I got this email

[toptek]

You can be hacked

We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges.
We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time.
We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data.

The amount we require is 0.01BTC

Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh

Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds.

After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database.

IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ...

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[Immakillya]

Yeah, its definitely a form of blackmail. But what the hell? They should have hacked your funds if they got your important details. Don't get fooled by these assholes. Especially when you don't even funds stored on a exchange.😆
I never seen any email like this before. It looks stupid. They've send you an email just to extort money from you. If they are really professional hackers. They can just break in to your wallet and steal all your funds without any bullshits like this.

We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time.

Yeah right. These are professional hackers😄

[CyberKuro]

LoL, they are very very pro hackers
Since you keep all bitcoins offline, nothing to worry about. If they really have skills, no need to warn people as a threat of hackers is real problem everyday.
in that case; everyone has to be careful and cautious of every detail that may lead to a leak and get hacked.
But, even if you save bitcoin in web wallet (not in exchanges), it seems impossible for someone to brute force, access the wallet without knowing the password.
There are some people who forgot their passwords and willing to share bitcoin if someone could access their wallet by try to crack the password, but no one can do that.

[MartinTheWanderer]

I got the same nonsense. They are just spamming harvested email databases, randomly.

Looking at blockchain explorer it seems people have wisened up to this sort of extortion scam.
Zero activity on that address.   

Make sure though to report the Gmail address that they provide as contact address (not the hacked random email account they were sending from) to Gmails abuse team - usually those accounts go down a few hours later.

Law enforcement is too busy hunting file sharers and protecting pedo-politicians, so... nothing much more to do.

If you do however run into a spammer/scammer/extortionist IRL: don't waste a bullet. Just beat them bloody and remove their microscopic haXX0r-balls.

[CryptoBry]

You can be hacked

We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges.
We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time.
We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data. The amount we require is 0.01BTC Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds.

After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database.

IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ...

Of course, that is a type of blackmailing but I think more than that it is actually just spamming. meaning they are sending the same message to all the email address they can harvest anywhere. And who knows there can be some who might panic and will give them the 'ransom' payment they are demanding. As for us in this forum, we will just laugh at those messages though we are ,of course, taking security seriously as getting hacked and phished is not an easy experience.

As Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are right now surging in price, more and more scammers, hackers, phishers and all the evil people are getting interested to venture into victimizing people out of their kept coins. This is just the start actually since there are still newbies who can easily be tricked into their traps. We have to be very, very careful!

[Netnox]

Just ignore these sort of mails. It shows that the sender is unable to hack in to your wallet and is desperately trying to extort money from you. But at the same time, it is worrying that he came to know that you are holding Bitcoins. I would request you to immediately increase the security of your wallet, by adding 2FA.

[MartinTheWanderer]

Just ignore these sort of mails. It shows that the sender is unable to hack in to your wallet and is desperately trying to extort money from you. But at the same time, it is worrying that he came to know that you are holding Bitcoins. I would request you to immediately increase the security of your wallet, by adding 2FA.

They are actually just spamming harvested addresses from spam-mail databases.

They know NOTHING, these disgusting fake-hacker tards.

The email where I received that threat is one that I never used on any exchange/webwallet etc.   

[matuson]

This is not blackmail. It's child's play. What a clever person will send them money? Lol. These letters anyone can write in the hope that someone will be scared. Can not be afraid. They will not be able to bypass the 2 factor authentication. They break the accounts only when the owner is helping them.

[aleistermarley]

Could be that they have access to the Bitfinex user database   

That is the only exchange i am registered with the exact mail address they sent to.
I received that mail just a few hours after i registered at Bitfinex.
 

[MartinTheWanderer]

Could be that they have access to the Bitfinex user database   

That is the only exchange i am registered with the exact mail address they sent to.
I received that mail just a few hours after i registered at Bitfinex.
 

coindidence, likely.

They have been spamming this nonsense for several days now, and to a lot of completely unrelated addresses that never were used on any exchange.

They are spammers, not hackers.

[Taki]

They must be took your e-mail from some crypto oriented site and sent this letter to everyone, I would call it as basic letter. Of course they don't know that your wallets are good protected and they just have no chance to hack your comp, but just imagine those people who believed to this letter, believe me there are many a little bit silly users who can take this blackmail as the truly one and I don't doubt there will be people who will send 0,01BTC to that guy. Even if he sent it to 1000 people there is going to be at least 10 who will believe it and in scare will follow the instruction and the blackmailer will get 0,1 BTC and it is not little money at all!

[carlfebz2]

You can be hacked

We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges.
We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time.
We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data.

The amount we require is 0.01BTC

Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh

Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds.

After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database.

IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ...

If they can hack accounts then they wont really bother to send and email to those users and asking 0.01 btc which turns out this crap email is just an another cheap and obvious scam attempt and for those newbies that do easily believe will surely panic and might give but as you said you are not using any exchanges then they are just purely lying into you. I haven't still receive this email but if I have receive this then they will surely get some nasty replies from me.  

[btc-facebook]

Better for now spread out your email detail into nowhere since bitcoin is getting expensive, people will do anything to earn it even though they have to attempt in bad way (ex blackmail,ransom,etc )

As long as you don't panic,  do not worry !

[MartinTheWanderer]

definitely just spam, I cross-checked with Reddit, Twitter, etc. - they spammed a stolen/purchased address database, many of the addresses had never been used for anything crypto-related...

They also have zero results so far. Good.


https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/address/1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh/

[SM23031997]

IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ...

I know they are unable to hack into the system and that is why they are trying to blackmail. Although, I won't take this warning seriously at the same time change my password from all the places just to make sure I won't get 2FA email on my email ID on regular basis in case if he sells any database he owns.

[darkangel11]

definitely just spam, I cross-checked with Reddit, Twitter, etc. - they spammed a stolen/purchased address database, many of the addresses had never been used for anything crypto-related...

They also have zero results so far. Good.


https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/address/1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh/

Eventually they will. There are some dumb people out there and it's just a matter of time before this email finds the right person. I just wish they paid good money for that database and will never make it back. The only thing somebody who knows your email address can do is try to hack that mailbox and pray that they can find emails from an exchange like login notifications in there.

Word of advice: always keep your mailbox clean and delete all confirmation links after use because they may contain your client number and other details. You never know when someone will try to bruteforce your password.

[TheBarMan]

You can be hacked

We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges.
We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time.
We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data.

The amount we require is 0.01BTC

Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh

Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds.

After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database.

IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ...

change bitcoins to a new wallet and create new keys in the old, so finally get it back and ignore this stupids...

Good day man.

[jossiel]

Ha.ha.ha this gave me a good laugh. Since you know what you are doing for not keeping your money on exchanges, you can answer this if this is a blackmail or not.

They are real hackers though, trying to beg through email and they are being nice by asking you to send to their bitcoin wallet address.

Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds.

This is a very big LOL!! 

[audaciousbeing]

You can be hacked

We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges.
We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time.
We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data.

The amount we require is 0.01BTC

Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh

Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds.

After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database.

IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ...

You really don't need any special knowledge tonkniw this is not even a blackmail but a cheap one and a general message sent randomly to people. Its the same format you see people send to your mail address claiming your bank details has been block but unfortunately for them, you don't even have a bank account in the bank they are claiming.

Aside the above, I have not seen a situation where hackers will notify you of their intended heist, rather they would finish then ask for ransom.

[jaylhynne018]

You can be hacked

We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges.
We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time.
We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data.

The amount we require is 0.01BTC

Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh

Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds.

After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database.

IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ...

oh my god  it is only a blackmail so dont be scared if they have your important details dont expect it already if they hack your account just fight them dont be afraid for that fuckers hackers they dont have want to something to do so they tripping  you dont believe them!