Email Scam

[HungryHippos]

They're getting ever more elaborate. Had this one come in at 14:57 today.

Had the same one at my work email address, exactly the same wording and request. Thanks Symantec.cloud for blocking the death threat!

Also saw a report today from a customer who had the same thing.

In my example it was from an @bol.com.br address, it looks like that is a user on a free email service from a Brazilian provider.

 

[Malevolence]

Mine was from @mail.bg which appears to be a Bulgarian free email service.

 

[LeeUK]

Ive been getting a lot of spam lately asking me to click to confirm my unsubscribe. What a clever way to confirm if it's a live email address or not. Heh

 

[Diagro]

I had loads of spam this past few weeks....

 

[wolfie138]

It's a scam.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...blackmail-scam-attempt-email-wat-do.18825244/

no kidding, thanks for the revelation

 

[wolfie138]

Option number three, send me your severed hands by Royal Mail 1st Class Recorded Delivery, thus allowing me to collect my bounty without the need to kill you.

if you sever them, how do you wrap them up and post them? :-/

 

[wolfie138]

"I've a unique pixel within this message"
a what now?

 

[CliffyG]

One of my clients had the text in the OP yesterday but it had his personal password mentioned in the first line.

 

[FortuitousFluke]

if you sever them, how do you wrap them up and post them? :-/

You'd probably need to phone a friend to assist, I recommend dialing before you chop off your hands. I have emailed Apple to see if Iphone touch screens will register stumps but I fear it's unlikely.

 

[dan958]

Note: You now have one day to make the payment.

The method to get bitcoin may take a few days so do not procrastinate.

So which one is it?!

 

[Yaayuh!]

They're getting ever more elaborate. Had this one come in at 14:57 today.

Dude, i got that exact one this morning

 

[Freakbro]

They're getting ever more elaborate. Had this one come in at 14:57 today.

Hah, I just got that one today!

 

[Liquidfox]

One of my clients had the text in the OP yesterday but it had his personal password mentioned in the first line.

One of our clients got one of those, except it contained a word in the subject which so happened to be their Windows password. Sure enough, turned out that the user was using the same password in multiple locations and one of those was part of a security breach.

 

[Dav4]

Black gaffa tape over the webcam and no social media accounts at all = sorted.

 

[wolfie138]

actually, i think if you just hosted the files yourself you could make a ton of money from subscriptions from people who get off on watching other people get off. you could incorporate video reviews a la youtube "reaction" vids

 

[Bonjour]

I did play around with remotely activating a MacBook's webcam a number of years ago. It was surprisingly straightforward. Not sure you'd be able to do it with a drive-by attack, though.