Another scam email attempt

[LTU_btc]

Today I was checking spam folder in one of my emails. Not the main one. I use this email address on low importance sign ups where I don't trust that website that much to use my main email. And I found maybe 40 messages send by same person between 12th and 21th of March. Here is full message that I got (removed password and BTC address from it:

Hi, today there are sadly some bad news for you.

Your device was infected with my private malware, your browser wasn't updated / patched, in such case it's enough to just visit some website where my iframe is placed to get automatically infected, if you want to find out more, Google: Drive-by exploit.

My malware gave me full access to all your accounts, full control over your device and it also was possible to spy on you over your cam.

If you think this is some bad joke, no, I know your password: *******

I collected all your private data and I RECORDED YOU (through your cam) SATISFYING YOURSELF!

After that I removed my malware to not leave any traces and this email was sent from some hacked server.

I can publish the video of you and all your private data on the whole web, social networks, over email and send everything to all your contacts.

But you can stop me and only I can help you out in this situation.

The only way to stop me, is to pay exactly 900$ in Bitcoin (BTC).

It's a very good offer, compared to all that horrible shit that will happen if I publish everything.

You can easily buy Bitcoin (BTC) here: www.paxful.com , www.coingate.com , www.coinbase.com , or check for Bitcoin (BTC) ATM near you, or Google for other exchanger.

You can send the Bitcoin (BTC) directly to my wallet, or install the free software: Atomicwallet, or: Exodus wallet, then receive and send to mine.

My Bitcoin (BTC) wallet is: ***************

Yes, that's how the wallet / address looks like, copy and paste it, it's (cAsE-sEnSEtiVE).

I give you 3 days time to pay.

After receiving the payment, I will remove everything and you can life your live in peace like before, don't worry, I keep my promise.

Next time make sure that your device got the newsest security updates.

ClientMailID: 6993041

Usually I don't pay attention to such messages, but there is one interesting moment - in few of his message he wrote one password that I really used in some not important websites. In other his messages he wrote password which looks similar to that one, but I haven't used such one. And in few other messages he just wrote some random passwords made from my email address.
There is one thing that made me sceptical about him - he wrote that he recorded me satisfying myself with my camera. But there is one thing - there is no camera in front of my PC, so, even if would did what he wrote, there is no chance for him to record it . Also, he said that my browser wasn't updated, but I always use newest version of browsers. Finally, he gave me 3 days, but few weeks already passed since I got these messages and nothing didn't happened. I also didn't noticed any strange attempts to login to any of my accounts recently.
It looks like a bit more sophisticated scam attempt. maybe it's really possible that he got my password from one of websites where I used. For example it can be some IPTV providers or Bitcoin faucets which I used many years ago and who sold their database.
I'm not concerned that much because on all websites that really matters I use different and strong websites and 2FA enabled. But I advise for everyone to take safety seriously. Use 2FA, make strong and different website for every website. Don't use your main email address for low importance sign-ups. And don't fall into such scams.

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[Saisher]

I also received a similar email I thought that the sender made a wrong sent, like you I never use a camera on my desktop so how he can possibly do a screenshot or even record this a random message in a hope that he can victimize those who suits up to his descriptions and allegations, but one thing never reply to that email or he will get the impression that you are reading all of your emails and he will have a clue on what kind of a person you are and he will devise a plan to victimize you next time he sent an email.

[Sandra_hakeem]

Since when did emails begin coming with some sort of a threat?? It sounds more like that junk-head was tryna impose the fact that you have to be ripped and that's it ...lol.
I repeat, no matter how bugging it might look, -- as long as any malware doesn't have access to my device ..(even if it does), I can't follow them unnecessary instructions. Everything you see on the net wants to hurt you... Yeah!! It's ain't real until you've sent those worth of BTC and nothing shows up anymore. One thing I'm always amazed about is the fact that them hackers ain't even relenting.... BEWARE!

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

I also read a similar story on this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5447262.msg62021687#msg62021687 he said his friend got scammed just through email too. Scammers try to use some sophisticated trick these days that most individuals fall victim to; some times the scam may seem so real that if one is not very careful, they could fall victim. which we cannot blame them most times but instead comfort them. If not for someone who is more exposed to cryptocurrency like you are, you may have fallen victim too or perhaps not. People should simply trade with safety more because scammers are always looking for someone to Scam.

[drwhobox]

LOL  that guy is trying hard to scam you. I think he bought the data from a website where you used your information to register, and now he is trying his luck. I think this is kind of a unique system of email scam attempts. The way this email is written it is very engaging. I have finished the mail from start to finish.

I don't get any emails like this, and maybe it is time to check my spam box to look for some well-written scam scripts.

[UchihaSarada]

You can check potential of your email pwned compromise and abandon it or change its password to a new unique and stronger password.

[Guide] How to know if your email address was part of any data breach.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/

[blue Snow]

I also often get the same email same as you and the sender makes an offer to click a link or document attached.

But I believe this a scam and immediately delete it, also marking this kind of email as spam.
I often the same way, but again I don't know why they still can tuck it into the main inbox and always appears on the notification.

the new user or newbie should be careful because the email registered on an exchange or any kind of crypto will get the same as this.

[Lucius]

@LTU_btc, have you perhaps checked the BTC address that was sent to you to pay the ransom for your alleged sins? It's already an old trick, but I'm really interested to see if scammers get away with it these days, even though I know that sometimes they send payments to themselves in order to convince potential victims that others are also paying.

In addition to the fact that such messages should be reported as spam, it would be good to report BTC addresses to some of the sites that collect exactly such addresses associated with various BTC scams - maybe someone will check the address and see that the whole story is fake.

[Nwada001]

The hacker failed with his imagination and calculation, thinking all average PCs make use of a webcam, which he can use to manipulate the victim's mind by showing him/her rough videos of him/her.

Every day by day, we keep on seeing new forms of scams. These scammers can never get tired or even look for something else to do rather than mapping out a new scamming strategy every single day. Although this form of scam is not new to me,
The more we are getting smarter and avoiding all these scammers, the more they are improving their method of attack and attempt. They seem to not know the word "giving up."

[Orpichukwu]

@LTU_btc, have you perhaps checked the BTC address that was sent to you to pay the ransom for your alleged sins? It's already an old trick, but I'm really interested to see if scammers get away with it these days, even though I know that sometimes they send payments to themselves in order to convince potential victims that others are also paying.

You really have a point here, but at the same time I don't also think their is any point in doing that, since the hacker/scammer can easily can easily just send fund to its own wallet like you said to make convince it's victims that other actually pay. At the same time they can actually generate single address for each of their victims in other to protect their privacy.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Today I was checking spam folder.....

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Spam-and-Scams/Question1669132.html

These letters have been sent out since 2019. Just check the link and take a look at the date.
Therefore, you should not associate yourself with this unfortunate hacker at all.
Your mail was indeed included in the spam mailing list, and it is from this that such letters will be sent to you.
To protect yourself and your nerves, try not to subscribe with your email address to any garbage.

[LTU_btc]

@LTU_btc, have you perhaps checked the BTC address that was sent to you to pay the ransom for your alleged sins? It's already an old trick, but I'm really interested to see if scammers get away with it these days, even though I know that sometimes they send payments to themselves in order to convince potential victims that others are also paying.

In addition to the fact that such messages should be reported as spam, it would be good to report BTC addresses to some of the sites that collect exactly such addresses associated with various BTC scams - maybe someone will check the address and see that the whole story is fake.

Initially I haven't checked his address because I thought that he would make new address for each potential victim. Now I looked into it - now it's empty, but it received in total over 0.024 BTC in 2 transactions.
Where exactly I can report this address? I saw similar kind of websites, but now I don't remember their names.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Spam-and-Scams/Question1669132.html

These letters have been sent out since 2019. Just check the link and take a look at the date.
Therefore, you should not associate yourself with this unfortunate hacker at all.
Your mail was indeed included in the spam mailing list, and it is from this that such letters will be sent to you.
To protect yourself and your nerves, try not to subscribe with your email address to any garbage.

Thanks. It's new stuff for me. Indeed, that email address got into spam mailing list few years ago. Probably it would be best to abandon this email, but as I said, I only use it for low importance registrations, so, all that junk that I get there doesn't really bothers me.

[MaterialMouse69]

Today I was checking spam folder in one of my emails. Not the main one. I use this email address on low importance sign ups where I don't trust that website that much to use my main email. And I found maybe 40 messages send by same person between 12th and 21th of March. Here is full message that I got (removed password and BTC address from it:

Hi, today there are sadly some bad news for you.

Your device was infected with my private malware, your browser wasn't updated / patched, in such case it's enough to just visit some website where my iframe is placed to get automatically infected, if you want to find out more, Google: Drive-by exploit.

My malware gave me full access to all your accounts, full control over your device and it also was possible to spy on you over your cam.

If you think this is some bad joke, no, I know your password: *******

I collected all your private data and I RECORDED YOU (through your cam) SATISFYING YOURSELF!

After that I removed my malware to not leave any traces and this email was sent from some hacked server.

I can publish the video of you and all your private data on the whole web, social networks, over email and send everything to all your contacts.

But you can stop me and only I can help you out in this situation.

The only way to stop me, is to pay exactly 900$ in Bitcoin (BTC).

It's a very good offer, compared to all that horrible shit that will happen if I publish everything.

You can easily buy Bitcoin (BTC) here: www.paxful.com , www.coingate.com , www.coinbase.com , or check for Bitcoin (BTC) ATM near you, or Google for other exchanger.

You can send the Bitcoin (BTC) directly to my wallet, or install the free software: Atomicwallet, or: Exodus wallet, then receive and send to mine.

My Bitcoin (BTC) wallet is: ***************

Yes, that's how the wallet / address looks like, copy and paste it, it's (cAsE-sEnSEtiVE).

I give you 3 days time to pay.

After receiving the payment, I will remove everything and you can life your live in peace like before, don't worry, I keep my promise.

Next time make sure that your device got the newsest security updates.

ClientMailID: 6993041

Usually I don't pay attention to such messages, but there is one interesting moment - in few of his message he wrote one password that I really used in some not important websites. In other his messages he wrote password which looks similar to that one, but I haven't used such one. And in few other messages he just wrote some random passwords made from my email address.
There is one thing that made me sceptical about him - he wrote that he recorded me satisfying myself with my camera. But there is one thing - there is no camera in front of my PC, so, even if would did what he wrote, there is no chance for him to record it . Also, he said that my browser wasn't updated, but I always use newest version of browsers. Finally, he gave me 3 days, but few weeks already passed since I got these messages and nothing didn't happened. I also didn't noticed any strange attempts to login to any of my accounts recently.
It looks like a bit more sophisticated scam attempt. maybe it's really possible that he got my password from one of websites where I used. For example it can be some IPTV providers or Bitcoin faucets which I used many years ago and who sold their database.
I'm not concerned that much because on all websites that really matters I use different and strong websites and 2FA enabled. But I advise for everyone to take safety seriously. Use 2FA, make strong and different website for every website. Don't use your main email address for low importance sign-ups. And don't fall into such scams.

Maybe you send your email in some other fake website and your email got exposed so you have that kind of email. I've experienced it too, I have so many spam email and it's so scared to open because I'm thinking that if you click that email, your information may be exposed by some kind of hacker. Once i get this kind of spam, I reboot my cp and create a new email so that I will not worry anymore. Like what you said, 2FA is the best option for your safety and also to avoid some scammer and also hacker. Don't ignore this thing, It's really important that you know this kind of spam email. Don't just send your information to some suspicious website that can exposed your wallet or maybe your life

LOL  that guy is trying hard to scam you. I think he bought the data from a website where you used your information to register, and now he is trying his luck. I think this is kind of a unique system of email scam attempts. The way this email is written it is very engaging. I have finished the mail from start to finish.

I don't get any emails like this, and maybe it is time to check my spam box to look for some well-written scam scripts.

That guy has no will to live bro, he thinks that he can get a better life by just scamming and hacking people. Try to trick if you have this kind of email, prank it like he always do so the hacker can't hack or scamming anyone but I thinks the best way is just let them be, delete this kind of email so they stop teasing you.

[Lucius]

Initially I haven't checked his address because I thought that he would make new address for each potential victim. Now I looked into it - now it's empty, but it received in total over 0.024 BTC in 2 transactions.

Then at least one thing is clear, and that is that the scammer does not use a unique BTC address for each victim, because that would mean tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of unique BTC addresses and editing every e-mail that is sent. You can also check if the e-mail was sent only to you, or if it contains multiple recipients.

Where exactly I can report this address? I saw similar kind of websites, but now I don't remember their names.

There are more of them and they are easy to find through search engines, for example 1, or 2.

[Natalim]

I'm not receiving yet an email like this but at least, I have an idea already of what should I gonna do. Ignoring and never clicking links is the best thing to do and also, take a pause first before deciding or putting a conclusion on unsolicited emails. We know hackers are too aggressive and if they can find leaks in your security, that was easy for them to get in and take control of our accounts. It happens already and many people had lose their funds, I think that is enough and we have to put an end to this thing together.

[aysg76]

Where exactly I can report this address? I saw similar kind of websites, but now I don't remember their names.

Although there are various sites where you can do this like upon search I found article providing links where you can report these scams but don't know if any action is taken against them because they can provide the exchanges information about these addresses and block any transaction on them or even trace them but scammers are smart enough to bypass these restrictions as we have seen.But still you can check out this article

Check here

[_BlackStar]

I'm not receiving yet an email like this but at least, I have an idea already of what should I gonna do. Ignoring and never clicking links is the best thing to do and also, take a pause first before deciding or putting a conclusion on unsolicited emails. We know hackers are too aggressive and if they can find leaks in your security, that was easy for them to get in and take control of our accounts. It happens already and many people had lose their funds, I think that is enough and we have to put an end to this thing together.

Best recommendation is ignore, report email. I don't know what would require me to read the entire e-mail although some of the data may be similar. This is a bad trap, and the more they read the entire email, the more convinced they will be of what the scammer is saying. But I'm sure this is an old trick, but there are chances that it works when it comes to newbies. So be careful and ignore suspicious emails instead of reading them.

So far I haven't received any such email either, but to be honest I very rarely open email and have probably ignored hundreds of email in them. To the OP, this thread is good for warning other users especially newbies, but please don't give scammers a chance to brainwash you with multiple threats.

[Pokapoka124]

Initially I haven't checked his address because I thought that he would make new address for each potential victim. Now I looked into it - now it's empty, but it received in total over 0.024 BTC in 2 transactions.
Where exactly I can report this address? I saw similar kind of websites, but now I don't remember their names.

The scammer probably doesn’t even know the risks involved in repeating wallet addresses, he's only interested in receiving bitcoin as ransom because he think he won’t get caught that way. I don’t think he truly has anything on you, people fall for this blackmail scam because of fear, $900 is only the first amount if a person falls victim and pays, the scammer will request for more money.
You can report the bitcoin address here
https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/reports/16hN8whHuZywJwMUGoiKRYC2p34SYQrWZ8

[Asuspawer09]

He actually got your password somehow I mean he probably get that from other scam websites or probably it was the scam website that sent that email, I do manage my password on a notebook to avoid this I put a different password on different accounts and different websites, same as you do I do this exclusively on important websites, I don't even know the password of some of my accounts so I need my notebook to look at it most of the time, sometimes its a hassle doing that but it helps secure my accounts.

I mean you would really send this kind of amount of money to someone if they really have a sensitive file I might just accept that it's already on the internet, doing transactions with someone like him would just lead to more for sure.

Re: Don't use your bitcoin talk account password on other websites You can check this thread on how to make a strong password as well as using the same password on the same websites.

[Ultegra134]

I also received a similar email a few months ago, but it was in Russian instead of English and suggested using Google translate. However, it wasn't containing any of my passwords; it was a simple threat demanding $1000 in Bitcoin. Ignore it and move on; change your passwords and secure your Bitcointalk account, which is vital. I've also used the website haveibeenpwned.com and have suffered plenty of leaks. I've changed my password multiple times, but my email is still being targeted. Is there a way to save it, or should I just dump it?