Crypto Extortion Attempt

[Keyser21]

Crypto Extortion Attempt

All users please be wary of the following extortion activities being attempted by this individual:
Clayborn Stubson   <kivberyleyl@outlook.com>

uses crypto address - 1LdVsxHTqGuN2vdKMk4YiUDKchR4cmwQ for deposits obtained from his unwitting victims.

He sends you an e-mail with a grouping of image.png snippings in which he claims to have been monitoring your digital activity on your computer, including any Facebook and smartphone communications for a designated lengthy period of time, and he then threatens to expose all activities through various forums, regardless of their nature.

He demands that $2,000 USD in Bitcoin (BTC) be deposited into the detailed account within 24 hours otherwise he will post all information through several different forums and other outlets.

This person has been reported to the FBI Chicago branch office - Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) as well as other Federal agencies.

Please do not use the crypto address provided above for any illegal activities (like hacking it and draining the account) as that would not be nice, although very well-deserved.

[passwordnow]

This is a scam. Don't send any amount with these kinds of email. If you are guilty and scared, you'll definitely send the amount that they're asking because you feel that they have actually tracked you down and they can see what you are doing.
This is fake, there will be other emails that will try to extort you for the same reason so don't be fooled.

[covfefe_]

There are many such scams that try to blackmail gullible users for sending them coins. I had a similar email with a different email address that said they have a webcam footage of me masturbating in front of my laptop. I knew it as a scam at once as I don't use laptop for porn and masturbation.
They use a lot of email IDs mostly with fake credential and there's not much to do as they comes from countries that have scam as an industry.

[restuibu]

sometimes I also laugh to myself when someone sends me an email and says if I have traces of my activities. deceptive way like this only for small children

[coin-investor]

It's a scam I also received similar emails they are demanding a huge amount or they will be exposed me masturbating in front of a computer while watching porn which I never did because I never watch a porn, I just ignore all of their demand unless they can show me proof that I really did.

[MUG1WARA]

never trust anything if there is no evidence, let alone those who ask for money from you ... cases like this have been very frequent and those who are afraid will be immediately deceived by similar cases

[Kotone]

This person has been reported to the FBI Chicago branch office - Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) as well as other Federal agencies.

Please do not use the crypto address provided above for any illegal activities (like hacking it and draining the account) as that would not be nice, although very well-deserved.

How about his identity? Is it proven to be him? Cause maybe he is framing up someone using other's name instead. Its better if you can post a warning on Beginners and help section or scam acccusation thread. Good that you share this with us so everyone who have same email from this guy has been alerted that its a scam trick.

Never trust any emails and dont click some of them are pishing site that been set up to steal our funds.

[Anarchy101]

I received a quite similar email some time back and I did nothing except deleting the email and reporting it as spam. It's just them using fear as a factor to extort money from their victims.

[Dariusburst]

As a crypto investors you need to stay away from mails from unknown sources, it won't hurt you if you ignore mails in your email, don't even bother to open them since you aren't expecting the mails.

And again those who send money to people don't know what they are doing, honestly this shouldn't be happening, I expect people to be more smarter this days, anyone who ask for money are no doubt scammers

[Rodeo02]

As long as you are not doing any illegal jobs online there is nothing to fear with this extortion.

Who cares for the crypto currency you earn online , even how long they are watching you as long as you are doing it in legal  way you don't need to be afraid and  don't pay them for what he is demanding.

[Vitalicus]

I received a quite similar email some time back and I did nothing except deleting the email and reporting it as spam. It's just them using fear as a factor to extort money from their victims.

True! For junk mails that I didn't expect to receive, I just delete it. I have received a lot of good offers through emails. However, you know it, it's just too good to be true! Sometime I was affected by the fear of missing out, I read those emails, but then I realized there is nothing such as easy as they said!

[Reid]

How do these people attack?
I think that is the most important thing we should talk about instead of just an agreement that it is a scam address.

Maybe we could provide warnings to other members so that they could keep themselves safe from these attacks.
How are they hoarding e-mails?
How do they know the e-mail owner does own cryptocurrencies?
Where do they get it or is it just random?
Should we now hide our e-mails to protect ourselves?

[cryptogeek101]

Crypto Extortion Attempt

All users please be wary of the following extortion activities being attempted by this individual:
Clayborn Stubson   <kivberyleyl@outlook.com>

uses crypto address - 1LdVsxHTqGuN2vdKMk4YiUDKchR4cmwQ for deposits obtained from his unwitting victims.

He sends you an e-mail with a grouping of image.png snippings in which he claims to have been monitoring your digital activity on your computer, including any Facebook and smartphone communications for a designated lengthy period of time, and he then threatens to expose all activities through various forums, regardless of their nature.

He demands that $2,000 USD in Bitcoin (BTC) be deposited into the detailed account within 24 hours otherwise he will post all information through several different forums and other outlets.

This person has been reported to the FBI Chicago branch office - Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) as well as other Federal agencies.

Please do not use the crypto address provided above for any illegal activities (like hacking it and draining the account) as that would not be nice, although very well-deserved.

It's very unfortunate we have these kind of individuals in the crypto space however you have to be wary of such persons because if you are not careful you will put yourself in a big mess. Thankgod the security agent like FBI will take care of him

[asajapheth]

That is a fraudster. It is best you ignore. I found a mail similar to that in my spam folder sometime last year. I was glad Google already figured out that it is from a spammer. Try not to click on any link within the mail.

[Jawhead999]

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Probably they know your email because you sign up on website related about cryptocurrency (e.g. wallet, exchange, casino). It's why we should separate our personal email and thrown away/temporary email. If you want to sign up on suspicious website, I suggest you to use temporary email (e.g. yopmail).

This is an old school scam, if they ask to sent any amount money, all you need is ignore it. No need to trust an unknown email and check carefully the url. Most of them is share phishing sites.

[blue_hurricanger]

Can't say this is a scam. If somebody comes and threatens me to give him money or else he will report me to the police, report for what crime? I have nothing to scare because I'm clean so his trick is useless. Why anyone gives a sh*t if they are normal honest people?

[Jating]

As others have said, do not fall for this trick, this is an old and rehearse way to extort crypto enthusiast of their bitcoin. I don't know how you get that message though, but it looks like your email has been leaked already so I will advise you to change email asap specially if you are using this for all of your crypto activity.

If you wanted to check if your email is already compromised, I will advise you to go here:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

[leea-1334]

I know it is easy to assume these are all scams but the problem of why victims do give in is because they have this natural nagging feeling that What if he's right? So to allay these fears, simply ask him: send me one proof of a picture of what you have on me and I will send you the ransom.

This also will help police as he could forget and send you a pic or screenshot with his digital stamp on it;)

[memed97]

never trust anything if there is no evidence, let alone those who ask for money from you ... cases like this have been very frequent and those who are afraid will be immediately deceived by similar cases

Yes, if the evidence is not there what should we be afraid of, anyways that ordinary fraudsters can only bully everyone via email and other social media accounts, even though he himself does not know anything about us.

[aemma]

This is nothing but a cheap scam attempt therefore just ignore it. I have seen people complaining of such emails and for the fact it is in their spam folder means it should be ignored or in fact deleted. One thing to understand is that, scammers are everywhere and they will continue utilizing every opportunity they see to scam and defraud innocent people, thus one needs to be wise in all aspects. Lastly, thanks for bringing the information here so that those who are not much informed can be aware of such scam or extortion attempt.