Bitcoin Extortion Scam - Bitcoin Wallet: 16VeexDh6nu16h6noGPScmmf4qDdhHTShy

Post by **Jokerr** » 05 July 2024

From: Your own email address
Date: 5 July 2024, 4:19
Subject: I own very sensitive information about your web activities

Greetings! 
 
First of all, let me tell you, you are one of a kind! 
It is hard to impress me because I have seen a lot in my career as a professional hacker but now I am really impressed. 
 
I will get straight to the point. Listen to me carefully. 
 
Several months ago, 
I was able to hack your operating system and gain full access to all your devices and accounts including messengers, social media profiles, etc. 
 
If you still do not believe me, here is a password to your account on the day when I logged in into it: 
 
I hope, now you begin to get my message. 
It goes without saying that I gained access to what you type via keylogger, your internet activity and webcam streaming. 
All of this was possible due to your frequent visits to adult websites infected with harmful malware. 
In other words, you were under my microscope for many days like some kind of a little bug. 
The only difference is that unlike you there is no bug in the world who like to watch pervert porn. 
 
Yes, you understand it right: I was able to see everything on your screen and record video and audio streams of your camera and microphone. 
All of these records are currently securely saved on my storage as well as a backup copy. 
 
In addition, I also gained access to your confidential information contained in your emails and chat messages. 
 
Probably you are wondering why your antivirus and spyware defender software allowed me to do all of this? 
I am sorry but it's a very stu*id question. All antivirus programs turned into useless s*it quite a long time ago. 
Have you ever heard last years about any "advanced" new technologies in this industry? 
Exactly. Nowadays, developers do not give a flying f**k about your security. Therefore, hackers like me took advantage of it. 
 
The more you know my friend, no need to thank me. 
Maybe with this fresh knowledge, you will be more serious about your internet security and never take it for granted anymore. 
With that out of the way, let's cut to the chase. Using your recordings I made a video compilation, 
which shows on the left side the controversial porn scenes of you happily m*st*rbat*ng to, 
while on the right side it demonstrates the video you were watching at that moment.. ^.^ 
 
There are only 48 hours left since the moment you receive this email until I send this video to all your email and messenger contacts. 
But there is more, guess what? I can also make public all your emails and chat history. 
 
You are sick f**k in love with freaky adult content but you are not mentally retarted so I would like to believe, you do not want to let this happen. 
Right? Only the most stu*id man in the world would be happy if his friends, loved ones and colleagues suddenly knew about something like this. 
 
In other words, there is no way back. It cannot be fixed. However, there is a way forward that both of us can benefit from. 
I am a reasonable guy and have no intention to ruin your life for nothing. I'd better like to gain something instead. 
 
Here is your salvation - transfer the Bitcoin equivalent of 1280 USD to my Bitcoin account 
(you can google the process in case you don't know how to do that). 
 
Here is my Bitcoin address: 16VeexDh6nu16h6noGPScmmf4qDdhHTShy 
 
Once I am notified of receiving it, I will delete all those videos and disappear from your life for good. 
As I mentioned, you have only 48 hours to make a transaction after you open this email. 
 
Believe me, I am always one step ahead so no way in hell you could fool me. 
If I discover that you shared this message with others, I will send and publish your videos in no time. 
 
P.S. It's in your power to make it nice for both of us.

EXTORTION SCAM WARNING - PLEASE READ: The above email is an extortion scam that is attempting to extort or blackmail the email recipient while stating that the recipient’s computer has been hacked and infected with Malware, a Trojan virus or by some sort of remote access tool. Thus, the claims made in the above email are totally fake and false and should be completely ignored.

This meaningless email contains only bogus claims stating that the sender of the extortion email has gained access to your computer and/or your computer’s front-facing camera and that the scammer will soon expose some compromising photos and videos of you that they have obtained by hacking your computer. They will further claim that they will send this compromising content onto your friends, family, relatives, work colleagues, etc unless you pay a stated sum of untraceable money to the scammer via Bitcoin within a short period of time, usually within 24-48 hours.

If the extortion scam email that you received appears to have been sent to you from your own email address then it is not actually coming from your own email address, nor has the scammer hacked into your email account. The scammer is simply sending the scam email out from their own email server while using a software script to spoof the sender's email address to match the recipient's email address of whom they are sending the scam email to. A study of the full email headers from the scam email that you received would reveal that the IP address of the scam email is different to your own IP address and that the scam email was actually sent out from a distant email server.

These type of extortion emails sometimes also claim that if you don’t pay the money that is being demanded from you that some of your other personal identity information (or other personal digital content) may also be exposed publicly on social-media platforms and/or that you could be arrested by a law enforcement agency for not complying. Just more lies. But then the scammer will also claim that if you pay them the money that they are demanding that they will immediately delete all of your files/content and information from their computer systems and no longer attempt to extort you any further.

In all instances, all of the above claims are 100% fake lies. Thus, your computer has not been compromised by any such malicious software and the scammer whom is sending these emails does not have any personal content of yours or any access to your computer camera, your personal photos, your personal files or access to any of the information on your computer at all. They are simply bluffing and spoofing while hoping that one might become worried enough to believe their lies.

However, if you were to actually send the scammer any money then they would not know who paid this money into their Bitcoin wallet because Bitcoin payments are anonymous and there is also no way for you to make any direct contact with the scammers to notify them that a payment was made to their Bitcoin wallet. They would also continue to attempt to blackmail and extort you further by demanding additional money from you if there were a way for them to know that a Bitcoin payment made into their Bitcoin wallet had come from you.

Therefore, if you receive such an email as the one above then do not panic, do not worry, do not become stressed, and definitely do not respond to the scammer's demands in any way since their emails are 100% fake and fraudulent. These type of emails are also known as “ScareWare” or “Sextortion” scams and so you should immediately delete these types of emails and ignore the scammer completely if you receive one. Also, typically, these types of extortion scam emails are just sent out randomly, and in bulk to many thousands of random email addresses at one time, thus nobody is specifically targeting you directly. They likely only have access to your email address and no other personal information about you.

Another form of very common ScareWare is when a scammer claims that they are from the FBI, or some other large government or law-enforcement agency, and the scammer is threatening that you will be arrested or charged with a fictitous crime if you don’t send the scammer a certain amount of money within a short period of time. These are again just more lies and fake, empty threats and you should not panic, worry, or respond to the scammer’s email since these emails are also fictitious and fraudulent claims.

If you want to scan your computer for possible Malware or Trojans, which is always good to do as a safety precaution, then you can go to https://malwarebytes.com to download, install and run Malwarebytes to perform a free malware check on your computer for any possible presence of malicious software.

Hitman Pro is another software package which offers a fully functional (30-day free trial) anti-malware program that you can also run on your computer and which cleans malware, viruses, trojans, worms, keyloggers, rootkits, trackers, spyware and more. You can download it here: https://hitmanpro.com

If you are interested to see the status of any Bitcoin wallet, and how much money has been recently transferred in and out of the wallet, then go to https://bitref.com/. Once on the website, enter a Bitcoin wallet address into the box and then it will show you a history of the last 50 payments made in and and out of that Bitcoin wallet.