Collaborate Disseminate
During the last few months, many of us will have received emails that try to extract a ransom via an anonymous cryptocurrency.
But as email blackmailers make big winnings, others are trying to cash in on the craze.
Continue reading Another wave of sextortion emails
Another quite different extortion, blackmail, phishing scam this morning. It is primarily aimed at French speaking users although it was received to an email address used by an English speaker. It comes from what purports or pretends to be a debt reco… Continue reading Fake PayPal Debt recovery email – Extortion, Blackmail, scam and Phishing
Twitter bots, fake reviews, and Instagram comments are the tools of a black hat SEO extortion attempt. Continue reading Scammers Threaten to Review Bomb a Travel Company Unless it Pays Ransom
Scammers tricked victims to pay ransom in bitcoin for compromising video that didn’t exist. Continue reading Hackers Made Half a Million Dollars Pretending They Watched You Watch Porn
Some computer users are reporting that they have received a new type of extortion email in their inbox, which – in an attempt to scare them into giving in to demands for money – quotes part of their phone number.
But where are the blackmailers getting … Continue reading Sex extortion emails now quoting part of their victim’s phone number
This weekend I received an email forwarded from a stranger. They had received a threatening email and had shared it with a former student of mine to ask advice. Fortunately, the correct advice in this case was “Ignore it.” But they s… Continue reading Porn Extortion Email tied to Password Breach
By Carolina
The Sextortion Campaign involves Passwords Stolen from Old Data Breaches.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New sextortion scheme uses users’ old password for blackmailing
Continue reading New sextortion scheme uses users’ old password for blackmailing
Imagine you’ve gotten your hands on a file of e-mail addresses and passwords. You want to monetize it, but the site it’s for isn’t very valuable. How do you use it? You convince the owners of the password to send you money. I recently saw a spam e-mail… Continue reading Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft
Imagine you’ve gotten your hands on a file of e-mail addresses and passwords. You want to monetize it, but the site it’s for isn’t very valuable. How do you use it? You convince the owners of the password to send you money. I recently saw a spam e-mail that ties the password to a porn site. The e-mail title contains… Continue reading Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft
The scam emails claim to have compromising video of you, and back it up by showing you one of your passwords. Continue reading Sextortion scam knows your password, but don’t fall for it