Topic: Another scam email attempt (Read 329 times)

It's just their usual copy and paste random mails sent out. Whoever fits in their description begins to get unnecessarily agitated, thinking the sender knows them. You see why it's said that only the guilty are afraid? Anyone who isn't into any of that shitty stuff described will just conclude it was a wrongly sent email and then move on. For me, I've a bad habit of not clicking on links; especially if I ain't expecting anything from such sites. I killed my curiosity a long time ago on stuff like that. I don't get curious to find out stuff from random strangers asking me to click on stuff. Nope, it doesn't work with me. Again, I seldomly check my junk folder. I only check on occasion I'm expecting mails that haven't delivered and the sender insists they've sent it.

Blackmailing via social media and other platforms for ransom is very old trick but how it's still persist for this long and they also evolved to certain level to convince a commoner because someone with a mobile could believed this and send money in a hurry and don't forget if you ever really fall into such situation its better to take legal action then paying ransom because the scammer will never stop asking until they drain all your bank balance.

What do you mean by targeted? because if we're talking about scam emails, changing your password won't minimize them. In fact, once your data is out there, there's no going back.

or are you worried about people bruteforcing their way into your email and its connected accounts? if so...  let's say your email and password from example.com was leaked, then the perpetrators would easily be able to access those associated accounts that are using the same leaked password or easily guessable ones.

So you should be fine long as you maintain unique and strong password for each of your account (generated thru a password generator). and if you can, pair them with a secure 2fa method like TOTP, that way, the perp wouldn't be able to do anything using the mentioned leaked data.

However note that scammers would still be able to send you phishing emails hoping to catch you off guard. I would also look into any weak points of websites you use such as being able to reset your password using SMS codes/2fa which has been pretty insecure.

One commendable thing that you do and everyone needs to have is a main email address for serious things and other email addresses for other miscellaneous businesses because  you cant be to sure with some of these services out there.

Btw I have received such  emails in the past and funny thing is after several years of using my email address without receiving any sort of spam, you find that after signing up for a service here... you miraculously start receiving  all these kind of spam messages, claim your 0.07 btc , you  won ABC , verify your account  to claim your prize and i wonder if these platform's are compromised or they sell our data to third-parties The digital world has too many sharks trying to harvest our data, we need to be careful out here!!!

I use multiple emails depending on the use cases I need them for. But spam has a way of digging through nevertheless. And in some cases, you don't have to be the one that is responsible for getting spam emails. Anyone from your contacts can catch something and spread it to everyone in their address books and the people they have emailed in the past.

For example, you suddenly notice spam in your work email despite using a different computer only for work and no other online activities. Talking with your colleagues, they might report the same problems. It's enough for one person to slip up and you all start receiving the same penis enlargement pills. Particularly the women.

That's how scammers work. They always lure potential victims with offers of large prizes, then direct potential victims to follow the steps provided to click on the link attached to the email. Always remind people that there are no big prizes that are obtained for free without any effort being made, to get prizes from social media campaigns you have to work, especially when it comes to big prizes.
Ignoring the contents of the email and then marking it as spam is the right step to prevent scammers from snaring you.

Fortunately for me, I haven't received this kind of emails, but I'm well aware of this kind of spam emails so I know how to react - just simply ignore it.

And most likely this has been used way before bitcoin and crypto, remember all the "Nigerian Price" scam attempts that has been prevalent in late 90's to early 2000's? It's that it evolved with the advent of crypto now. Hopefully newbies will read this and not fall for this kind of trick. Again, there are a lot of scammers out there, so stay one step of the game and not give in to this kind of threat.

This is what I did and I also recommend everyone to have more than 1 email and completely separate our main email from untrusted websites or suspicious services. My main email is only known to me, and only used to register for really important services, other experiences I use a secondary email. I have never seen a spam email like this in my primary email and my secondary emails with this message, I will delete immediately without review.

If the user has changed passwords by then, definitely. But there might be some that reuse their old (or even secure) passes that got breached since they never knew which site(s) were compromised.

Lol, they set up a fake game making you the receiver think that the mail was sent to the wrong address, this is a well-planned scamming trick, newbies who aren't that familiar with scams could easily become a victim, as for the real crypto OG's they will easily see through their plan, all the same, never open links through a mail that's not meant for you if you aren't waiting for an email alert why would you open the email that's not expected?

Some people still believe that only legit mail can be received in your inbox and scam mails will directly go into the Spam folder, this is not always the case, even legit mails do land into Spam folders too.

I've received numerous emails, but once you see them, you'll be able to notify them of the situation. I never want to fall into their trap, which is why I never read emails that are unnecessary to me. Scammers have a variety of methods for taking advantage of people in order to gain access to their wallets and steal what they have worked hard for. They can use more than email to ensure that you fall into their clutches.
I believe that avoiding some emails without even opening them or clicking on any unnecessary links is the best way to avoid being hacked, because some links, once clicked on, give them access to your wallet and will hack your wallet and take all of your long-term investment.

This has been circulating for a long time. It's the usual we know you are masturbating and will show it to everyone if you don't pay us scam. It shouldn't make anyone worried. But they got the password you used on a website that was breeched. That might be enough for some people to start thinking that the threat is real. It isn't. What is real is that at least one of your passwords have been leaked, and any website you used with the same password/email combination could be in danger. The scammer has nothing else.

Of course and I've changed the password, however, it's practically impossible to change all passwords that are associated with that email. I've stopped using it but it's still associated with a few important websites, such as Bitcointalk, Steam and a few others.
That's probably the wisest option; however, it's almost inevitable to prevent your email address from being found in such databases; even my newest one is in a few leaks, and trust me, I'm being quite careful with it and not using it on random websites. It's not convenient to change email address all the time. It's concerning to say the least that our personal details are hanging on a thin tread.

We can read every inbox message but don't obey the command to click the button which leads to redirect link because there is a dangerous risk of hacking, we must know the official message or spam message based on the sender because it is impossible for us to get reward offer from link which is not related to email us, it must be spam or phishing, so make sure you ignore or block the sender's email to prevent spam messages from being sent automatically every time.

I have learned a lot from these because and I am really grateful to @OP for sharing this information. OP was able to ignore this threat because he was security conscious. If he was careless with the data, he would have been scared and ended up giving these criminals the funds. And they will keep reaping their prey until they milk him dry.

For me, anything you don't want people to see, don't save it on your system and you don't also take it to public domains or social media. I have decided not to give out my email no matter how tempting the reward might be. It is risky to have the same password for more than one account and we shouldn't click on any link we see. My issue is that they are demarketing Bitcoin because uninformed people might that assuming that Bitcoin is synonymous with such criminal transactions.

Upon entering the world of cryptocurrency, I realized that there are various scamming attempts targeting crypto users, ranging from emails asking for sympathy, offering prizes, or offering help. I've found this kind of email once, but I just read it in a flash since I actually never read any spam in my email that I've made special for crypto purposes and just directly erased it. So, I was shocked at the time and tried to get the email back but unfortunately couldn't, so I just ignored it. Thank God, nothing happened (and I hope it never will), so I assume that what I experienced back then is the same as this one.

I recently came across news of a new malware that can automatically empty crypto exchange accounts, which is a significant concern. It's evident that breaches and cyber attacks are inevitable, even on seemingly secure websites like Twitter, as I discovered when I checked my email on https://haveibeenpwned.com and found that my email had been compromised in a breach unrelated to cryptocurrency. This experience has highlighted the importance of being extra vigilant with password management and overall online security. It's crucial to use strong, unique passwords for all accounts, enable two-factor authentication wherever possible, and be cautious about clicking on suspicious links or downloading unknown software.

As cryptocurrency users, we must take proactive measures to protect our investments and personal information from potential cyber threats. Regularly updating our devices and software with the latest security patches, using reputable wallets and exchanges, and staying informed about the latest scams and best practices for online security are essential steps to keep our crypto holdings safe. In conclusion, while breaches and scams are prevalent in the online world, we can mitigate the risks by being vigilant, informed, and proactive in our approach to securing our cryptocurrency investments. Stay safe, everyone!

I'm the type of person who likes to be curious about everything written in Email, I will ignore it if the contents are suspicious. Of the many incoming email, there must be attacks from scammers. They choose very neat words with the aim that the target believes more in what is conveyed, in the end they are interested in the attached link.
Messages like this should be ignored. Logically, you have to send them a certain amount of money to get the Bitcoin offered as a gift. This can't be real, Prevention is on each individual, ignoring, deleting and marking as spam.
Scammers are always trying to find their victims, we have to be smarter than them.

Thanks! Made report about him. It seems that's not first time when this BTC adress was reported. Nothing surprising, considering that he reuse that address.

I also don't remember my passwords of all websites that I use, especially if I visit it rarely. I haven't wrote all my passwords to notebook, so, sometimes I have to click ''Forget password button''
And yeah, good point. If he really have such sensitive information, you won't be safe after paying ransom.

If your email address got into these spam databases, there is no way to prevent getting such kind of messages. If you really don't want to get it, only option is to dump that address.

if you change the password then you are safe from the threat, so it's better to block that user's email so you won't receive that message again, but if you feel worried about the threat then it's better to replace the new email and ignore the old email if There is no important account associated with that email, I don't care about any threatening messages in the email because if he managed to hack my account then why didn't he just steal my balance without begging to send $900 to his address.

The method is not new, and I received messages many times with threats to publish pictures and videos of me, and I believe that this happens with any email list that was purchased after it was stolen from one of the databases. The e-mail on which I received these unsolicited messages, I only use it to register on Bitcointalk, and the registration was shortly before the hack of the forum servers.
I do not know if these methods work or not, since there are no statistics, but I expect that the probability of spam success is very high, since a large percentage of people constantly visit porn sites using a laptop with a camera.

Received some similar email and they really do include the actual password that I've registered, and I have an idea of what shit website that was since it was a new one and I fell for the promo that they've made. Yeah, a promo of some good stuff like bag that are on a sale, they make huge, discounted price on it to make everyone think that the offer was legitimate.

And with such, it's best to ignore these emails and do not click anything that they want us to click because that's how they're going to win with these attempts.

Also, it's not going to an end because they'll just pass it on to another scammer to do another attempt.

I also received a similar email a few months ago, but it was in Russian instead of English and suggested using Google translate. However, it wasn't containing any of my passwords; it was a simple threat demanding $1000 in Bitcoin. Ignore it and move on; change your passwords and secure your Bitcointalk account, which is vital. I've also used the website haveibeenpwned.com and have suffered plenty of leaks. I've changed my password multiple times, but my email is still being targeted. Is there a way to save it, or should I just dump it?

He actually got your password somehow I mean he probably get that from other scam websites or probably it was the scam website that sent that email, I do manage my password on a notebook to avoid this I put a different password on different accounts and different websites, same as you do I do this exclusively on important websites, I don't even know the password of some of my accounts so I need my notebook to look at it most of the time, sometimes its a hassle doing that but it helps secure my accounts.

I mean you would really send this kind of amount of money to someone if they really have a sensitive file I might just accept that it's already on the internet, doing transactions with someone like him would just lead to more for sure.

Re: Don't use your bitcoin talk account password on other websites You can check this thread on how to make a strong password as well as using the same password on the same websites.

The scammer probably doesn’t even know the risks involved in repeating wallet addresses, he's only interested in receiving bitcoin as ransom because he think he won’t get caught that way. I don’t think he truly has anything on you, people fall for this blackmail scam because of fear, $900 is only the first amount if a person falls victim and pays, the scammer will request for more money.
You can report the bitcoin address here
https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/reports/16hN8whHuZywJwMUGoiKRYC2p34SYQrWZ8

Best recommendation is ignore, report email. I don't know what would require me to read the entire e-mail although some of the data may be similar. This is a bad trap, and the more they read the entire email, the more convinced they will be of what the scammer is saying. But I'm sure this is an old trick, but there are chances that it works when it comes to newbies. So be careful and ignore suspicious emails instead of reading them.

So far I haven't received any such email either, but to be honest I very rarely open email and have probably ignored hundreds of email in them. To the OP, this thread is good for warning other users especially newbies, but please don't give scammers a chance to brainwash you with multiple threats.

Although there are various sites where you can do this like upon search I found article providing links where you can report these scams but don't know if any action is taken against them because they can provide the exchanges information about these addresses and block any transaction on them or even trace them but scammers are smart enough to bypass these restrictions as we have seen.But still you can check out this article

Check here

I'm not receiving yet an email like this but at least, I have an idea already of what should I gonna do. Ignoring and never clicking links is the best thing to do and also, take a pause first before deciding or putting a conclusion on unsolicited emails. We know hackers are too aggressive and if they can find leaks in your security, that was easy for them to get in and take control of our accounts. It happens already and many people had lose their funds, I think that is enough and we have to put an end to this thing together.

Then at least one thing is clear, and that is that the scammer does not use a unique BTC address for each victim, because that would mean tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of unique BTC addresses and editing every e-mail that is sent. You can also check if the e-mail was sent only to you, or if it contains multiple recipients.


There are more of them and they are easy to find through search engines, for example 1, or 2.

Maybe you send your email in some other fake website and your email got exposed so you have that kind of email. I've experienced it too, I have so many spam email and it's so scared to open because I'm thinking that if you click that email, your information may be exposed by some kind of hacker. Once i get this kind of spam, I reboot my cp and create a new email so that I will not worry anymore. Like what you said, 2FA is the best option for your safety and also to avoid some scammer and also hacker. Don't ignore this thing, It's really important that you know this kind of spam email. Don't just send your information to some suspicious website that can exposed your wallet or maybe your life

That guy has no will to live bro, he thinks that he can get a better life by just scamming and hacking people. Try to trick if you have this kind of email, prank it like he always do so the hacker can't hack or scamming anyone but I thinks the best way is just let them be, delete this kind of email so they stop teasing you.

Initially I haven't checked his address because I thought that he would make new address for each potential victim. Now I looked into it - now it's empty, but it received in total over 0.024 BTC in 2 transactions.
Where exactly I can report this address? I saw similar kind of websites, but now I don't remember their names.

Thanks. It's new stuff for me. Indeed, that email address got into spam mailing list few years ago. Probably it would be best to abandon this email, but as I said, I only use it for low importance registrations, so, all that junk that I get there doesn't really bothers me.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Spam-and-Scams/Question1669132.html

These letters have been sent out since 2019. Just check the link and take a look at the date.
Therefore, you should not associate yourself with this unfortunate hacker at all.
Your mail was indeed included in the spam mailing list, and it is from this that such letters will be sent to you.
To protect yourself and your nerves, try not to subscribe with your email address to any garbage.

You really have a point here, but at the same time I don't also think their is any point in doing that, since the hacker/scammer can easily can easily just send fund to its own wallet like you said to make convince it's victims that other actually pay. At the same time they can actually generate single address for each of their victims in other to protect their privacy.

The hacker failed with his imagination and calculation, thinking all average PCs make use of a webcam, which he can use to manipulate the victim's mind by showing him/her rough videos of him/her.

Every day by day, we keep on seeing new forms of scams. These scammers can never get tired or even look for something else to do rather than mapping out a new scamming strategy every single day. Although this form of scam is not new to me,
The more we are getting smarter and avoiding all these scammers, the more they are improving their method of attack and attempt. They seem to not know the word "giving up."

@LTU_btc, have you perhaps checked the BTC address that was sent to you to pay the ransom for your alleged sins? It's already an old trick, but I'm really interested to see if scammers get away with it these days, even though I know that sometimes they send payments to themselves in order to convince potential victims that others are also paying.

In addition to the fact that such messages should be reported as spam, it would be good to report BTC addresses to some of the sites that collect exactly such addresses associated with various BTC scams - maybe someone will check the address and see that the whole story is fake.

I also often get the same email same as you and the sender makes an offer to click a link or document attached.


But I believe this a scam and immediately delete it, also marking this kind of email as spam.
I often the same way, but again I don't know why they still can tuck it into the main inbox and always appears on the notification.

the new user or newbie should be careful because the email registered on an exchange or any kind of crypto will get the same as this.

You can check potential of your email pwned compromise and abandon it or change its password to a new unique and stronger password.

[Guide] How to know if your email address was part of any data breach.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/

LOL  that guy is trying hard to scam you. I think he bought the data from a website where you used your information to register, and now he is trying his luck. I think this is kind of a unique system of email scam attempts. The way this email is written it is very engaging. I have finished the mail from start to finish.

I don't get any emails like this, and maybe it is time to check my spam box to look for some well-written scam scripts.

I also read a similar story on this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62021687 he said his friend got scammed just through email too. Scammers try to use some sophisticated trick these days that most individuals fall victim to; some times the scam may seem so real that if one is not very careful, they could fall victim. which we cannot blame them most times but instead comfort them. If not for someone who is more exposed to cryptocurrency like you are, you may have fallen victim too or perhaps not. People should simply trade with safety more because scammers are always looking for someone to Scam.

Since when did emails begin coming with some sort of a threat?? It sounds more like that junk-head was tryna impose the fact that you have to be ripped and that's it ...lol.
I repeat, no matter how bugging it might look, -- as long as any malware doesn't have access to my device ..(even if it does), I can't follow them unnecessary instructions. Everything you see on the net wants to hurt you... Yeah!! It's ain't real until you've sent those worth of BTC and nothing shows up anymore. One thing I'm always amazed about is the fact that them hackers ain't even relenting.... BEWARE!

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

I also received a similar email I thought that the sender made a wrong sent, like you I never use a camera on my desktop so how he can possibly do a screenshot or even record this a random message in a hope that he can victimize those who suits up to his descriptions and allegations, but one thing never reply to that email or he will get the impression that you are reading all of your emails and he will have a clue on what kind of a person you are and he will devise a plan to victimize you next time he sent an email.

Today I was checking spam folder in one of my emails. Not the main one. I use this email address on low importance sign ups where I don't trust that website that much to use my main email. And I found maybe 40 messages send by same person between 12th and 21th of March. Here is full message that I got (removed password and BTC address from it:

Usually I don't pay attention to such messages, but there is one interesting moment - in few of his message he wrote one password that I really used in some not important websites. In other his messages he wrote password which looks similar to that one, but I haven't used such one. And in few other messages he just wrote some random passwords made from my email address.
There is one thing that made me sceptical about him - he wrote that he recorded me satisfying myself with my camera. But there is one thing - there is no camera in front of my PC, so, even if would did what he wrote, there is no chance for him to record it . Also, he said that my browser wasn't updated, but I always use newest version of browsers. Finally, he gave me 3 days, but few weeks already passed since I got these messages and nothing didn't happened. I also didn't noticed any strange attempts to login to any of my accounts recently.
It looks like a bit more sophisticated scam attempt. maybe it's really possible that he got my password from one of websites where I used. For example it can be some IPTV providers or Bitcoin faucets which I used many years ago and who sold their database.
I'm not concerned that much because on all websites that really matters I use different and strong websites and 2FA enabled. But I advise for everyone to take safety seriously. Use 2FA, make strong and different website for every website. Don't use your main email address for low importance sign-ups. And don't fall into such scams.