their point. If they didn't, they are probably only bluffing, as it's an easy way to do this bluff. Don't you worry

Just ignore it. Anybody with some good skills can hack a webcam and then record you while you are browsing the internet and then link that to some random porn site and use that to blackmail you. If you were not masturbating in front of your computer, then you will be fine.  ;D

My webcam is only plugged in, when I Skype with friends and I prefer to have sex with my partner, so I would laugh at emails like this.

Best practice for the porn wankers out there is to cover your webcam, when you watching porn. ^lol^

nowadays a lot of modes of using bitcoin as extortion is not good for the development of bitcoin, because bitcoin is connected with criminal acts. I hope that the incident does not happen again and can utilize bitcoin properly.

hahahha that is true. My camera on the laptop is duck taped :) Long time ago when I started trading with crypto currencies I put the duck tape on camera and it stayed until today. It doesn't bother me. If I need a skype call I will take it off and then put it on after I finish.

bitcoin is being used for blackmail in india  by some of policemen  it happened in real , some people kidnap one of the merchant businessman they tried to ask ransom in bitcoin mode  because easily to escape no trace of payment like bank details or name or account number's .   i heard some group of members kidnap exchange owner also for bitcoin.   some group of members is so greedy they take technology in bad way they try to run away with money or steal money in easy way ,  not hardworking to earn money ,  some people treat bitcoin in bad way  bring it down  they misuse the technology so greedy people.

From your point of view, everything may be use to blackmail people.
Even the power of word fot example of a grouf of bad peolple.

You are responding for yourself.

The scammer use Bitcoin to scan you because it is hard to detect who use that Bitcoin address instead using Fiat currency. I don't think the scammer really have your videos because if the scammer really could break pc security, i think they will choose better prey instead you.

Lol. Ptobably best to disregard that email especially if you knowvfor yourself you don't have any webcam videos. Obviously the person doesn't know that and is only waiting for your reaction.

This is a random scam. Scammer seems always try to find a way to rob your money. This kind of scam i think easy to use.
Just need email addresses for victims, and they can do that. I believe they sent the message not only to you but many peoples as well.

That's is just a spam email trying to scam you. They probably got your old password and email address from some database leak and is using those information to just scare you a bit. They expected you to get startled seeing your password on their hands and try to extort you with the help of your fear and embarrassment. Typical old school scam. I still remember there used to be a scam/blackmail in US back in 2003-2004 where they used to send you letters stating that they know you were having an affair with someone else and was deceiving your wife. They even claim that they have enough proof to bust you, but those are just bullshit.

That's just a scam. I advice you to check further the website he's telling about wherein he got the way up to tell those stuff. Unfortunately, we can't determined the identity of a certain person with just the given bitcoin address itself that's why greedy people hiding in to get money using bitcoin and that's really unacceptable for everyone especially to those people who use bitcoin in a good way as how it must be used to.

Just be practical to what happening, its just a scammers if that kind of scenario happen to you ignored and leave because maybe your become a victim be careful always.

It is a cheap scam and funny too.. You should let go of the password and make new ones. This is also one of the down sides of bitcoin and cryptocurrency operating as a decentralized system, makes it almost impossible to track him through just his address.

That someone can not be tracked down thru Bitcoin just seems wrong.  Seems like an invitation for criminals to be able to continue scamming people with no fear of being found.

As we all know that bitcoin is a decentralised crypto currency and there is no such proper authentic regulating body over bitcoin that could keep eye over all the bitcoin activities and I think this defect is misused by some social deflauters as they misused it and use bitcoin in many illegal activities like selling drugs, explosives and money laundering and blackmailing even so this is the most important reason why many countries are in against of bitcoin and I think in this situation, awareness could be the great influence.

Scammers are pretty smart, even without Bitcoin they would have nice ways with which they won't get caught. Everything can be misused, Bitcoin just got a bad name.

That's why we need to protect our computer or mobile phone with updates security firewall, etc. Because it is our life, whether we realize it or not, we are indeed storing our important data in the media, even to our financial data. If I become a victim of blackmail, I will not give up and give what they ask for, the first thing I will do is of course, take my disk media and open it through another computer, then I copy important files to other media, so I will reset my computer that has become the hijack.

This morning I got 3 more identical emails, only from different people.  I deleted all 3 right away, but I’m assuming that none had return email addresses.  I have a program that lets me see my email on the server and delete or bounce it without ever downloading to my computer so none ever reached my computer.  Is this guy that stupid, or has he shared this with others?

This is a pure scam because scammer is playing with Ur fear and he is trying to do blackmail so u send bitcoin to him, wait and don't fear he is just playing from Ur emotions. that scammer can't access Ur emails and other personal details because most of scammers send these kind of emails to peoples, they collect information of that peoples who are connected with cryptocurrencies.

Well, I got the 4th one of the day just now.  In the program I have that lets me look at email on my server and delete without ever downloading to my computer, it let me look at the headers.  Below  the asterisks are some of the headers with the return email addy.  This time I left the Bitcoin link in tact.  I’m getting rather sick of this.  This makes a total of 5 times I’ve received this email, one when I started this thread and 4 today.

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Return-path: <important@williehowell.com>
Envelope-to: *****************
Received: from us11-006mrr.dh.atmailcloud.com ([172.16.7.6])
        by us11-401ms.dh.atmailcloud.com with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1)
        (envelope-from <important@williehowell.com>)
        id 1fn6Lx-0006vb-Hi
        Received: from mail.williehowell.com ([46.161.42.91])
       
 
 Content analysis details:   (2.4 points, 5.0 required)
 
  pts rule name              description
 ---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
  0.2 ATMAIL_BAD_SEKRIT1     BODY: itsasekrit
  1.5 BAYES_50               BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60%
                             [score: 0.5000]
  0.6 INVALID_MSGID          Message-Id is not valid, according to RFC 2822
  0.1 TO_IN_SUBJ             To address is in Subject

It seems that, (****************), is your password. You may not know me and you are probably wondering why you are getting this e mail, right?
 
in fact, I setup a viruses over the adult vids (adult) web-site and guess what happens, you visited this web site to have fun (you really know what I am talking about). During the time you were watching videos, your internet browser started out working as a RDP (Remote Desktop) which gave me accessibility to your screen and web cam. from then on, my software programs obtained all of your current contacts from your Messenger, Outlook, Facebook, in addition to emails.
 
What did I actually do?
 
I made a double-screen video. 1st part shows the recording you were watching (you've got a good taste haha . . .), and Second part shows the recording of your webcam.
 
exactly what should you do?
 
Well, in my opinion, $1000 is really a reasonable price for our little secret. You will make the payment by Bitcoin (if you don't know this, search "how to purchase bitcoin" search engines like google).
 
Bitcoin Address: 1Cft34zDzUDJpr1ze23HtJdW2ohdp3xXu
(It's case sensitive, so copy and paste it)
 
Very important:
You've one day in order to make the payment. (I have a unique pixel in this e-mail, and at this moment I am aware that you have read this email message). If I don't get the BitCoins, I will certainly send out your videos to all of your contacts including relatives, colleagues, and so forth. Having said that, if I receive the payment, I'll destroy the video immidiately. If you'd like evidence, reply with "Yes!" and I will certainly send out your videos to your 6 contacts. It is a non-negotiable offer, that being said don't waste my personal time and yours by answering this message.

Did you buy it? It's obviously scam, they are trying to take advantage your possible shameful history on internet. Don't give them a chance to do that. As some people said you must stop to use sites its passwords are disclosed.

There are lots of scams becaus it is easy to steal cryptocurrencies and I think it is worse than hackers, hackers at least find vulnerabilities in the system  :)

I also got the same e-mail but I didn't bother because I know that its a scam. Actually it gave me a good laugh because I know that I didn't do anything wrong (not watching porn) and I'm very careful because of of many hacks that's going on right now specially if you are involved in crypto. Yes I didn't give them the chance and I immediately permanently deleted it.

This is amazing. Scammers looking for new ways to scam people day in day out. People will never use their time profitably to earn for themselves, They would always want to rip people off their hard work earnings. It is good you realised it is a scam and that you have again sought people's opinion about it.

Its funny that most of these scams talk about people watching porn rather than doing any illegal stuff. Criminals proudly wear their crimes on their sleeves but people who watch porn mostly do it privately and don't like their actions being made public.
In olden days, blackmail only used to happen for sizable amounts and criminals asked for wire transfers. Bitcoin has just enabled micro-payments for blackmailers.

Were you j**king off behind your computer? :D Because that's the only embarrassing moment one could have while watching porn, Shame on you for visiting such websites and shame on the stupid hacker for being such an idiot not knowing that you don't have any camera/messenger/Outlook. Ignore them, Change your passwords where you have used the same password on different forums and stop watching porn all together.

You should know that people use bitcoin for all sorts of things such as contract killing/Extortion etc, They also use fiat but bitcoin is easier to use. If you know that they have nothing on you then it's for the best just to ignore them and move on.

Lol.. the scammer is not really smart, he shouldn't have mentioned other site like messenger or Facebook but trust me you have nothing to panic about, just visit all important site you have and change ur password.

This is one of the actions that will bring down the good name of Bitcoin which is currently developing for the better in the future. Of course we must act decisively! So that all Bitcoin users will become safer in the future. And we must continue to be vigilant, and also be careful in safeguarding the Bitcoin we have today. Hopefully all these unfavorable extortion actions will be resolved soon.

Didn't you read what I said? People already use bitcoin for their criminal activities, It's safe and it would be very difficult to track down the transactions to catch them. This is already a part of bitcoin, Nothing like this could ever bring down the system.
Some stupid kid got his hands on some password from some easy to hack forums and now they're trying their luck, Someone would either pay which would be good for the stupid kid or they wouldn't pay.
Even this forum was hacked at some point and all the emails/password hashes were leaked, Forum admins are people too, They could just sell your email and passwords to someone interested in buying them.

He is fishing, I am sure that he has sent this email on million+ addresses. In the sea of those,  he might find someone who is watching adult movies and is doing some nasty stuff while watching. Getting scared by just thinking of possibility that it could happen as it's said in the text, those people would pay required amount. I don't know if it is possible for some hacker to do such a thing but I like to believe that it is possible. As you said you don't have FB, messenger and from there you can see that it is template message that is sent randomly.

Bitcoin is available for everyone who has internet access. With regards to this, both legals and illegal activities can be done with bitcoin and other activities. This means as a bitcoin user, you need to be very vigilant so that poeple do not take advantage of you. You can lose a huge sum of money if you victimise yourself.

I looked up williehowell.com and it’s in Russia.  No surprise there.


46.161.42.91 IP address Information

The IP address 46.161.42.91 was found in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation. It is allocated to Petersburg Internet Network ltd., Petersburg Internet Network LLC. Additional IP location information, as well as network tools are available below.
IP address:   46.161.42.91
hostname:    mail.williehowell.com
ISP:    Petersburg Internet Network ltd.
Organization:    Petersburg Internet Network LLC
City:    Saint Petersburg
Region:    Saint Petersburg City
Country:    Russian Federation (RU) flag
Postal code:    190005
latitude:    59.8944
longitude:    30.2642

Already terrifying on what ideas the fraudsters come.
Have not received such a mail so far and have no webcam, but still good to know.
Apparently the cheaters always come up with something new.  :(

the guy must have collected some btc which triggers this  motivation of his. so he spam all those who he thought has done something in the porn sites. if you have done nothing, you shouldn't be worrying about that blackmail. i was surprise there are still users reading emails. if you are going to register to some sites you think isn't very important, use your alternative email which is intended for it.

This act is getting rampant due to the fact that BITCOIN  is gaining more and more attention everyday. Every now and then we should ready to receive these kinds of email. Wicked minds have a wide range of ideas to deceive people. Just put extra precautionary measures to identify those kinds of tricks.

Yes, it looks like a database leak or something like that. Don't send anything to him/her. Even if he/she got your video, I'm sure nobody will care. :)

Well, I got #5 of these dang emails.  It’s the same damn context, so I’m just posting pertinent info, such as his email addy and the Bitcoin address.  This one came from Panama.

NAMECHEAP INC
IANA ID: 1068
URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Whois Server: whois.namecheap.com

(p)
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Return-path: <info@ednawest.com>
Envelope-to: ***********************
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From: "Chris" <info>
Subject: ************************
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 12:23:56 -0700
Importance: normal
 
Bitcoin Address: 1GAHTd4Z8sQPbw3cwqwV398XRPod1k6nwt
(It is case sensitive, so copy and paste it)

I think I got 3 of these damn emails today alone.  I’m pretty sick of this and it looks like people have lost interest in this thread, but if someone wants to try and track this AH down, Bitcoin address is in tact.  It sounds like it would be very difficult, but it does not seem like it should be.

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        id 1fnd8Q-0007RK-OB
        for *****************; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 15:05:18 +1000
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       From: "Latisha" <info>
BTC Address: 1AYQWsWEQEPHtkKv2YGR8LJ3FfN5xMPb6S
(It is case sensitive, so copy and paste it)

There is a new blockchain service called white rabbit which will attempt to store the bad btc addresses such as those in the email. However, it will only be effective if the exchanges agree to block them from use

Be alert and do not let yourself be fooled. These are tricky ways to fool your account. Please delete such messages and do not click on any links :-\ :-\

Bitcoin using email as back up is a good one, which is applicable to blockchain.wallet info. And the email address has been used for security purposes for any point in time to login authorization.

I think it has happened a lot now that they are using people or investors who are panicking and not sure what they are investing if they believe I don't think you will be affected by the news

The increase in Bitcoin's cost and the increasing incidence of extortion by blackmail hackers who steal confidential data go hand in hand. This does not mean that bitcoin is to blame for something, but, obviously, cyber-currency has become one of the components of this problem - companies buy bitokines to protect against hacker attacks.

How deftly the scammers work. They think you can just get a password. Scammers in this case wanted to bring people to the emotions and make a person nervous that he began to do personal and illegal actions in a panic, went directly to the wallet on the link they offer, and at this moment they would have taken possession of it. Trick which were not many experienced users of the Internet.

Nowadays, most smart criminal action want bitcoin. They choosing bitcoin because bitcoin owner untraceable and people can transfer bitcoin to another with very fast without knowing who is transfered. But its not bitcoin fault because bitcoin is just a tool and peoples wrong to use it.

It is not the fault of bitcoin because criminals are human being like us just the difference is they use it for criminal activities and we use for good purpose.

This is a scam, don't click and reply to the mail, it is probably a robot!

When prices are dumped, many people panic so they cannot do analysis before acting, this is what makes bitcoin difficult to rise and continue to be dumped.

He never said he visited such websites
What's shameful in looking at a porn website, my dear untouchable?
Oh wait, just two years ago you were ready to buy porn with bitcoins...


What's up with the 180 view change on watching porn, did the account change hands?  ;D
Anyway, you're on the wrong forum if you want to start judging people!!!



It's just that this forum is also infested with newbies who don't know a thing but also your case is just....one in a million.

Those ip addresses and that bitcoin addresses will not get you far.
Most likely they use servers bought with stolen cards or even paid with bitcoin.
And now seriously, what if you find that this guy is X from Moscow? Are you going to fly to Moscow and wait for him around a corner with a baseball bat?

I know it is annoying to get those emails, probably sooner or later most people here will get one or two but the best way is to ignore them.
The only right way to get this guy would be to contact the police but not I doubt they will give it that much importance even if it could be classified as extortion.

yes, many people doing that and for money, many email send to you and that you click the email maybe you have a virus use for you to blackmail for mony.

Thanks for sharing your story. I'm sure that he doesn't have your video. I just wonder why that scammer didn't want money but required you to pay hush money in Bitcoin. we had better be alert with such emails. You're right when you were calm to judge the situation and didn't follow the fraudulent deal.

He just intimidated you into paying him hush money, That video doesn't exist because you say you don't have a webcam. He said he will send it to your 6 contacts. That was obviously a lie, 'cause you don't have Messenger, Outlook,etc. What was used to blackmail is not Bitcoin, but the inner fear of the receivers. The scammer just mentioned Bitcoin at the end of the email as a method of paying. So I think this is not a Bitcoin scam, but a regular scam.

Yes we heard many news that is use for blackmailing as the nature bitcoin negative people took the advantage
 of it and demanding ransom and did other activities.

It happens because people are free to use bitcoin as they want as a result criminals also take the opportunity and use bitcoin for this kind of bad activities.

It is a scam. Yeah we have already so many stories like you.
They are using bitcoin to blackmail people. It seems that there are so many individuals already know the nature of bitcoin. And they will use it in their crime just to earn somthing.

Very common language used by them. It is possible that they got your information from any ico or airdrop. Sit quite. They are scammers.

Don't fall for this type of blackmailing. There was a big hackers attack in Ukraine a while ago, almost all computers where blocked with the same kind of message, but the hackers did not recieve the money as far as I know.

Criminals r upgrading day by day.So we should be aware more than them then can be reduce this type of trap.IT khowledge should be able to cryptousers for escape this and btc users and authority should try to know how,when,where the criminal usually attempt.

Unfortunately you can use bitcoin in many ways, bad and good.. I knew many stories and i read every new day.. You can maake big tricks with crypto moneys if you want to. There are many uneducated and stupid people who enters the crypto business and they invest. If you don't know your wrok very well someone can scam you easly.. So first you understand the all system before you invest cryptos.

You can not succumb to such blackmail and provocation. We must not pay attention to this kind of stupidity.

Which is the first thing first, knowing everything around your investment is a must, people who are unsure about what they are taking should slow themselves entering this market, there's a lots of scammers who's waiting for their great opportunity and ready to take us down.

if the guy is bothered by this, it's pretty obvious he has been using the porn website :) They might have the contact from anywhere though, that is the truth. I am sure it's a bluff