Bitcoin Extortion Scam - Bitcoin Wallet: 1BdC6efmCs9tEkcRiVELuKGHtrKtCni118

[Jokerr]

From: Your own email address
Date: 17 September 2024, 4:19
Subject: Payment from your account.

Greetings</img>
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I have to share bad news with you.</img>
Approximately few months ago I have gained access to your devices, which you use for internet browsing.</img>
After that, I have started tracking your internet activities.</img>
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Here is the sequence of events: </img>
Some time ago I have purchased access to email accounts from hackers (nowadays, it is quite simple to purchase such thing online).</img>
Obviously, I have easily managed to log in to your email account (redacted@redacted.com).</img>
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When I hacked into your mail_account, your password was: [redacted]
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One week later, I have already installed Trojan virus to Operating Systems of all the devices that you use to access your email.</img>
In fact, it was not really hard at all (since you were following the links from your inbox emails).</img>
All ingenious is simple. =)</img>
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This software provides me with access to all the controllers of your devices (e.g., your microphone, video camera and keyboard).</img>
I have downloaded all your information, data, photos, web browsing history to my servers.</img>
I have access to all your messengers, social networks, emails, chat history and contacts list.</img>
My virus continuously refreshes the signatures (it is driver-based), and hence remains invisible for antivirus software.</img>
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Likewise, I guess by now you understand why I have stayed undetected until this letter...</img>
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While gathering information about you, I have discovered that you are a big fan of adult websites.</img>
You really love visiting porn websites and watching exciting videos, while enduring an enormous amount of pleasure.</img>
Well, I have managed to record a number of your dirty scenes and montaged a few videos, which show the way you ma*tur*ate and reach orgasms.</img>
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If you have doubts, I can make a few clicks of my mouse and all your videos will be shared to your friends, colleagues and relatives.</img>
I have also no issue at all to make them available for public access.</img>
I guess, you really don't want that to happen, considering the specificity of the videos you like to watch, (you perfectly know what I mean) it will cause a true catastrophe for you.</img>
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Let's settle it this way:</img>
You transfer $1650 USD to me (in bitcoin equivalent according to the exchange rate at the moment of funds transfer), and once the transfer is received, I will delete all this dirty stuff right away.</img>
After that we will forget about each other. I also promise to deactivate and delete all the harmful software from your devices. Trust me, I keep my word.</img>
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This is a fair deal and the price is quite low, considering that I have been checking out your profile and traffic for some time by now.</img>
In case, if you don't know how to purchase and transfer the bitcoins - you can use any modern search engine.</img>
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Here is my bitcoin wallet: 1BdC6efmCs9tEkcRiVELuKGHtrKtCni118</img>
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You have less than 48 hours from the moment you opened this email (precisely 2 days).</img>
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Things you need to avoid from doing:</img>
**Do not reply me (I have created this email inside your inbox and generated the return address).</img>
**Do not try to contact police and other security services. In addition, forget about telling this to you friends. If I discover that (as you can see, it is really not so hard, considering that I control all your systems) - your video will be shared to public right away. </img>
**Don't try to find me - it is absolutely pointless. All the cryptocurrency transactions are anonymous.</img>
**Don't try to reinstall the OS on your devices or throw them away. It is pointless as well, since all the videos have already been saved at remote servers.</img>
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Things you don't need to worry about:</img>
**That I won't be able to receive your funds transfer.</img>
- Don't worry, I will see it right away, once you complete the transfer, since I continuously track all your activities (my trojan virus has got a remote-control feature, something like TeamViewer).</img>
**That I will share your videos anyway after you complete the funds transfer.</img>
- Trust me, I have no point to continue creating troubles in your life. If I really wanted that, I would do it long time ago! </img>
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Everything will be done in a fair manner!</img>
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One more thing... Don't get caught in similar kind of situations anymore in future!</img>
My advice - keep changing all your passwords on a frequent basis</img>

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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.