Topic: A redditor is threatening me to send him cryptocurrency. (Read 146 times)

Looking back on life, i, too, used my gmail on my cv. I use that gmail for forums signups.

Now I see how easy it is to get someone's personal info... because cv ends up in Google

I would not bother paying. Because anyone who wanted to know would just Google your reddit name.

Best u can do is create a fake cv with the same usernsme, but different email extention to create some confusion

Yeah, right. He said a new account, you can bet it won't be easily traceable and that the police won't even try.

@OP
I just thought that you may want to goto the scammers section and find those forensic blockchain guys and see what they can find out from the address he sent you. But then again I doubt that will get anywhere either.

yooh, this is serious threat . try to report it to your local police or anyone whos incharge for Cyber crime just report it atleast they got record for you
and be careful out there , try removing your personal data or atleast open a new account if you dont have any sentimental value on that account

Redditors are fags, fuck them.

you did something dumb so you have to pay for it, but don't pay in bitcoin or you will have to over and over. LOL

Your gonna get Doxxed, big deal.

I've been threatened and I found it amusing as I've never tried to hide my identity so I said "Go ahead faggot, I am proud of my life!".

It looks like you have something that still has any relationship with your real identity or that was someone very close to you. If he was from another country and that will be useless to take an action by reporting him to the local police. I think if he was in another sea and you will be safe. But not for your data. I suggest you forget it and then try to take a better action by never try to make anything that has any potential to reveal your identity to the internet.

This is a serious issue. You can try to report him but if he did VPN or even TOR there is high possibility that you can't find who the person is behind reddit account if he really hid who he is well. Honestly I will report it if he continues to harass you then you should constant the authorities. Other than that if he is some kid saying "I have your information", well I don't believe there's much to be afraid of, hopefully he will not use your data for some shady things.

The legal arm may not be useful because the person may not be in your country and that renders the police effort useless.

Try removing your personal details from sites and be careful

Long story short - using my old account on Reddit, I troll posted in one of the cryptocurrency sub-reddits saying how I put nearly my whole life savings into a cryptocurrency coin (obviously I did not, it was just for trolling and entertainment purposes). A day later, a redditor with 0 post history messaged me with the title "Wake Up" listing my full name, address, where I work, ethnicity, some of my general interests based off my post history, etc. and demanded roughly $1800 worth of the coin to be sent to his wallet. I began to lose my mind and freak out like crazy.

At first, I was very curious as how he obtained my personal information but my old reddit account name was the same exact name used for my g-mail account and if you had searched my name, my PDF resume (which had my address on it) from 2 years ago would show up as well as my Linkedin profile. that's when I realized how he got all this info. I told him I was going to direct this message to the police and asked in an aggressive manner what the hell he was going to do about it and he calmly goes on to say, "You'll never find me but I found you. I'll give you another 10 hours to send me it. This is my last message." I'm taking this as a very legitimate threat and debating if I need to take action and seriously report this to the local police? What is the best way to handle this situation?