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Anyone aware of this?
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"You can panic," reads the subject line of one fake sextortion email.
Another has a victim's real password in the subject line, in an attempt to establish authenticity.
These low-tech frauds spiked in 2018, according to the FBI's Internet Crime Compliant Center (IC3), netting millions for scammers.
Last year, electronic extortion complaints rose 242% to 51,146 reported crimes, with total losses of $83 million...…...............
Scammers send these emails out as form letters. They include claims about supposed improprieties, often including claims that the sender has evidence of your affairs, has hacked your webcam to take damning photos or videos of you or has evidence of pornographic material you've viewed.
Here's a sample letter, courtesy of antivirus software company Malwarebytes, which researches this and other scams:
I am well aware [REDACTED] is your pass words. Lets get right to point. Neither anyone has paid me to investigate you. You may not know me and you are probably thinking why you're getting this e-mail?
actually, i installed a software on the adult videos (pornographic material) web-site and do you know what, you visited this website to have fun (you know what i mean). While you were viewing videos, your web browser began working as a Remote Desktop that has a keylogger which gave me accessibility to your display and also cam. Just after that, my software gathered every one of your contacts from your Messenger, Facebook, as well as email . after that i created a double video. 1st part displays the video you were viewing (you've got a nice taste haha), and next part shows the recording of your cam, yeah its you....................
Besides having a healthy level of skepticism -- it is highly, highly unlikely anyone sending one of these emails knows you or has information on you, Kleczynski emphasises -- checking and updating your spam filters can also help, to make sure those filters are catching the latest versions of these scams.............
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"You can panic," reads the subject line of one fake sextortion email.
Another has a victim's real password in the subject line, in an attempt to establish authenticity.
These low-tech frauds spiked in 2018, according to the FBI's Internet Crime Compliant Center (IC3), netting millions for scammers.
Last year, electronic extortion complaints rose 242% to 51,146 reported crimes, with total losses of $83 million...…...............
Scammers send these emails out as form letters. They include claims about supposed improprieties, often including claims that the sender has evidence of your affairs, has hacked your webcam to take damning photos or videos of you or has evidence of pornographic material you've viewed.
Here's a sample letter, courtesy of antivirus software company Malwarebytes, which researches this and other scams:
I am well aware [REDACTED] is your pass words. Lets get right to point. Neither anyone has paid me to investigate you. You may not know me and you are probably thinking why you're getting this e-mail?
actually, i installed a software on the adult videos (pornographic material) web-site and do you know what, you visited this website to have fun (you know what i mean). While you were viewing videos, your web browser began working as a Remote Desktop that has a keylogger which gave me accessibility to your display and also cam. Just after that, my software gathered every one of your contacts from your Messenger, Facebook, as well as email . after that i created a double video. 1st part displays the video you were viewing (you've got a nice taste haha), and next part shows the recording of your cam, yeah its you....................
Besides having a healthy level of skepticism -- it is highly, highly unlikely anyone sending one of these emails knows you or has information on you, Kleczynski emphasises -- checking and updating your spam filters can also help, to make sure those filters are catching the latest versions of these scams.............
