Bitcoin Extortion Scam - Bitcoin Wallet: 1BaobaRFd1NfNQ2GSHXBFvc1hjffhaVr2V

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From: Your own email address
Date: 3 August 2024, 4:19
Subject: >>> Your account is hacked. Your data is stolen. Learn how to regain access.

Hi,

I am a hacker, and I have successfully gained access to your operating system.
I also have full access to your account.

At the time of hacking your account had this password: xxxxxxxx

I've been watching you for a few months now.

The fact is that your computer has been infected with malware through an adult site that you visited.
If you are not familiar with this, I will explain.
Trojan Virus gives me full access and control over a computer or other device.
This means that I can see everything on your screen, turn on the camera and microphone, but you do not know about it.
I also have access to all your contacts and all your correspondence.

Why did your antivirus not detect malware?
Answer: The malware I used is driver-based, I update its signatures every 4 hours. Hence your antivirus is unable to detect its presence.
I made a video showing how you satisfy yourself in the left half of the screen, and the right half shows the video you were watching at the time.

With one mouse click, I can send this video to all your emails and contacts on your social networks.
I can also make public all your e-mail correspondence and chat history on the messengers that you use.

If you don't want this to happen, transfer $1190 in Bitcoin equivalent to my Bitcoin address (if you do not know how to do this, just search "buy bitcoin" on Google).

My Bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) is: 1BaobaRFd1NfNQ2GSHXBFvc1hjffhaVr2V

After confirming your payment, I will delete the video immediately, and that's it. You will never hear from me again.
I will give you 50 hours (more than 2 days) to pay. I will get a notice, when you open this email, and the timer will start.
Filing a complaint somewhere does not make sense because this email cannot be tracked like my Bitcoin address.

I never make any mistakes.
If I find that you have shared this message with someone else, the video will be immediately distributed.

Best regards!

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.