They Don’t Stop, Do They?

March 25, 2020 Longrider Personal Stuff 12

Actually, I placed a virus on the xXx vids (sex sites) site & guess what, you visited this web site to have fun. While you were viewing videos, your web browser started working as a Remote Desktop having a keylogger which gave me accessibility to your display and also cam recording.
Just after that, my software collected all your contacts from your Messenger, social networks, and email.
***** is one of your passwords.
if you send me 997USD as a donation through Bitcoin, I will erase the recording immediately.
(search for in Google “how to buy bitcoin”). my BTC Address: 3LK96Z4qqD7JQ9F9ii4NUAgFGniCeqZjYd
If I don’t get the BitCoins in 24hrs, I will definately send your video to all of your contacts, don’t reply to this email it’s hacked. EJJC

It’s an old password I stopped using a decade ago, so I’m hardly likely to break a sweat – not even putting it in the email title worries me. I thought this scam had died a death due to lack of interest (not to mention potential victims pointing and laughing at this feeble attempt at blackmail), but clearly not. There’s always someone hoping that people will be scared enough to cough up. Anyway, he can fuck off.

12 Comments

  2. “… I will definately send your video…”

    He could definitely use some spelling lessons.

  3. I thought this scam had died a death due to lack of interest (not to mention potential victims pointing and laughing at this feeble attempt at blackmail), but clearly not. There’s always someone hoping that people will be scared enough to cough up. Anyway, he can fuck off.

    Yes, I was similarly affected (old password long dead) and that password was only used with Forbes.com which was hacked in the distant past.

    These recently flared up again about 2 weeks ago, so I put an entry in my spam detection to automatically delete anything with {username}:{password} in the subject header and that has done the trick.

    More an annoyance than anything serious, but it does show the value of moving to complex passwords and not using the same password in more than one place. I use LastPass to manage them all.

    • I can only presume that there are enough idiots who don’t understand Internet searching who cough up, thereby making it sufficiently lucrative.

      • The good news is, looking at the blockchain, that bitcoin address has received 0.00 bitcoins. The crook may be making less money than the cost of the bandwidth and electricity needed to send the emails.

        • Bitcoin is probably the biggest flaw in the scam. For most people it’s a bit of a mystery and too much bother. It will certainly slow people down who might be in a bit of a panic. By which time, they will have had enough time to do a search and realise that this is simply a standard email scam.

          Meanwhile, it’s still at zero.

          • Indeed. Is the sort of person who is taken in by this likely to have any idea how to pay in bitcoin?

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