An interesting email
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Soldato
I dont get this -- is it the fact you don't have a webcam that tipped you off to the obvious ******** in this email or otherwise would you have fallen for it?
Soldato
It's the fact it was supposedly, me looking up NSFW stuff, on a web cam, on my work PC. I think I was one of the first people I knew to get this type of threat email, months ago. I laughed as it's a new tactic that scammers were trying that I'd not had done to me before.
Soldato
I had a hilarious one which was so stupid I thought a friend had sent it as a prank. It started like a normal email, gaining access blah blah but then went on about the sites I visited and was shocked at some of them. The phase the email used was 'I want to say, you are a BIG pervert'. It even ended with 'Do not hold evil, I just do my job. Good Luck' It was so stupid I can't see how anyone would fall for that.
Soldato
but the scary thing is people believe these things. It's frightening. If only there was something obvious in these emails like claiming to have hacked a webcam you dont have to tip-off that it's a scam and everyone would be safe.
Associate
Surely the sender must know that the people that fall for these emails will not have the skills to transfer using btc or know what btc is, as some of them instruct.
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Caporegime
Best wishes!
Soldato
Some poor sods probably kill themselves when they get these emails, personally I wouldn't care if videos of me were circulated, I'd just tell everyone I'd joined the Conservative party so am obviously a ******!
Soldato
I got one of these a while back, although it was worded slightly differently. They wanted $900 or so in bitcoin and it even had a handy link to explain how to buy and send bitcoin.
I knew it was bozwelox, but for a second I got a cold shiver as I never usually have a webcam, but was using a borrowed laptop at the time lol. Then read on and it was an obvious scam with things like "there is a single pixel; embedded in this email that tells me when it has been read, you have 24 hours from this point to pay up". The webcam is now taped over though, just in case
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Caporegime
It's perhaps not the time but A/S/L ?
e: GOD DAMMIT MARK A, I WAS TRYING TO GET A HOOK UP ON THE GO!
e: GOD DAMMIT MARK A, I WAS TRYING TO GET A HOOK UP ON THE GO!
Commissario
I've just had one of these - It was to my Paypal email address which isn't used for anything other than logging in to Paypal. However, checking in 1Password, it seems that a couple of sites I've bought stuff from have used it as a login address. One of those is Banggood which I ordered an antenna analyser from back in early 2017.
Interestingly, this one doesn't quote a password at me and the text itself is on an attachment so it won't be scanned for keywords by spam filters.
Although the from address is my Paypal address, the 'reply to' address is
[email protected] which I'm happy to post here because with a bit of luck, it'll get farmed
My Paypal account is secure and all my passwords are long, complex and unique. I'm not concerned about this at all.
Interestingly, this one doesn't quote a password at me and the text itself is on an attachment so it won't be scanned for keywords by spam filters.
Although the from address is my Paypal address, the 'reply to' address is
[email protected] which I'm happy to post here because with a bit of luck, it'll get farmed
My Paypal account is secure and all my passwords are long, complex and unique. I'm not concerned about this at all.
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That email address has been reported already for bitcoin abuse.
https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/reports/1GVgsTh6j1oh5PUksWQDdiChtsRiWwkR6Q?page=7
Soldato
That is actually possible, at at least it was before emeial clients generally disabled remote content by default, You have a 1x1 pixel image in the html email which is pulled from the senders hosting, the image doesn't actually exist as a file, it get redirected to a script, and the filename (which is a unique random string) is passed to the secript as a variable, the script will in return serve the one pixel image back, then it'll search a database for the unique string which has been stored against the email address it was originally sent to and record it as being read and that the email address is live.
You used to get security utilites which blocked such things along with other privacy invasions, not sure its required now as all email clients will turn off external content unless you speciailly click for it to load it
Commissario
Just noticed I was sent it twice overnight, one did get flagged as junk and the other didn’t.
Strangely received one of these emails today. The password in the email was one i used many years ago but i still use it for a PC I rarely log on to. It doesn't have a mic or camera either. I checked my email login attempts and it looks like 2 days ago they were unsuccessfully trying to logon. Got to love MFA as well
Soldato
I just sent back a picture of my actually cracking one out to "nextdoor neighbour amateur" on pornhub, so at least I could use the wide angle lens on the new iPhone. Didn't get a reply though.
Associate
Tell them that the video was a teaser and youre happy to send more at a cost
Associate
MFA doesnt work, secret code is clearly displayed in browser dev mode and can be used for generating otp with scripts. Got to love MFA as well
On the other side it shows how IT illiterate (did i lliterally mispel this making me a hypnocrit?) these people are.
Soldato
My latest one for the collection.
Have to say, I am curious as to the use of random characters in certain words, like 'perverted' for example. Wonder if it's to circumvent some kind of filter in India, or whatever third world craphole they're in?
Have to say, I am curious as to the use of random characters in certain words, like 'perverted' for example. Wonder if it's to circumvent some kind of filter in India, or whatever third world craphole they're in?