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Hi,

I recently fell victim of a scam attempt and I thought I would let you all guys know. It is very well social-engineered, seems very credible and it really makes you think that maybe your computer was compromised and keylogged.

Basically they claim to have a keylogger installed on your system, to have hijacked the camera and have been able to hijack your screen - all while you - the victim - has been browsing porn sites.

Then I found a link on the internet and it seems that I was just one of many attempted victims:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/6txdm2/the_best_scam_email_ive_ever_seen/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/6v2ji9/a_little_blackmail_email_in_my_inbox_this_morning/

The attacker wants some money (ranging from 300 to 350 USD in Bitcoin) sent to some Bitcoin addresses they provide.

Hope you are all well and didn't fall victims!

Didnt received that kind of email. And thanks for the information. People nowadays (those scammer) are really have a lot of resources just to scam other people. This is very alarming due to the massive effect of to the bitcoin community. They assume if they have a lot of bitcoun they are going to be rich. But they didnt think of the possible outcome of it. Like as of now, bitcoin is slowley declining its price. So no one really a sure winner.

Well, I investigated some more. To add credibility, it seems that attackers devised a new (improved, if I may use that word in this context) version of this scam email that provides a web service that a person recently used together with that person's leaked password. It may be restricted only to UK-based victims and services, but I am not sure.

To anybody who may have received such an email: it is simply a leaked passwords from a web service, not a credible verification that they keylogged your system! But change that password immediately.

Source: https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/attempted-blackmail-scam-watching-porn/

The community has got so much scammers. I haven't got such mails yet. But, I should be more concerned regarding this.

Since we are moving to the digital future of payments we will be expecting a lot of more hacking incidents and scams in crypto space. The best thing that we should do is be very careful and vigilant in reporting such acts to at least lessen cyber crimes. If you happen to know someone that is doing phishing, scam schemes or even hacking hobbies then please do report it to the authority. We may not be hacked or victimized by those scam schemes but we don't know in the near future with the development of new hacking tools, everything is possible with just a simple click of a link or even here in the forum.

Those people who makes effort just to steal other peoples money are the poison in this world, they only want one time bigtime move just to get big money than to make an effort to their selves to earn in a good way. Those people will sacrifice their lives and dignity just to stole other people's money.

LOL it is very easy to scam some peoples with this kind of scam. Just by knowing some emails of the victims, and you are set.
In this modern age, if you are not smart enough in your life, you can getting scammed by other peoples easily.

Thank you for sharing this information, I believe we should join forces to repel the evil forces that are looking for ways to take over our account. And I hope those who are doing this stop.

 ;D haa haa

If I am doing something wrong; the  fear is natural.  Definitely I will not want that my known people shall come to know that I watch such movies.  Though in today's age most of the people watch this may be some people have watched hundrerds of times and other watching twice or thrice in their life. 
But no one wants to create his image as such movie watcher in the eyes of relatives.

My conclusion is watching these movies is just mental sickness nothing else.

Cheaters are inventing latest modes how to cheat people.  So we must be careful all the time.  May be the cheater got your mail id from some public forum and then targetted you to cheat.

thanks for sharing so useful information with us. I think that only the original btc is worth attention and trust. it is the most powerful one and it will be used for many years since now

Thank You for sharing this experience and hope this will make many aware of such scams. This is really scary. Please be careful people.

You need to careful when you receive these types of email. It is alarming for the bitcoin industry. Because anyone loss their money for scam. For this reason i think bitcoins price fall down.

Thank you for this information. I will also inform my friend regarding this because she said she has been scammed too. This case might be similar to hers.

Now scammers are increasing day by day and they are finding new ways to scams peoples but i am not get this kind of email and but thainks for the share i will be more aware about this kind of hacking. Before i was also victim of one scam i entered my ID and password in clone website of my exchange but with 2FA security my bitcoin was safe always bookmark Ur important website.

      Hi
 
     i almost fell victim of this act early this  month of july. I got a mail congratulating me that i just got some token in my wallet that i should open the link sent to my via my mail box  to activate my verification so as to get an immediate alert into my local account which i did though i was curious to know and see the end result so i logged into the link i saw the form and behold it was the nefarious work of scammers i laughed because they are so stupid that they think i would fall such victim of their tricks. in the content of the form they demanded for my wallet key and my wallet address so as to facilitate the transfer but i didnt send any to them. please we should all  be at alert as they are every where to scam and hack accounts to steal.

Well...as at now, i haven't receive such email but i still feel for the victims of such. I can't imagine how much $ those guys must have stolen
Watch out guys!!!

This is really frustrating it is related with phishing attack based on this my suggestion is do not open this types of emails because it is a one of the step of hack based on this you should aware of this types of activities.

As the community keeps growing, the scam has also been increasing and the way they do it, it now doesn't even seem suspicious. For me, I always try to be extra cautious and I change my password regularly, and also it's good to get involved with only verified sites, that keeps one away from scams more. I really appreciate your efforts how you took the time to inform everyone about this, spreading awareness, thank you for writing this post.

My friend almost got caught up in the same fraud. Do not be fooled by free money and all that, then you will never be deceived in such a way.

People always find a new way to make fraud. Scammer is everywhere. We all have to be carefull all the time.

ABP - Always Be Paranoid

Scammers should have come a new Idea or else they starve.. when you look about it, it doesn't make sense that they hijacked your camera then recorded your private key via screen shot.  that's so hilarious men.. I mean, how could people fall for that?

It is better to not respond to such mails, if it looks suspicious. One more thing to do in order to remain on the safer side, it to change the password as soon as possible. And make sure that your password does not get within the grasp of anyone else.

Such spammed emails are better to avoid. Since this looks a relatively new scamming method, the people are not yet familiar with it. It would be better if they have been made alert first. The first step is to not to open it, and to change the password quickly.

Thats right! Unfamiliar emails coming from a total strangers wouldnt be entertained, thats the basic step how to avoid being scammed or hacked. We are all responsible of our own actions. These scammers will stop their activities if a lot of people are being cautious and more careful with the suspicious activity that looks very enticing and totally avoid them. I really appreciate the people who posts new kind of scamming schemes for everyone to be aware of. Good job to the OP.

Thanks for the reminder mate. Email type of scams even phishing has been rampant lately. If you are not smart enough to distinguish whether an email or a certain site is a fraud, you might be easily lost your wealth in an instant in this modern world. This is one of most important thing you should always take note if you invest in cryptocurrency that is alertness in every hacking attempts to your wallets. If you found out something suspicious about a site or e-mail, dont ever attempt to open and entertain it.

thank you for notices and warnings about bitcoin thieves you are experiencing, and I will also be more careful in maintaining email and bitcoin I have, honestly this news is very useful for me.

Thanks for the tip. I should be more aware of ambiguous sites...

Totally agree. Crypto is an area where being paranoid pays ;)

I did not receive such emails. I think you used it to sign up for some bad sites and accidentally created the opportunity for hackers to break into your account.
Now you should switch wallets and email conversions quickly to avoid the worst case happening. When they have enough information, they can steal all your data.

No, the thing is I DID NOT log into any bad sites, but nevertheless the email was so well psychology-engineered that I started to be paranoid that my system has been key-logged nevertheless and, yes, truth be told I started to mentally review the things I may have done in front of the camera of the running computer.

The thing with those scams is that they started as stupid "I am a widow of the late one-eyed Willy pirate and I have that treasure to share with you", but now they have evolved and the most recent scam emails are really really believable. That is the problem.

Didn't experience or encounter any email of this sort, but thank you alot for your informative insight.

I also don't have received any link from email if any kinds of email from someone that you didn't know it's better to be careful do not just click any link because it might be possible that is dangerous.

Yes nowadays Bitcoin and crypto related scams are growing with a lightning speed and because of this even I have lost $50 a few weeks back and this was with an ETH token related airdrop program. Actually, I got an email regarding the self-drop of a crypto token where i was told that if you buy the tokens then you will get a 100% free bonus tokens in addition to your quantity of tokens and here the fault was mine and I didn't really do full research before sending the payment and afterwards I ended up losing my $50 and I was really angry with myself for making such a big careless mistake.

So far there has been no report of someone getting hacked by these mails, however, it is wise to take extra measures to secure your account because the market is growing and so is crypto's price.

Thank you very much for alerting. These types of scams are spreading all over the internet now. Everyone should be real cautious about it.

Such an immature form of scam but surprisingly, many fall victim of this. It’s obviously just a bluff but people who get too engrossed in their fear fail to think rationally and all their wits go out the door all of a sudden. Why should it matter if your screen has been hijacked while you were browsing porn sites. It’s definitely a privacy violation but i don’t find it as a threat. I’m guessing that no proof to show that you have been hijacked can be shown by these scammers so why waste a single cent on them?

I received dozens of emails that were clearly fraudulent, but I ignored them.
I'm sure they'll get tired of themselves.  :D

Thank you for providing this information. Avoid filling out personal information when you receive an unclear message. Be careful and keep it safe and secure because you can be attacked by hackers. I'll tell my friends about this.

Really appreciate your effort to let everyone know of the possible danger of falling prey to any of these multiple scams that are surfing throughout the web.

Thanks for letting us know. I haven’t received this type of email yet. Online scams are increasing nowadays. It is really irritating. The online world is really promising and these scams are making it polluted.

This is not the first times that hackers want bitcoins. They think that bitcoin will change their future as if it is too easy to survive in this crypto world. Without passion it is really hard to survive.

Thanks for sharing that I think one of the greatest roles of our community is to share those things and by doing that we can help each other to stay in work carefully and sober facing another scam attempt.

He could take that money and spend on an English course lol

Like most of the other industries, now the scammers are attempting to exploit the crypto-market through this kind of fraudulent activities. people who access the vulnerable website must take precautions to get themselves protected by knowing the impact of these threats. Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience.

Thanks for sharing the information on time. I did not receive this kind of mail but there are so many other well packaged means of scam. We just have to be careful. They have access to people's contacts easily and can attempt to scam you based on any trending development which you subscribed to.

Thank you for such important and valuable information , I am sure thanks to your message, many will be much more attentive to their messages and will be afraid of this type of fraud .

I never face that situation and never got that kind of email. I hope that I don't get the email and face that situation. Nowadays, some people are trying to get our money. So we should be more careful when using and click something which comes from the internet.

Just unfortunate. People got consumed of greet just always looking for ways to get money from anyone else.

I think if new technology give us happiness & joyful life in now a days.whereas also heart to us create many problems. always we should be careful.

What the heck!!! I can't believe this, people are ready to do with for some bucks lol what! Blackmailing is the worst crime ever, I hope one day these people get caught and punished this is ruthless.

At present, Bitcoin has a lot of scam. People are facing losses by accepting scam. These scam should not be received by email. You have to be careful to keep yourself secured.

Well I haven't received exact kind of mail but I do receive that of which request me to go to the supposed myetherwallet and input my private key. This comes in regularly especially the one posing to come from hydro verification. As much as the bitcoin markets is real and price is increasing now, a lot of fraudulent means will alos be cropping up to steal away peoples bitcoin. Thank you for the awareness here and hope those who need it will be here to learn too.

I think we need to be more careful, due to the high demand and popularity bitcoin is used by others foe scamming so we need to learn more about bitcoin and the way on how to used it to avoid being victimized by some other who didn't work in a fair way. We all know that there are so many people around that is really becoming greedy and doing such bad thing for themself.

Firstly so sad for you. We all know scam or hacked is one of the serious problem in cryptocurrency market. we all have to aware on scam.

I fell like this is the fault of the users as much as the hacker, the hacker for scamming people and the user for not knowing exactly what to do, I feel like the average user who uses computer everyday for various things, should be able to know better than falling to these easy tricks that hackers use these days, if you really know what you are doing and you don't click suspicious sites you will never fall to these tricks, and you can even go the extra mile and learn how these kind of hacking works, because it takes a hacker to beat one.

Don't fall for those phishing links that will be sent to you via email or even in DM because for me, the opportunity will not get close to you because you are the one who will get close to the opportunities out there and if there is someone that is sending email to you and you got interested then try to do some research first to clarify things out if it is real or not.

Some hackers scam us by creating new links and they suggest we click on that link so they steal their information and security to steal what our value

Great to have you sharing here those things, I like myself that I don't have big amount of money on my wallet to get hacked or scam that way, recently one guy wanted to steal 0.3 ETH from me, but I cant afford that because of withdrawals, lol.

They are really very resourceful and sometimes I think that this scammers are really that intelligent but unfortunately they chooses to used that God given talent to commit crimes. Because they know how to exploit the weaknesses of most individuals that most of the time they give in and paid those ransoms. I don't know, but if I got that kind of email, I would simply ignore it because I know that I'm not browsing porn sites, LOL, and I'm very careful as to what webpages I'm going through. Just stay safe though, maybe they will pull another variants of that scam and hope that you no one will feel for those scammers/extortionist.

I didn't received this kinds message any more. But I think it is very important for everyone to know about scam attempt. Thank you very much for your information sharing.

Personally, I get many spam messages every day and sometimes by mistake open some of them. Thanks for concerning us your views. Really nowadays there are many hackers who are ready with a various amount of resources and items with which they can easily hack you. We all need to be very concern as BTC is hotcake and the computer can be hacked any time.

wow is that real? I think we should make our computer is more secure by using an antivirus and malware security, but how the hackers get the administrator permission? is it hard to get administrator permission from the internet?

Ha ha it would be so great but I doubt it, as long as there are people who still fall victim. Unfortunately it requires only a few victims to render the whole scheme (and millions of sent out emails) worthwhile.

Yes I also received some scam emails specially in terms of airdrops like click this link and get free airdrop.
When you click on that link you will become victim of phishing scam. 

Also when doing 'important' transactions 'especially wireless' you should be running a VPN. I like ExperessVPN.
This is yet another layer of protection.
I run Kaspersky which has a nice anti-keylogger and Malwarebytes.

I never open email that consists and links. If I don't know from home I get this letter I will delete it immediately. In real time there are many scam.

I feel like the average user who uses computer everyday for various things, should be able to know better than falling to these easy tricks that hackers use these days, if you really know what you are doing and you don't click suspicious sites.

I can’t believe people still fall on this. If you own cryptos you obviously have same basic knowledge so you should know better.

truth is sometimes i do receive lots of scam messages and these scamers have lots of ways to go about, it looks like they'v got a forum were they come together and share ideas on how to go about there own work or something, some times their messages gets really interesting and you give so much audience to it next thing u know after involving it's a scam. nearly lost an ETH wallet due to a scam.

It’s very helpful when scamming-victims are posting about their experiences through this forum. Thank you for sharing what happened to you. Anyway, let’s all be careful next time and think thrice about these things. Try to observe and reaearch first if possible.

Yes people do fall victims of all kinds of spams all the time and this is why I posted (to be exact, I was a victim of a spam attempt, not of a spam, luckily).
Thank you for righting that.

I invested in one ICO and scammers tried to deceive me so many times. They are not very smart btw  ;D When payouts started, they even sent token holders the emails where "real investors" told that they are disappointed with this ICO and recommended another one, which turned out to be scam. Be careful, guys!

you need to follow the basic rules of security in the network, and then you will not overtake these problems