Wanker of the Day

I found this lurking in my SPAM folder from several days back.

Hello!
I’m a member of an international hacker group.

As you could probably have guessed, your account ******* was hacked, I sent message you from it.

Now I have access to you accounts! You still do not believe it?
So, this is your password: ****** , right?

Within a period from July 5, 2018 to September 21, 2018, you were infected by the virus we’ve created, through an adult website you’ve visited.
So far, we have access to your messages, social media accounts, and messengers.
Moreover, we’ve gotten full damps of these data.

We are aware of your little and big secrets…yeah, you do have them. We saw and recorded your doings on porn websites. Your tastes are so weird, you know..

But the key thing is that sometimes we recorded you with your webcam, syncing the recordings with what you watched!
I think you are not interested show this video to your friends, relatives, and your intimate one…

Transfer $700 to our Bitcoin wallet: 1DuDhqSWdmRxJjaRRSpa9wRH7yf9ncgw56
I guarantee that after that, we’ll erase all your “data” 😀

A timer will start once you read this message. You have 48 hours to pay the above-mentioned amount.

Your data will be erased once the money are transferred.
If they are not, all your messages and videos recorded will be automatically sent to all your contacts found on your devices at the moment of infection.

You should always think about your security. We hope this case will teach you to keep secrets.
Take care of yourself.

These feeble attempts at blackmail seem to be doing the rounds – I believe Grandad had one a few weeks back. Clearly my data was in some sort of data dump that has been traded on the dark web or somewhere from one of the many leaks that have occurred as the password was a partial and was correct – albeit an old one that I’ve not used for a number of years. Even so, I’ve gone through checking and changing passwords just to be sure. Nothing  untoward was found, nor did I expect to, because spoofing an email header is one thing – hacking into my email account is another, which of course, they haven’t. Nor have they infected my computer with their magic virus that hacks into everything and gives them my videos [what videos? – Ed] and messages. I’ve sent the email along with the headers to plod – for all the good it will do. Also, the magic timer is amusing if nothing else – if it’s supposed to scare me, it has failed.

Oh, and I won’t be paying the blackmail demand, either. Wankers.

16 Comments

  1. These are real. Proof: Grandad’s says “you have got a good taste haha”. Which I would expect to be true. Whereas yours says “Your tastes are so weird, you know”. That sounds spot on. So they’ve got you, haven’t they?

  2. Sadly many fall for this blackmail and pay even if they’re sure they are innocent. #metoo etc have made “Guilty until proven innocent” de-facto msm reporting & twaterati belief.

    Passwords: yep, found my ID & Pwd on a dark-web database, rather worrying.

    • Yes, this is why I’ve publicised this. If anyone does a search, hopefully this will reassure them. These charlatans are relying on a combination of lack of technical know-how and some good old fashioned cold reading. It works for mediums, so why not them?

  3. I was going to say “Thanks for the heads-up” But perhaps I would get another blackmail message .
    Have you thought that you could have been a victim of Mr Juncker or Mr Barnier’s office trying out a new negotiating tactic ?

  4. These seem to be working off a very old hack of LinkedIn from years back. The first thing to do is to change the password on all accounts which used the one that they know about; it is also good security practice to use different passwords for everything.

    This then leaves you with a long list of usernames and passwords which need to be in an encrypted password safe and possibly written down and locked in a safe somewhere.

    The other thing is never, ever have a webcam pointed at you from a computer and turned on. If such a thing is built into a monitor, then either disable it, stick foil tape over it or best of all don’t buy such a dangerous monitor in the first place. This does tend to give a little more peace of mind; if the blackmail video of you cannot have happened, then the rest is likely bogus too.

    • I was wondering which hack it was – the Linkedin one makes sense. Yup, long passwords, different for each account. I had long since stopped using the one they have found.

  5. Welcome to the club!

    I have been receiving them for quite a while. None have mentioned my “weird tastes” though [they must have missed the one with the donkey and the pineapple]. My prices have risen to $3,000 so you have a way to go yet.

    I’m still waiting for my friends to be amused…….

    • I had another couple today showing the same details and telling me what my email password is (oh, no, it isn’t). They are still only pitching for $800 or so, though. Clearly my tastes aren’t worth as much as yours.

  6. “Your data will be erased once the money are transferred.”

    All your base are belong to us?

    • Interestingly I read recently that they deliberately use bad spelling and punctuation in order to weed out the more cynical amongst us. Someone who doesn’t pick up on it is more likely to fall for it. Well that’s the theory…

  7. I got one of these twice. the first wanted $3,500. The second one? I never got that far and it was in my junk folder. It was a password I no longer use, very old. I think it was a breach of LinkedIn or some other social media site. It was obvious from the content it was a pack of lies and a rather poor attempt at blackmail. I think these nutters think everyone on-line is as vile as they are.

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