Extortionate emails are still circulating that claim to have obtained users' juicy material.
As the Mainz police explained in a press release, in the last two days a 49-year-old from Mainz and a 32-year-old from Mainz received emails from an unknown sender.
In both cases it is claimed that there are intimate recordings of the injured party , which are now to be published. In order to prevent this, in both cases a “hush money” of approximately EUR 500 be paid in the form of Bitcoins
In both cases, the injured parties react correctly and do not fall for the attempted blackmail. The investigation is currently ongoing.
Not the first cases
Fraudsters have been trying to blackmail Internet users with this scam for a long time.
Detailed information about the approach and the emails sent can be found under Blackmail by email: Send me 1500 euros as “hush money”, otherwise… and Email blackmail: “I managed to install spyware on your PC” .
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