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The recent ‘bomb threat’ spam campaign seems to be a subsidiary action to another disgraceful email blackmail effort. Organisations and institutions such as universities, news outlet, schools, businesses across the globe are facing fake bomb threats.

In the scam, the illicit sender copied several passwords from a for-sale item of stolen credentials and then mailed them to a particular target group saying that it had installed malware in their PCs. These victims were demanded to send money or else face compromising videos anonymously leaked. However, the videos were not existing in reality and even the malware was nowhere to be seen.

Read the details in the article of Coinidol dot com, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/bitcoin-bomb-fright-connected-with-sextortion-swindlers/

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Most online blackmail/ extortions work this way. They will keep the fake details as vague as possible making some dumb people believe in what they are trying to do. Unfortunately this kind of criminality works as a lot of people believe this. Some blackmail emails also go around saying that they have accessed your camera while you are visiting various porn sites and the same thing happens as they will end up for payment in exchange for something they really don't have. People must be aware that this kinds of threats exist in the internet so that they will have lesser victims as much as possible.

I think they might have gone too far with this latest strategy. It is one thing extorting some money out of some married wanker that are watching porn and wants to hide it from his wife, but it is a whole other story to make bomb threats.  :o

These kinds of actions will flag some attention from federal agencies like the FBI and NSA and the penalties for bomb threats are much higher than minor infringements like blackmailing porn surfers.  ::)

I think we might see some arrests sooner than we might think.  ;)

All the three lettered agencies will surely be involved with this especially the CIA which will consider this threat as terrorism. But I doubt they will take email threats like this seriously, I mean surely they are getting thousands of these kinds of email threats everyday to several states in the US and they won't see this vague email as a real threat. They would only consider this email as a way of a person on how they will extort money out of it but not a threat to the life of U.S. citizens.