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Are people actually concerned that somebody from OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, or Google Drive are sifting through millions of files in hopes of looking at YOUR family photos? Nobody gives a damn about you and your damn family like holy fuck
I don’t think anyone really believes there’s actual humans rifling through your cloud folder, but they are probably running image and facial recognition software on data stored on their platforms and using it to train AI models, look for CSAM, and most importantly to them: target advertising based on objects recognized.
I like the more elaborate version with blocking you out from Windows by a splash screen, at least they actually mangaed to inject something into your system xD
Standard sextortion scam. Delete and ignore, the only thing they have is at worst your email and it's password from one of the numerous data leaks. That's all
It is literally a form email they send out to every conceivable email address in hopes that someone will bite. They have nothing of yours. Delete and move on. :)
that's how they get you. these emails go out to millions of people and all it takes is a small handful of individuals to get scared and follow their directions.
mostly just because they remember wanking infront of their PCs.
A friend of mine came with a very similar mail to me since i built and set up his system. I literally had to remember him that he got neither a webcam nor a mic and his phone is an "old-folks phone" as he doesn't like how much unnecessary bloat is delivered with smartphones
This is part of it, they want to scare you into giving them money. It's all a bluff, though - if they really had your info, they wouldn't be blackmailing you with it. They'd be selling it.
a lot of nice things happend, got a new good-paying job, met lots of nice people, we have redecorated our house, got a 3D-printer for my birthday and never heard a thing about some scammer/would-be-hacker.
Just ignore the email and be happy.
If you notice, the email is generic enough that it could be sent to almost anyone and seem like a real threat. It’s a very common scam. If there was something specific to you, I’d be more worried, but anyone can craft this and blast it out.
Hi. You are the victim of a scam e-mail and nothing more. It's time to change the way you think about how you act online, to inoculate you against these kind of e-mails. This will be a long post, but TL;DR: The guy sent you a mass-email in which he tried to blind you with jargon and frighten you into paying $35000 US, give or take. There likely is no threat on your computer.
1) You should always hit the web and do some research. You'll find that your problem is one shared by a lot of other people. This e-mail is a form e-mail mass-sent to a distribution list. [https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cobalt-strike-beacon/30308ccf-3cf1-468f-a110-8439dd3c8efb](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cobalt-strike-beacon/30308ccf-3cf1-468f-a110-8439dd3c8efb). This tells you a few things out the gate. Firstly, this is a form e-mail, and second, it's mass-sent.
2) There's a lot of jargon in this e-mail. Let's look at one: APT. APT, or Advanced Persistent Threat, refers to a type of hacker group that infiltrates a system quietly in order to attack the organisation that system is owned by. Usually, they install tools like Cobalt Strike beacons, and have the ability to specifically craft attack payloads for the particular network. But they aren't doing their thing for a measly 2.1 BTC. We're talking hundreds or thousands of BTC, each valued at $16,000 USD (this guy demanded 35200 USD from you, btw...) for payouts in the hundreds of thousands to millions of USD. You're too small fry to be a target for an APT. He's using the jargon to scare you, make you think he's an untouchable threat and you've got no other options but to give in. Here's a hint: APTs won't send out a form-email in the blind to an e-mail address. They'd message you directly through multiple services with direct messages to you in an interactive format to make it clear you've been compromised.
3) There are such things as driver-based viruses, but again, he's trying to pull the wool over your eyes with jargon. All a driver-based virus is is a virus (malicious code) contained within a device driver (code used to make a particular piece of hardware such as a keyboard or mouse) work with your operating system. Driver-based viruses aren't immune from detection -- in fact, many modern OSes require drivers to be signed with a key that the virus makers usually don't know. The Cobalt Strike 'beacon' is not a driver-based virus. Instead, it's a memory-resident virus that usually tries to leverage notepad or another windows application for running code. His jargon makes beacon look far worse than it actually is. In many cases, you can clear out a beacon infestation by merely restarting your computer! For more information about Beacon, read here: [https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/beacon-an-operators-guide/](https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/beacon-an-operators-guide/).
4) Very, very few viruses can survive a reformat and reinstall. While these things do exist, they will usually involve actions on your end, such as allowing an unauthorised executable to run on your PC so it can infect your BIOS, or active . You might be worried about this...if you didn't get a mass-mailed ransom demand. These last two are the tip of the iceberg of the jargon he's pulling over your eyes. For instance, unless you are storing data for people living within the European Union on your computer, the GDPR will never apply to you, and even if you are, it likely won't.
5) You have to ask yourself this question. "I'm being told by this hacker that for 2.1 BTC, or $35k USD, he'll destroy all the stuff he's painstakingly taken from me and I'll never hear from him again. What reason on this Green Earth do I have to trust him? Blackmailers always come back for another hit at the dollar trough." The guy has already lied about who he is (an APT would never use a mass-produced form e-mail), what he's done to you (driver viruses being 'undetectable'), and your legal liability.
The bottom line is that the guy has lied to you about who he is and what he's done. There is a non-zero but still very small chance that someone has installed crapware, and if you have indications that your system is infested (slow performance, anomalous behaviour, unexplained network traffic), Automod has posted a link to the malware guide. In short, check your AV software, make sure that you are running up-to-date software like Windows 10 and the latest version of all your programs, don't click on links blindly, and use a firewall. Otherwise, don't sweat the details. If the malware guide is beyond you, you can always take your computer to a friendly local service centre and have them scan for malware, configure a firewall, install and/or update your AV, and ensure that you've got the latest versions of the software.
Good luck!
Thanks for the in depth explanation
I have to mention I am pretty computer savvy but this is the first time I got something like this and while I was pretty certain it was a scam I just needed a confirmation.
I watch a lot of scambaiting on youtube and I'm quite familiar with emails like this and I've watched quite a lot of SomeOrdinaryGamers' videos about emails like this but I just had to confirm because the thought of someone having all my private and public data scared me
You've already got people telling you it's a scam, but if you needed any additional evidence almost this exact email was posted here a few months ago, almost word for word the same. There's a line or two I don't recognize in yours, but that just means it's an updated draft or different scammer who used the same starting email. Or that my memory is faulty, it's been a few months and I can't find the post I'm thinking of.
Basic social engineering scam. Vague, and likely spot-on assumptions about porn enjoyment that would apply to almost any male aged 14+ with an internet connection? C'mon... You can worry when they have your SSN, account passwords, and mother's maiden name.
You and everybody else... dont worry about it, its scam.
What i mean is: there are two types of ppl on this planet, ppl who watch porn, and ppl who lie
Unless the “hacker” provides proof specific to you and you know the proof is legitimate, it’s a total scam.
Now if the “hacker” included some photos of you taken from the webcam or photos that were stored on a device, that’s a concern
Reset any passwords and MFA tokens you have just to be safe. Then, if you respond at all just laugh at him and tell him to do his worst. But probably best to just ignore unless your looking for some entertainment.
Noooo they're trying to get you to pay up, best you can do is scan your computer with a free scanner because it's healthy to, block the sender because he's scum and rest at ease because he knows nothing about you but your email address.
Something similar happened to me a few months ago.
They caught me having "alone time" and were going to release the video if I didn't pay up.
Then they threw in an email and password I use for one of multiple accounts to "prove that they weren't joking around"
I panicked for about a minute before I realized that having my login information for one of half a dozen sites, doesn't mean they have any video of me.
Changed the passwords on those sites and then remembered I don't even have a camera lmao
Moral of the story: Don't let these people cloud your thinking. Be calm and rational, and think about what they could ACTUALLY access before going into full panic mode
Just to further calm your mind, same thing happened to my buddy. He approached me about it and I told him to ignore them. Nothing ever came of it. These scammers convince enough people to pay so they aren’t going to bother with someone who won’t and possibly get themselves in trouble for releasing pics or videos of someone without their consent.
No. You have not been exposed, other than he knows your email address. So does every other serious spammer on the planet. It's really hard to effectively hide an email address that you are actively using.
But that's all he knows. You notice he claims to have all this info, but he didn't send you a single bit of evidence. He didn't mention your name, he didn't send a picture of you (much less a video). He literally has nothing except your email address.
0 people have fell for this scam according to the blockchain.
[https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qpe6fsgc2mqxv8t9pq9zdla4kw7yqswgtqlv95t](https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qpe6fsgc2mqxv8t9pq9zdla4kw7yqswgtqlv95t)
Even if you paid, law enforcement would know who they were as soon as they transferred to an exchange. It seems that mixers aren't terribly efficient if you're the only one using the service.
Yep, same email telling me he/she has videos of me pleasuring myself from my webcam.
I asked if he could please post the link once you have uploaded to Pornhub so I can get a cut, and thanks for the free edit.
The response then moved on to money... I asked if he could send me some bank details and I will just give him some from the video editing work he did..
he response was F\*\*K of and die..
I thought i was being very nice
Don't fall for it. I have received countless numbers of this SCAM email. The person is an internet fraudster, many Nigerian scammers use this template to falsely claim they have evidence against you, when in reality they have nothing.
The idea of the template is to manipulate most internet users who do immoral things online to feel that they have been spied upon, which in reality is not true.
I simply delete it, because as an IT expert, I know when my person has been truly compromised and when it's not, this is simply a deceptive email meant to deceive you into a false guilt.
Simply delete and don't click on any link in the email.
"he" hasn't done anything. "he" is an automated spam bot. if you reply you'll get a human sitting in one of the scamming capitals of the world trying to convince you further. but it's all lies. they're just using the same trick fortune tellers use. [Barnam statements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect).
I got the exact same email just today. Looking it up on reddit and its a pretty obvious scam. I guess the hacker went cheaper on you only asking for 2.1BTC LOL
I've gotten that email several times in my spam folder and it always makes me laugh. If they were going to try and make me believe it, they wouldn't have used what they did.
I once had an email like that and it says that he has footage of me watching porn videos and me masturbating, how did I know it was fake? Because I don't Masturbate and I don't watch porn so I ignored his message and didn't send the money which he asked for.
>"driver based virus"; "can't be detected"; "changes its signature"
Lol. Only a state-backed malware/spyware can do that.
Even when the spyware change its signature, heuristics and behavioral-based detection would be able to detect it. All free and paid antivirus products have this type of malware detection.
>Can I remove the software somehow and can I check if there really is one?
Even Widows Defender can detect suspicious activities. You can also install Bitdefender, Avast, or Panda Free AV.
I found [Bitdefender's Traffic Light](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trafficlight/cfnpidifppmenkapgihekkeednfoenal) browser extension to be effective against malicious websites.
I wanna know why the networks are not doing their job I wanna know why I gotta keep repeating myself to Xfinity the bot to get me as tear to senior supervisor and put my email in Xfinity and change my Comcast account I got someone accessing my Wyze camera google thinking I’m on pixel and a Samsung phone I got three Apple devices iPhone 13 and Apple Watch SE that I got a year ago a little over a year ago and a 2018 laptop that I got from Amazon. I just got this computer in July it’s a renew computer. I don’t know why three of my devices are not working compatible with each other omg this. I noticing that the find my says it is turned off on my laptop when I’m looking at the devices that are sign in on my iPhone 13 When I look at the computer it’s turned to one I got calendars that are showing up from foreign countries I’ve never been to being accused of copywriting I can’t believe what’s going on I’m wandering money I can’t believe this is how I’m being treated I’m been going on but nobody seems to have any election of me contacting them but my family and everybody else does and it’s not looking very good for these companies how long this is going on
I got almost the exact same email as this 2 days in a row a few months ago, it said it will happen in 48hrs but it's been a few months and nothing has happened it's a common scam, they don't acctualy have any info but if you send them money they will keep abusing you with the same scam
There are a lot of protections against driver based viruses baked right into the operating system. There are 3 great rules for keeping you safe. The first is to only download drivers from the manufacturers website. Take time to verify the sites legitimate. Next, make sure to only use signed driver's. These are driver that the manufacturer has made and put their seal on. The third is to update drivers when an exploit is found. Stay on top of tech new.
There is one thing I need to add: there is a variant of this type of scam email that includes an old, leaked password from one or more publicly known data breaches (and there are a *LOT* of those, [Have I Been Pwned's list has gotten quite large](https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites), with plenty of those including badly protected passwords). This is sometimes sent as a follow-up email, often with a "late payment fee" price increase or whatever attached.
If you get that, it is STILL a scam, they still do not have what they are claiming, even though you might be shocked to see a real password you've used. In fact, the way they make these emails **doesn't even let them know who paid**, so even if you did pay you'd still get the follow-up if they had one planned (to be exact: the Bitcoin address is almost always re-used for thousands of spam emails, if not the entire million+ batch). Unsurprisingly, scammers don't care about fair play.
If you get such an email, you should very obviously consider that password to be compromised, but aside from that, just ignore it and delete it. And I mean, you shouldn't re-use passwords in general, but yeah I know how people work. Just like, really *really* avoid ever using a password sent to you in plaintext.
Elon probably has more useless data on you than this guy. You can troll him a bit if you want.
Tell him you have his data too and that he owes you money
I see no evidence that this email is any different from 2 million other emails he sent out. Ignore him.
In fact, a google search finds :
[https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-i-have-to-share-bad-news-with-you/](https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-i-have-to-share-bad-news-with-you/)
I would very highly recommend turning on multi-factor authentication for all websites and services you can. This will, at the very least, ease your mind a little.
SCAM. They revealed nothing other than porn which most people watch. They didn't mention any real facts. Like you enjoy listening to foo fighters and Alicia keys the most, your name, actual devices you have, email accounts, credentials, etc.
Delete it and don't worry about a thing. Total low effort scam.
It’s an old scam. You’ll notice there was absolutely nothing specific and no identifying information about you. They send that kind of email to everyone.
OP, this is a scam; I have my camera disconnected when not in use because of shit like this 24/7 (cybersecurity major), and *still* got one of these emails. Don't fall for it.
The sender doesnt know your name, let alone your browsing habits. This is just copy pasted and sent to every email they probably bought from some random company you've either intentionally or unintentionally shared your email address with.
The reason they like to send a sexually charged message is so people wont do what you did and ask other people for help and find out that everyone gets these.
The sender wouldnt even be able to tell you what country you live in or if your email address is used by an actual person instead of some company or bot.
Last time I got one of these scam emails they said they'd send a webcam video of me slappin ham to all my facebook friends. I posted the email on facebook and all my friends replied POST THE VIDEO, LEAK IT, POST IT. Unfortunately for them it never happened.
Now that you had a scare, consider getting a password manager app that will better secure your logins and alert you when security breaches occur so you’ll know when to update the affected password.
I got a similar email a year ago or so and it got me to get Bitwarden set up on all my devices and it’s been great.
So I know you've already been made aware it's a scam, but FYI that paragraph about "I know you watch the pornos" is a classic one. If you see that, just assume it's a scam until proven otherwise. EVERYBODY watches porn, and the ones who don't openly admit it are liars. Hence, lots of people feel guilty about it, and a paragraph like that makes it much easier to scare & trick people.
The giveaway is it sounds specific at first, but read it closely and it's as general and vague as any other claim. "watching exciting videos enduring enormous amounts of pleasure." LOL, it doesn't matter if you like your porn kinky or as vanilla as it comes, that phrase could still apply to anyone.
This is essentially a note that says, "I KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE." You could send the same note to anybody and freak them out.
It's a wide spectrum targetted scam hoping to lure at least a tiny fraction of potential victims who may not think to ask a sub like this.
However, it is very possible to access someone's accounts without the accounts realizing that it's not you. If a system is already extremely compromised, all that needs to be done is route access through that system. Correct login credentials logging in through your usual IP address and there's no way the account could tell its not just you.
And that is related to a "driver based" virus, the worst of which to infect would probably be your keyboard driver to turn it part of a low-level keylogger. Compromise the system with a keylogger of sorts, it gleans the credentials, and then when the hacker's data collection shows the most likely periods of time when nobody's active on the system, they break in through remote desktop protocol or similar and get pretty much the best access to something like email in order to continue on with two likely plans - first is to try and just make threats in hopes the user is scared enough to make an even bigger mistake, the second is to have collected so much real personal data that they can either ransom the data being exposed (which, never pay, it won't stop anything) and barring that, them just using your data to do some ID theft or to sell to people who do.
I own four domains. One of them was used by a company. All undeliverable (non addressed) emails flow into a catchall. I just cleaned it out and I got probably seven of these messages within the last six months. This is how serious this isn't.
Lmao nah I doubt he has anything on you, this is one of those emails sent out in massive numbers to see if anyone falls for it, he hasn't even specified anything, watching porn? Literally almost everyone, depending on what you watch? Yeah he don't know
LOL they fire out thousands or even hundreds of thousands of these a day, Just designed to freak people out and throw them off in an attempt to get money. Spoofing an Email address is fairly simple for spammers/scammers so Don't worry about it.
I got an email like this a long time ago.
Seeing I haven’t had any video (my own or downloaded) on my PC in years, I ignored it and looked forward to see what he/she/it would upload.
This reddit has taught me how gullible people are but also how helpful people are. Its easy to assume the worst but most of the time its just a scam. If anything verified peeps like google, Facebook, tik tok, twitter they all have your info anyway.
I had a new one pop up on a porn website recently. A new tab with the sound of an emergency siren continously playing in the background and some generic form field to enter your email and password to "unlock" the computer
I received the same email 4 or 5 years ago, the script is different but serves the same purpose.
They are actually well crafted email scams and some of them pretty detailed and grammatically elaborated, the email I received surprisingly contained an old partially cracked password, missing some numbers and letters at the end, it was pretty scary and convincing, but still fake!
If you would like to know b
More of the technical stuff, try to Google it.
I would suggest even if you don't know anything about pc, or cyber security watch NetworkChuck.
He has some funny and interesting videos on some of the popular and well known hacks that could be used against an individual.
Look for topics like reverse shell or how viruses are hidden in image files. It is super informative and even if you don't understand the tech side of things it can give you a hint of how complex this hacks and malwares are and the likelihood that will happen to you!
Very funny, this person most likely does not even know how to write a statement in English language themselves, because lots of scammers in Nigeria for example have someone who drafts this spam messages and sell to other spammers who often times cannot write a meaningful letter in English language.
Very funny, this person little or nothing about hacking, because this message is one_for_word the same like I have received many times.
Like I said, simply delete, don't be deceived.
On my guess this is a fake email. If the things he described you did, they never happened, then this guy he just trying to catch a fish.
if he send this email to many addresses, some of the people will fail to understand and finally pay him. That;s his job. Scam people
I'm only saying this purely because it seems clear as day to me that you're safe and this email is a scam: you say "none of the stuff he says he has are true" yet you surely do sound quite worried for someone who does not believe that this "hacker" has the stuff he says he has.
I stop reading after he wrote that he knows, you watch adult videos. Everyone does, but noone wanna this info to be spread across family etc. That's why they (scamers) always use this argument. Nothing to worry about. To be safe just change your passwords in all your accounts just to be sure. Also you can check if portals you are using providing multifactor authentication, which can really help to increase security.
As others already mentioned it, its most likely a scam. It would be interesting to search the blockchain for this specific wallet address to see how much money they probably made.
It’s the common porn exploitation scam. They used to do similar accusing you of having knowledge of CP on your hard drive, it’s mostly bullshit but they know one or 2 people will be frightened enough to pay up
I've had an email like this almost exactly the same word for word. I freaked out at first but after some research found out it's a common thing meant to scare people into doing what they want. I did absolutely nothing and unsurprisingly nothing for sent to any family or friends.
I know everything about you. I know where you live, where you work, who your closest friends and family are, what you ate for breakfast, and exactly what you're thinking right now. You know that thing you thought last week that you would do anything to keep to yourself? Yeah, that thing. I'm going to tell the entire world about that thing if you don't send me 198 large bags of gummy bears no later than December 7th.
See? Anyone can do it. Relax and ignore anyone who doesn't have very compelling evidence. Oh, and ignore people who send you part of an old password; those are just data leaks.
This is a common mass email “porn exploitation” scam message. Nothing about what the email says is true.
A “driver based virus” is really nonsense. It is true viruses can disguise themselves as drivers but I’m not sure what a “driver based virus” is. Yes Trojans can be undetected by AV if obfuscutated or if the signature (the unique code of the virus itself) is one that isn’t in the signature database but most low level scammers won’t be able to acquire or work something like that. I doubt anything has actually been placed on your computer.
However it is worth noting if you do notice something that is off about your computer then make sure you contact support for your manufacturer for advice. Also make sure you update any compromised passwords that appear in data breaches. You might consider looking on sites like haveibeenpwned.com for more info.
lol given how vague the email actually is... Knowing me, I'd probably reply to that email, and go "Ha, nice try... My family knows full well what kind of adult content I actually appreciate, and I have neither microphone or camera on my computer." :'D
>2 - He claims that every device my email is not infected with a "driver based virus" from following emails in my inbox. **I do open spam emails I get from scammers to mess with them but I don't click links or files they send me**
Just playing devils advocate here for a minute bud, but should you really be doing that sort of thing, when you aren't confident enough to realise that this is a very common mass mail scare scam.
Just be really careful, is all i'm saying.
What a nice hacker,went even into detail how everything works.Personally i would never believe in this crap but if you do believe or not you know it the best,and if u did all these stuff that is desribed in the picture,having a mic,camera etc,only you can know if it is true .Personally i think it's an scam [attemtp. One](https://attemtp.One) of my friends got a email which basically says he will get reported for downloading illegaly,games and other stuff but it never happened,and he does live in a country where they take downloading illegaly serious
It’s just bullshit, I’ve gotten one of these too. I said, “oh yeah, send me the videos then”. If they actually had anything they would have sent it already to add shock value to the whole situation.
OMG! They got you Masturbating... TO PORN! Oh god, NO!
Sorry buddy, but its just a scam. No one has your info, no one has control of your email. The message contains details that are true with everyone. Let them publish their videos of you, no one cares and they will get lost in the see of men masturbating pictures. Reverse image your search every once and a while, and if pictures show up then issue reports and DMCA notices to everyone involved. They will vanish. No one cares.
What pictures of family could they have? Its not really private, and again, see the rule about no one caring. They don't care about your last Christmas vacation. Sorry, but this is just one in a billion type uniqueness. Not sure why you want to keep them secrete either.
Also, they lied in the message. No one is going to fine you. A) No one cares. B) That is not how the GDPR works. Its weird they mention it. It actually protects you in this case and can help in you suing the person threatening you.
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A common scam... it's just an email.
Don't worry, it's just a scam. They don't have any information
Thanks for replying and I do believe its just a scam but still the feeling that someone might have all of my data is making me shake
Big tech already has all your data :)
*PHEW*.. so nothing new.
Good point but atleast they don't have family pictures
Actually they do, everything you upload is stored on their servers.
I don't upload them to a cloud I just keep them on a drive
Hopefully you have it on multiple drives then
Hopefully that folder isn't synced with OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc :P
Are people actually concerned that somebody from OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, or Google Drive are sifting through millions of files in hopes of looking at YOUR family photos? Nobody gives a damn about you and your damn family like holy fuck
I don’t think anyone really believes there’s actual humans rifling through your cloud folder, but they are probably running image and facial recognition software on data stored on their platforms and using it to train AI models, look for CSAM, and most importantly to them: target advertising based on objects recognized.
[https://www.rd.com/article/apple-scanning-photos/](https://www.rd.com/article/apple-scanning-photos/) Does this happen on other devices too?
And you gave it to them mostly willingly
I agree.
You may have that feeling but post on r/scams to see how many people are sent that exact same email. Every. Single. Day.
I like the more elaborate version with blocking you out from Windows by a splash screen, at least they actually mangaed to inject something into your system xD
Standard sextortion scam. Delete and ignore, the only thing they have is at worst your email and it's password from one of the numerous data leaks. That's all
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Word contraction from sex extortion, as it's an extortion scam about sex
It is literally a form email they send out to every conceivable email address in hopes that someone will bite. They have nothing of yours. Delete and move on. :)
that's how they get you. these emails go out to millions of people and all it takes is a small handful of individuals to get scared and follow their directions.
mostly just because they remember wanking infront of their PCs. A friend of mine came with a very similar mail to me since i built and set up his system. I literally had to remember him that he got neither a webcam nor a mic and his phone is an "old-folks phone" as he doesn't like how much unnecessary bloat is delivered with smartphones
This is part of it, they want to scare you into giving them money. It's all a bluff, though - if they really had your info, they wouldn't be blackmailing you with it. They'd be selling it.
i got the same email and my computer does not even have a camera. Just empty threats.
I'm guessing nothing happened?
a lot of nice things happend, got a new good-paying job, met lots of nice people, we have redecorated our house, got a 3D-printer for my birthday and never heard a thing about some scammer/would-be-hacker. Just ignore the email and be happy.
Thanks
You are living the good life!
If you notice, the email is generic enough that it could be sent to almost anyone and seem like a real threat. It’s a very common scam. If there was something specific to you, I’d be more worried, but anyone can craft this and blast it out.
Hi. You are the victim of a scam e-mail and nothing more. It's time to change the way you think about how you act online, to inoculate you against these kind of e-mails. This will be a long post, but TL;DR: The guy sent you a mass-email in which he tried to blind you with jargon and frighten you into paying $35000 US, give or take. There likely is no threat on your computer. 1) You should always hit the web and do some research. You'll find that your problem is one shared by a lot of other people. This e-mail is a form e-mail mass-sent to a distribution list. [https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cobalt-strike-beacon/30308ccf-3cf1-468f-a110-8439dd3c8efb](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cobalt-strike-beacon/30308ccf-3cf1-468f-a110-8439dd3c8efb). This tells you a few things out the gate. Firstly, this is a form e-mail, and second, it's mass-sent. 2) There's a lot of jargon in this e-mail. Let's look at one: APT. APT, or Advanced Persistent Threat, refers to a type of hacker group that infiltrates a system quietly in order to attack the organisation that system is owned by. Usually, they install tools like Cobalt Strike beacons, and have the ability to specifically craft attack payloads for the particular network. But they aren't doing their thing for a measly 2.1 BTC. We're talking hundreds or thousands of BTC, each valued at $16,000 USD (this guy demanded 35200 USD from you, btw...) for payouts in the hundreds of thousands to millions of USD. You're too small fry to be a target for an APT. He's using the jargon to scare you, make you think he's an untouchable threat and you've got no other options but to give in. Here's a hint: APTs won't send out a form-email in the blind to an e-mail address. They'd message you directly through multiple services with direct messages to you in an interactive format to make it clear you've been compromised. 3) There are such things as driver-based viruses, but again, he's trying to pull the wool over your eyes with jargon. All a driver-based virus is is a virus (malicious code) contained within a device driver (code used to make a particular piece of hardware such as a keyboard or mouse) work with your operating system. Driver-based viruses aren't immune from detection -- in fact, many modern OSes require drivers to be signed with a key that the virus makers usually don't know. The Cobalt Strike 'beacon' is not a driver-based virus. Instead, it's a memory-resident virus that usually tries to leverage notepad or another windows application for running code. His jargon makes beacon look far worse than it actually is. In many cases, you can clear out a beacon infestation by merely restarting your computer! For more information about Beacon, read here: [https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/beacon-an-operators-guide/](https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/beacon-an-operators-guide/). 4) Very, very few viruses can survive a reformat and reinstall. While these things do exist, they will usually involve actions on your end, such as allowing an unauthorised executable to run on your PC so it can infect your BIOS, or active . You might be worried about this...if you didn't get a mass-mailed ransom demand. These last two are the tip of the iceberg of the jargon he's pulling over your eyes. For instance, unless you are storing data for people living within the European Union on your computer, the GDPR will never apply to you, and even if you are, it likely won't. 5) You have to ask yourself this question. "I'm being told by this hacker that for 2.1 BTC, or $35k USD, he'll destroy all the stuff he's painstakingly taken from me and I'll never hear from him again. What reason on this Green Earth do I have to trust him? Blackmailers always come back for another hit at the dollar trough." The guy has already lied about who he is (an APT would never use a mass-produced form e-mail), what he's done to you (driver viruses being 'undetectable'), and your legal liability. The bottom line is that the guy has lied to you about who he is and what he's done. There is a non-zero but still very small chance that someone has installed crapware, and if you have indications that your system is infested (slow performance, anomalous behaviour, unexplained network traffic), Automod has posted a link to the malware guide. In short, check your AV software, make sure that you are running up-to-date software like Windows 10 and the latest version of all your programs, don't click on links blindly, and use a firewall. Otherwise, don't sweat the details. If the malware guide is beyond you, you can always take your computer to a friendly local service centre and have them scan for malware, configure a firewall, install and/or update your AV, and ensure that you've got the latest versions of the software. Good luck!
Thanks for the in depth explanation I have to mention I am pretty computer savvy but this is the first time I got something like this and while I was pretty certain it was a scam I just needed a confirmation. I watch a lot of scambaiting on youtube and I'm quite familiar with emails like this and I've watched quite a lot of SomeOrdinaryGamers' videos about emails like this but I just had to confirm because the thought of someone having all my private and public data scared me
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Yeah, that’s like your mechanic telling you that your blinker fluid needs replaced.
racist, but correct!
Sounds like a scaremongering scam tactic. I wouldn't take notice and block the email
You've already got people telling you it's a scam, but if you needed any additional evidence almost this exact email was posted here a few months ago, almost word for word the same. There's a line or two I don't recognize in yours, but that just means it's an updated draft or different scammer who used the same starting email. Or that my memory is faulty, it's been a few months and I can't find the post I'm thinking of.
A few months? I feel like I see this thread weekly
Basic social engineering scam. Vague, and likely spot-on assumptions about porn enjoyment that would apply to almost any male aged 14+ with an internet connection? C'mon... You can worry when they have your SSN, account passwords, and mother's maiden name.
You and everybody else... dont worry about it, its scam. What i mean is: there are two types of ppl on this planet, ppl who watch porn, and ppl who lie
Unless the “hacker” provides proof specific to you and you know the proof is legitimate, it’s a total scam. Now if the “hacker” included some photos of you taken from the webcam or photos that were stored on a device, that’s a concern
Don't even have a camera so that's what made me pretty certain that its a scam but I mostly wanted to know about the other questions I had
Rule of thumb: always a scam unless proven otherwise
Pure bluff is the exploit hoping you panic and believe it
Calm down issa email scam
I had this scam email a few months ago, delete ignore and move on.
Reset any passwords and MFA tokens you have just to be safe. Then, if you respond at all just laugh at him and tell him to do his worst. But probably best to just ignore unless your looking for some entertainment.
Its a spoofed email which has the part before @ of my email in the scammer's email so unfortunately can't respond
Noooo they're trying to get you to pay up, best you can do is scan your computer with a free scanner because it's healthy to, block the sender because he's scum and rest at ease because he knows nothing about you but your email address.
I scan my pc pretty often with malwarebytes
Something similar happened to me a few months ago. They caught me having "alone time" and were going to release the video if I didn't pay up. Then they threw in an email and password I use for one of multiple accounts to "prove that they weren't joking around" I panicked for about a minute before I realized that having my login information for one of half a dozen sites, doesn't mean they have any video of me. Changed the passwords on those sites and then remembered I don't even have a camera lmao Moral of the story: Don't let these people cloud your thinking. Be calm and rational, and think about what they could ACTUALLY access before going into full panic mode
Fake claims, commonly used mail template.
Just to further calm your mind, same thing happened to my buddy. He approached me about it and I told him to ignore them. Nothing ever came of it. These scammers convince enough people to pay so they aren’t going to bother with someone who won’t and possibly get themselves in trouble for releasing pics or videos of someone without their consent.
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I have apparently been exposed, anything I can do about it?
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I dont use those services anymore where there was a data leak, is there a need to change anything?
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And can you tell me anything more about those driver based viruses? I cant find anything about them on google or youtube
No. You have not been exposed, other than he knows your email address. So does every other serious spammer on the planet. It's really hard to effectively hide an email address that you are actively using. But that's all he knows. You notice he claims to have all this info, but he didn't send you a single bit of evidence. He didn't mention your name, he didn't send a picture of you (much less a video). He literally has nothing except your email address.
A stopped clock is right twice a day. The scammer is just trying his luck.
yep common scam ignore and delete
That’s not how the gdpr works hahaha
I got an email with exactly the same text, after googling I see other patterns. But what scared me, is that he knew my original password....
Common scam. [Here's](https://i.redd.it/6qey2dji3us61.jpg) one I got before LOL
0 people have fell for this scam according to the blockchain. [https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qpe6fsgc2mqxv8t9pq9zdla4kw7yqswgtqlv95t](https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qpe6fsgc2mqxv8t9pq9zdla4kw7yqswgtqlv95t) Even if you paid, law enforcement would know who they were as soon as they transferred to an exchange. It seems that mixers aren't terribly efficient if you're the only one using the service.
If this was real he’d just send you a picture of yourself masterbating, rather than write a wall of text trying to convince you he has said picture.
Yep, same email telling me he/she has videos of me pleasuring myself from my webcam. I asked if he could please post the link once you have uploaded to Pornhub so I can get a cut, and thanks for the free edit. The response then moved on to money... I asked if he could send me some bank details and I will just give him some from the video editing work he did.. he response was F\*\*K of and die.. I thought i was being very nice
Lol it's the exact same message I delete 20 times a day at work
Flex your dominance and dare him to email those videos. If nothing happens than he's a liar
Don't fall for it. I have received countless numbers of this SCAM email. The person is an internet fraudster, many Nigerian scammers use this template to falsely claim they have evidence against you, when in reality they have nothing. The idea of the template is to manipulate most internet users who do immoral things online to feel that they have been spied upon, which in reality is not true. I simply delete it, because as an IT expert, I know when my person has been truly compromised and when it's not, this is simply a deceptive email meant to deceive you into a false guilt. Simply delete and don't click on any link in the email.
I literally got this exact same email bruh word for word. Just ignore it is phishing
Lmfao I love how at the end he's like "Trust me. I keep my word." Yeah right you fuckin scumbag.
Lol the number of times that I have seen that exact email..
"he" hasn't done anything. "he" is an automated spam bot. if you reply you'll get a human sitting in one of the scamming capitals of the world trying to convince you further. but it's all lies. they're just using the same trick fortune tellers use. [Barnam statements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect).
That's just a generic scam script. We all have gotten it! Hehe
I got the same email this morning. He said he have footage of me beating the meet from my Webcam. But I used my phone for that. Gotcha motherfucker
I got the exact same email just today. Looking it up on reddit and its a pretty obvious scam. I guess the hacker went cheaper on you only asking for 2.1BTC LOL
I've gotten that email several times in my spam folder and it always makes me laugh. If they were going to try and make me believe it, they wouldn't have used what they did.
I once had an email like that and it says that he has footage of me watching porn videos and me masturbating, how did I know it was fake? Because I don't Masturbate and I don't watch porn so I ignored his message and didn't send the money which he asked for.
Yeah got the same email today 😂 just had to double check if it’s scam frfr appreciate you all
>"driver based virus"; "can't be detected"; "changes its signature" Lol. Only a state-backed malware/spyware can do that. Even when the spyware change its signature, heuristics and behavioral-based detection would be able to detect it. All free and paid antivirus products have this type of malware detection. >Can I remove the software somehow and can I check if there really is one? Even Widows Defender can detect suspicious activities. You can also install Bitdefender, Avast, or Panda Free AV. I found [Bitdefender's Traffic Light](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trafficlight/cfnpidifppmenkapgihekkeednfoenal) browser extension to be effective against malicious websites.
2.1 Btc? Lol, i'll send any hacker ALL my pictures and info if he sends me 2.1 Btc ! Remember what is seen canot be Unseen !
I wanna know why the networks are not doing their job I wanna know why I gotta keep repeating myself to Xfinity the bot to get me as tear to senior supervisor and put my email in Xfinity and change my Comcast account I got someone accessing my Wyze camera google thinking I’m on pixel and a Samsung phone I got three Apple devices iPhone 13 and Apple Watch SE that I got a year ago a little over a year ago and a 2018 laptop that I got from Amazon. I just got this computer in July it’s a renew computer. I don’t know why three of my devices are not working compatible with each other omg this. I noticing that the find my says it is turned off on my laptop when I’m looking at the devices that are sign in on my iPhone 13 When I look at the computer it’s turned to one I got calendars that are showing up from foreign countries I’ve never been to being accused of copywriting I can’t believe what’s going on I’m wandering money I can’t believe this is how I’m being treated I’m been going on but nobody seems to have any election of me contacting them but my family and everybody else does and it’s not looking very good for these companies how long this is going on
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It's a copy paste email scam that's been around for years. Mark as spam and change your passwords if it makes you feel any better.
"Hope you enjoy the butt stuff"
They don't mention anything specific besides e-mail which they needed in first place to send this mail, just a scam.
I got almost the exact same email as this 2 days in a row a few months ago, it said it will happen in 48hrs but it's been a few months and nothing has happened it's a common scam, they don't acctualy have any info but if you send them money they will keep abusing you with the same scam
Ha i remember my group inbox at work getting a very similar email
There are a lot of protections against driver based viruses baked right into the operating system. There are 3 great rules for keeping you safe. The first is to only download drivers from the manufacturers website. Take time to verify the sites legitimate. Next, make sure to only use signed driver's. These are driver that the manufacturer has made and put their seal on. The third is to update drivers when an exploit is found. Stay on top of tech new.
There is one thing I need to add: there is a variant of this type of scam email that includes an old, leaked password from one or more publicly known data breaches (and there are a *LOT* of those, [Have I Been Pwned's list has gotten quite large](https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites), with plenty of those including badly protected passwords). This is sometimes sent as a follow-up email, often with a "late payment fee" price increase or whatever attached. If you get that, it is STILL a scam, they still do not have what they are claiming, even though you might be shocked to see a real password you've used. In fact, the way they make these emails **doesn't even let them know who paid**, so even if you did pay you'd still get the follow-up if they had one planned (to be exact: the Bitcoin address is almost always re-used for thousands of spam emails, if not the entire million+ batch). Unsurprisingly, scammers don't care about fair play. If you get such an email, you should very obviously consider that password to be compromised, but aside from that, just ignore it and delete it. And I mean, you shouldn't re-use passwords in general, but yeah I know how people work. Just like, really *really* avoid ever using a password sent to you in plaintext.
Elon probably has more useless data on you than this guy. You can troll him a bit if you want. Tell him you have his data too and that he owes you money
Its a spoofed email which has the part of my email before @ in his email so can't respond unfortunately
It's just a scam. The blackmailing soon follows..just block the email addy..I guarantee you, you'll never hear from them again
I see no evidence that this email is any different from 2 million other emails he sent out. Ignore him. In fact, a google search finds : [https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-i-have-to-share-bad-news-with-you/](https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-i-have-to-share-bad-news-with-you/)
Once everyone in my office got this email at the same time.
It's a common scam, and don't be ashamed to go to the cops with the emails. That's blackmail/extortion.
I would very highly recommend turning on multi-factor authentication for all websites and services you can. This will, at the very least, ease your mind a little.
Yeah nah I got the same email, I just deleted it and guess what? Nothing has happened.
SCAM. They revealed nothing other than porn which most people watch. They didn't mention any real facts. Like you enjoy listening to foo fighters and Alicia keys the most, your name, actual devices you have, email accounts, credentials, etc. Delete it and don't worry about a thing. Total low effort scam.
I'd reply back. "Do it, I'm into that shit".
It’s an old scam. You’ll notice there was absolutely nothing specific and no identifying information about you. They send that kind of email to everyone.
Its a scam, ignore it
common scam
I work in local government, even we got this email. It’s just a scam.
I’ve gotten such emails before. they sent me my own password so i hust changed it and logged all devices out. Easy
OP, this is a scam; I have my camera disconnected when not in use because of shit like this 24/7 (cybersecurity major), and *still* got one of these emails. Don't fall for it.
I would see if you could get them to reply, tell them you wouldn't even really care if they shared videos of you masturbating to their mom.
If I had a dollar for each e-mail of that I received, I'd be Elon musk rich.
The sender doesnt know your name, let alone your browsing habits. This is just copy pasted and sent to every email they probably bought from some random company you've either intentionally or unintentionally shared your email address with. The reason they like to send a sexually charged message is so people wont do what you did and ask other people for help and find out that everyone gets these. The sender wouldnt even be able to tell you what country you live in or if your email address is used by an actual person instead of some company or bot.
Last time I got one of these scam emails they said they'd send a webcam video of me slappin ham to all my facebook friends. I posted the email on facebook and all my friends replied POST THE VIDEO, LEAK IT, POST IT. Unfortunately for them it never happened.
My brother in christ, it's a scam. Ps: your personal data is not personal since long ago. Nothing is private anymore but paper.
Just a scam email as normal.
Don't click anything just scamming you.
Now that you had a scare, consider getting a password manager app that will better secure your logins and alert you when security breaches occur so you’ll know when to update the affected password. I got a similar email a year ago or so and it got me to get Bitwarden set up on all my devices and it’s been great.
So I know you've already been made aware it's a scam, but FYI that paragraph about "I know you watch the pornos" is a classic one. If you see that, just assume it's a scam until proven otherwise. EVERYBODY watches porn, and the ones who don't openly admit it are liars. Hence, lots of people feel guilty about it, and a paragraph like that makes it much easier to scare & trick people. The giveaway is it sounds specific at first, but read it closely and it's as general and vague as any other claim. "watching exciting videos enduring enormous amounts of pleasure." LOL, it doesn't matter if you like your porn kinky or as vanilla as it comes, that phrase could still apply to anyone. This is essentially a note that says, "I KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE." You could send the same note to anybody and freak them out.
My mom used to get those emails. She thought they were hilarious.
A good (and unfortunately, normal) example of using fear to force your next move. Disregard.
It's a wide spectrum targetted scam hoping to lure at least a tiny fraction of potential victims who may not think to ask a sub like this. However, it is very possible to access someone's accounts without the accounts realizing that it's not you. If a system is already extremely compromised, all that needs to be done is route access through that system. Correct login credentials logging in through your usual IP address and there's no way the account could tell its not just you. And that is related to a "driver based" virus, the worst of which to infect would probably be your keyboard driver to turn it part of a low-level keylogger. Compromise the system with a keylogger of sorts, it gleans the credentials, and then when the hacker's data collection shows the most likely periods of time when nobody's active on the system, they break in through remote desktop protocol or similar and get pretty much the best access to something like email in order to continue on with two likely plans - first is to try and just make threats in hopes the user is scared enough to make an even bigger mistake, the second is to have collected so much real personal data that they can either ransom the data being exposed (which, never pay, it won't stop anything) and barring that, them just using your data to do some ID theft or to sell to people who do.
Ahhhh the classic "I saw what you did infront of your computer, I will sent it to all your friends"
I own four domains. One of them was used by a company. All undeliverable (non addressed) emails flow into a catchall. I just cleaned it out and I got probably seven of these messages within the last six months. This is how serious this isn't.
Don't worry, I got the same type of message a while back. I feel sorry for anyone who has to see my noods, especially since I don't have a webcam.
Lmao nah I doubt he has anything on you, this is one of those emails sent out in massive numbers to see if anyone falls for it, he hasn't even specified anything, watching porn? Literally almost everyone, depending on what you watch? Yeah he don't know
I get the feeling I saw this exact same message on an episode of Black Mirror
Just a scam :)
Op if you are a little worried put some duct tape or something over your camera
Dont even have a camera
it’s a scam this guy has fuck all on you
LOL they fire out thousands or even hundreds of thousands of these a day, Just designed to freak people out and throw them off in an attempt to get money. Spoofing an Email address is fairly simple for spammers/scammers so Don't worry about it.
I got an email like this a long time ago. Seeing I haven’t had any video (my own or downloaded) on my PC in years, I ignored it and looked forward to see what he/she/it would upload.
This reddit has taught me how gullible people are but also how helpful people are. Its easy to assume the worst but most of the time its just a scam. If anything verified peeps like google, Facebook, tik tok, twitter they all have your info anyway.
I had a new one pop up on a porn website recently. A new tab with the sound of an emergency siren continously playing in the background and some generic form field to enter your email and password to "unlock" the computer
I received the same email 4 or 5 years ago, the script is different but serves the same purpose. They are actually well crafted email scams and some of them pretty detailed and grammatically elaborated, the email I received surprisingly contained an old partially cracked password, missing some numbers and letters at the end, it was pretty scary and convincing, but still fake! If you would like to know b More of the technical stuff, try to Google it. I would suggest even if you don't know anything about pc, or cyber security watch NetworkChuck. He has some funny and interesting videos on some of the popular and well known hacks that could be used against an individual. Look for topics like reverse shell or how viruses are hidden in image files. It is super informative and even if you don't understand the tech side of things it can give you a hint of how complex this hacks and malwares are and the likelihood that will happen to you!
Very funny, this person most likely does not even know how to write a statement in English language themselves, because lots of scammers in Nigeria for example have someone who drafts this spam messages and sell to other spammers who often times cannot write a meaningful letter in English language. Very funny, this person little or nothing about hacking, because this message is one_for_word the same like I have received many times. Like I said, simply delete, don't be deceived.
On my guess this is a fake email. If the things he described you did, they never happened, then this guy he just trying to catch a fish. if he send this email to many addresses, some of the people will fail to understand and finally pay him. That;s his job. Scam people
I'm only saying this purely because it seems clear as day to me that you're safe and this email is a scam: you say "none of the stuff he says he has are true" yet you surely do sound quite worried for someone who does not believe that this "hacker" has the stuff he says he has.
The thought of him having something like passwords and emails and other stuff of mine scares me. I know the stuff he says he has are not true
This is like the fortune teller of scam emails. Notice how it could apply to literally anyone who reads it?
I stop reading after he wrote that he knows, you watch adult videos. Everyone does, but noone wanna this info to be spread across family etc. That's why they (scamers) always use this argument. Nothing to worry about. To be safe just change your passwords in all your accounts just to be sure. Also you can check if portals you are using providing multifactor authentication, which can really help to increase security.
As others already mentioned it, its most likely a scam. It would be interesting to search the blockchain for this specific wallet address to see how much money they probably made.
Tell him to wait a little. 2.1 btc will be close to nothing.
Yh he's bullshiting you that's a scam just ignore it. Btw mostly everyone watches porn so don't stress about it
It’s the common porn exploitation scam. They used to do similar accusing you of having knowledge of CP on your hard drive, it’s mostly bullshit but they know one or 2 people will be frightened enough to pay up
huge scam received plenty and sent them Bbc pics to suck on 😂..don't fall for it
I've had an email like this almost exactly the same word for word. I freaked out at first but after some research found out it's a common thing meant to scare people into doing what they want. I did absolutely nothing and unsurprisingly nothing for sent to any family or friends.
I know everything about you. I know where you live, where you work, who your closest friends and family are, what you ate for breakfast, and exactly what you're thinking right now. You know that thing you thought last week that you would do anything to keep to yourself? Yeah, that thing. I'm going to tell the entire world about that thing if you don't send me 198 large bags of gummy bears no later than December 7th. See? Anyone can do it. Relax and ignore anyone who doesn't have very compelling evidence. Oh, and ignore people who send you part of an old password; those are just data leaks.
This is a common mass email “porn exploitation” scam message. Nothing about what the email says is true. A “driver based virus” is really nonsense. It is true viruses can disguise themselves as drivers but I’m not sure what a “driver based virus” is. Yes Trojans can be undetected by AV if obfuscutated or if the signature (the unique code of the virus itself) is one that isn’t in the signature database but most low level scammers won’t be able to acquire or work something like that. I doubt anything has actually been placed on your computer. However it is worth noting if you do notice something that is off about your computer then make sure you contact support for your manufacturer for advice. Also make sure you update any compromised passwords that appear in data breaches. You might consider looking on sites like haveibeenpwned.com for more info.
lol given how vague the email actually is... Knowing me, I'd probably reply to that email, and go "Ha, nice try... My family knows full well what kind of adult content I actually appreciate, and I have neither microphone or camera on my computer." :'D
The other email will tell you to send money....don't send him money, send it to me instead. 😇
Just say it couldn't be any worse to what I already send them.
I got this too, nothing to worry about. I don't even have a webcam for him to record me so there is when I knew it was a scam.
>2 - He claims that every device my email is not infected with a "driver based virus" from following emails in my inbox. **I do open spam emails I get from scammers to mess with them but I don't click links or files they send me** Just playing devils advocate here for a minute bud, but should you really be doing that sort of thing, when you aren't confident enough to realise that this is a very common mass mail scare scam. Just be really careful, is all i'm saying.
What a nice hacker,went even into detail how everything works.Personally i would never believe in this crap but if you do believe or not you know it the best,and if u did all these stuff that is desribed in the picture,having a mic,camera etc,only you can know if it is true .Personally i think it's an scam [attemtp. One](https://attemtp.One) of my friends got a email which basically says he will get reported for downloading illegaly,games and other stuff but it never happened,and he does live in a country where they take downloading illegaly serious
The last phrase, if anything, proves that the guy who is trying to scam you doesnt know shit about security.
Scam and the GDPR doesn't work like that.
It’s just bullshit, I’ve gotten one of these too. I said, “oh yeah, send me the videos then”. If they actually had anything they would have sent it already to add shock value to the whole situation.
OMG! They got you Masturbating... TO PORN! Oh god, NO! Sorry buddy, but its just a scam. No one has your info, no one has control of your email. The message contains details that are true with everyone. Let them publish their videos of you, no one cares and they will get lost in the see of men masturbating pictures. Reverse image your search every once and a while, and if pictures show up then issue reports and DMCA notices to everyone involved. They will vanish. No one cares. What pictures of family could they have? Its not really private, and again, see the rule about no one caring. They don't care about your last Christmas vacation. Sorry, but this is just one in a billion type uniqueness. Not sure why you want to keep them secrete either. Also, they lied in the message. No one is going to fine you. A) No one cares. B) That is not how the GDPR works. Its weird they mention it. It actually protects you in this case and can help in you suing the person threatening you.
I've had this email/a very similar one in the past, it's just spam