Blackmailing emails are still circulating in which fraudsters threaten to publish spicy videos of the user.

The victim is supposed to pay Bitcoins to avoid publication of the material. However, there is no evidence that the blackmailer actually has such masturbation videos.

The email is structured something like this:

Hello!

You may not know me and you're probably wondering why you're getting this email, right?
At that moment I hacked your account…. , your password is...

This gives me full access to your device! (I sent you an email from your account)

In fact, I put a malware on the website for adult videos (porn material) and you know what, you visited this website to have fun (you know what I mean).
While you were watching video clips,
your internet browser starts as RDP (Remote Desktop) with a keylogger that gives me access to your screen and also your webcam.
Immediately after installation, my software collected all your contacts from your messenger, social networks as well as email

What have I done?
I made a double screen video.
The first part shows the video you watched (you have good and sometimes strange taste), and the second part shows the recording from your webcam. exactly what should you do?

Well, I think $600 is a fair price for our little secret.
You will make the payment via Bitcoin (if you don't know this, search Google for "buy Bitcoin"). BTC Address: 16nFVusdKWSRwXM3Ch56wQeTib3ajXxJuQ
(It is sensitive, so copy and paste)

Note:
You have 2 days to make the payment.
(I have a specific pixel in this email message and at this moment I know that you have read this email message).

If I don't receive the BitCoins, I will definitely send your video recording to all your contacts, including family members, employees, etc.

However, if I get paid, I will immediately destroy the video.

This is the non-negotiable offer, so don't waste my personal time and yours with all kinds of stupidity.

Next time – be careful!
Bye!

The fact check:

This is not the first time that users have received such emails. The police also warned against this scam. Most of the time these are empty threats. So far there has only been one similar case in which a user was actually blackmailed .

Should I pay the blackmailer?

It is not advisable to pay the blackmailer immediately. In addition to not relying on a criminal's word, any user who gives in to such a demand qualifies as a potential "permanent victim." to report such emails and other blackmail attempts immediately to the nearest police station .

The LKA Lower Saxony has also published some links where you can check for yourself whether your own email address appears in leaked databases:

But be careful: The pages do not claim to be complete, and leaked databases often only become known months or even years later, so unfortunately you cannot be completely safe if your own email address does not appear in the databases.

In most cases, such emails are pure attempts at fraud and the blackmailer does not have any juicy video footage of his victim.

Unfortunately, you can never completely rule out this possibility, so it makes sense to definitely report the blackmail to the police!

Tip: If you want to be on the safe side, you can cover your device's camera with a small sticker and remove it if necessary. Good virus protection should still be a high priority.

The Watchlist Internet writes the following on this topic:

How should you respond to the email?

It's best if you move the blackmail message to your spam/junk folder, because its contents are fictional: your computer is not infected with malware and there are no masturbation videos of you. Moving the email to the spam/junk folder will ensure that you no longer find similar messages in your regular inbox in the future.

How do you recognize the blackmail email?

The blackmail letter is fabricated and dubious. You can see this from the following points, among others:

  • The content of the message is incorrect because, for example, strangers do not have a monitoring program installed on your computer. You can find out by checking for malware with an up-to-date antivirus program. It will not find any threat of this kind.
  • The letter is impersonal: “Hello, dear domain user”. This shows you that this is a standardized message that is sent to a large group of recipients. This is another indication that the message content may not be correct.
  • The email doesn't go into any details. For example, it does not name a specific video that you supposedly watched. This means there is no reason for you to worry.

Why is the email from your own address?

The criminal senders of the message use an entry in their email to fake a different sender address than is actually the case. To do this, they manipulate the code of their message and take advantage of the fact that the protocol for sending emails does not check whether the specified sender address matches the actual one.

For this reason, this circumstance does not have to bother you.

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