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Topic: Email scam demanding bitcoin - fooling the weak. - page 2. (Read 299 times)

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Those scammers is exploiting the weak that's why sometimes its better to have certain discussion about scams in our family especially that people nowadays are staying long time online so they can able to determine what is scams and avoid it.

These scammers leverage one one's vulnerability to be able to exploit their victims. I know many will be talking about those without enough knowledge being their targets, while that is true and could form a larger part of their targeted audience, even the knowledgeable ones and experienced people can be their victims too. Being careless with the way we operate our transactions sometimes due to our undue comfortability and overconfidence in our professionalism do bring about vulnerable conditions that make us fall into victim.

When dealing with funds and initiating transactions, it is good to always trade with care and exercise patience with the process. Being too hasty brings about vulnerability which is just what a scammers might require to gain his chances over you.
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So they target people who put their details on their Google accounts and tag them on Google Maps? Damn, even if there's no blackmail attempts through e-mails I'd be worried for their safety. Sounds like these people don't have a good knowledge about privacy and security in the first place.

How did the scammers know the images are related to their target btw? Do people upload their location details publicly? A bad idea to put our real name and photo on Google. It's hard to make sure no personal details are leaked.

These are the questions I was taking while reading through the post. Google Maps will only show the picture of the house and the address. The email and names of the people that live there are not shown. So I believe they target people who have their details on google. Probably also found out their social media too. Got the address and pictures from their socials and looked for the address on Google Maps.
This further goes to show how exposed we can be and how we need to be more careful. There are certain personally details that shouldn't be visible for others to see because it can be exploited.
I see people put their addresses on their social media sometimes, except its a work-related address, it shouldn't be public. Your home address should be private.
Pictures that revel where you live shouldn't even be on the internet.
legendary
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People who are not familiar with technological developments will certainly be afraid when they receive threatening emails, especially when the fraudsters include pictures of the house and the complete address of their potential victims.
In my opinion, if you use email, it means you are not fully blind to technology, because usually email will also be used for other things in the online world such as for registration of social media accounts and so on, especially for people who are finally fooled by sending money in the form of bitcoin to fraudsters this means that he understands or knows about Bitcoin, it's just that fear makes him unable to think well.
It is unfortunate for those who are deceived they should be able to ask those closest to this so they don't fall into this fraud

There needs to be public service announcements distributed through social media, print media and other electronic media to educate the public so that they do not panic easily when facing a situation like this. Contacting the police department is also a smart move to get help and support.
Usually public services will socialize about this form of fraud after there are victims.
hero member
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Scary when you read it, but if you apply logic here, doesn't make sense, so yeah, I do agree that it will only fool the weak and not those who have been in crypto for so long that this kind of attacks have been a recurring theme already.

Nevertheless, it's better to be very careful, as the number of physical attacks to Bitcoin holder have been increasing. And then online scammers trying to re-invent themselves with this so called email scams any any other scams for that matter.
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I can already see the cohort who will get affected by this. It is the older generation, less tech savvy users who possibly living alone or have no one else to depend on to. They have a lot of doubt and apprehension and easily get coaxed in paying such scammers. It is our duty to teach them about the nuances and try to prevent these things from happening.

One can try cleaning up their emails every few days or the gunk that get stuffed in, such emails will not be hard to find there.

Provably they are one of the best target of scammer since usually they are the one who easily got affected on what they read online. It happen to my uncle where he receive a message that he win certain huge amount on certain program then the one who sent a message is asking for money for said registration before he can get his winning. Luckily we notice this activity and warned him that this is just a scam. And don't believe on such offer again especially if they didn't join any raffle or activity that can give them rewards.

Those scammers is exploiting the weak that's why sometimes its better to have certain discussion about scams in our family especially that people nowadays are staying long time online so they can able to determine what is scams and avoid it.
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The scammers will do anything to trick people and get their money. They can use an image from Google Maps easily and send the email to people and asking for money. We must be careful to share our identity in any website or people so we can prevents the bad things that can happen to us. We can not deny that the scammers will search for many methods to scam people so that is why we must be aware from anything that comes. If we gets suspicious email, we can report it to police and let them investigate and if possible, the police with catch the scammers. We can do prevention from the scamming but the first thing that we must do is keep calm down and think to search for more info about that so we can decide what we need to do.
legendary
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I can already see the cohort who will get affected by this. It is the older generation, less tech savvy users who possibly living alone or have no one else to depend on to. They have a lot of doubt and apprehension and easily get coaxed in paying such scammers. It is our duty to teach them about the nuances and try to prevent these things from happening.

One can try cleaning up their emails every few days or the gunk that get stuffed in, such emails will not be hard to find there.
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This might be a simple scam attempt and I think that there's almost the same technique as the cons will scare the victims about them being able to browse their files. The scammers could have some partners wherever they're gathering this information. That's why always choose and be vigilant where you're signing up for your details because, with just a few searches away, they can Google Map our locations and scare us with whatever message they'd send us. But, for someone who's informed and won't be fooled easily by this scam attempt, there's nothing to worry about.
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So they target people who put their details on their Google accounts and tag them on Google Maps? Damn, even if there's no blackmail attempts through e-mails I'd be worried for their safety. Sounds like these people don't have a good knowledge about privacy and security in the first place.

How did the scammers know the images are related to their target btw? Do people upload their location details publicly? A bad idea to put our real name and photo on Google. It's hard to make sure no personal details are leaked.

I'm not sure, if residents show contact details on google map, the only people who do upload details on there are businesses. Maybe hackers are behind the scam threat, and the police only predicted that those pictures came through google map. I do not believe so, their details and photos could have been generated through social media platforms, then traced down on google map. However, as weird as it is, and considering the insecurity in the world, it's some thing to be scare about.
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Yeah that is pretty scary. Especially since they send a photo of your house and unless you recognise it was a Google streetview photo you are going to freak out and assume they live in your city and you might be in danger.

I heard the ones where they just email you and threaten but didnt think they would send along photos of your place of residence. The things scammers will do is crazy these days and downright scary.

Hopefully not too many people fall for these scams but I am sure some will because they wont want to put their family at risk.
My question is how would scammer gets our mail to send out that threatening mails? To me i think this things are being done by a close by friends or neighbors who knows that such people are holding enough bitcoin or that knows that such person trades bitcoin. Sincerely google street view doesn't give you view of someone's home, meaning it's archives the old post and updates from google so if someone is that clever enough they would know that it's not a recent photos.

For instance, i was looking for out for hotel that accepted bitcoin within my locality and i google, it shows me with google photos, when i zoomed more closely and follow up and got to the location, it was entirely different from what i saw on google, and if this photos are sent to someone who is working there they would easily detects that is scammers trying to scam them. I say this due to our country standard, i don't know of others how technology function enough to view up google with recent photos of someone's home.
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I mean just mark it as a spam and block, we all know there are thousands of scams like these and there is no point in making a blog post about all of these. Those who are using Bitcoin or Crypto to demand money through these scams are wasting their time, I am sure they can make more money by actually working somewhere than sitting on your PC and waiting for someone to get scammed.

Most of these people will not get more than one hit for their scam, while the vast majority never see a single victim for all of their phishing.

It's sort of like an exponential graph, where most scammers get nobody or just one, and only a select few are smart enough (or lucky enough) to ensnare thousands of people into the same trap at once. And more often or not end up being on some wanted list somewhere like the Twitter scammers of 2020.
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I mean just mark it as a spam and block, we all know there are thousands of scams like these and there is no point in making a blog post about all of these. Those who are using Bitcoin or Crypto to demand money through these scams are wasting their time, I am sure they can make more money by actually working somewhere than sitting on your PC and waiting for someone to get scammed.
legendary
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The scam attempt seems so simple, yet there are still people who fall for it. It’s a threat, though we don’t always know what kind, but for those who aren’t familiar with the technology, seeing an email where the scammer knows their address and even has a picture could really scare them, not realizing it just came from Google Maps. That’s why people need to be more educated about these kinds of scams and the technology behind them to help minimize cases like this.

People suffering from anxiety disorder will cheaply fall for this scam. These sets of individuals are just scared of the unknown which might make them believe these scammers. I have a relative who just believes that she is being monitored by her former employer. We have done everything to convince her that this is not the case, but she wouldn't believe it. The elderly might also fall victim since most are not used to technology.   

This is why I never want to fill my home address or any other personal information if I already can use the service/tool only to fill certain important information. This is really scary because it can be happened to anyone and anywhere.

If you work in a government organisation in my country, your data can be easily obtained from the internet. This is because the recruitment, employment, and promotion process is always uploaded online. And this information usually comes with the personal information of these public servants. One just has to be careful and always vigilant.
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How did the scammers know the images are related to their target btw? Do people upload their location details publicly? A bad idea to put our real name and photo on Google. It's hard to make sure no personal details are leaked.

Worst part is this due to KYC leak of an online account such as exchange, casino and so on that includes all our personal information such as email, address and ID which is included on our account.

Searching via google map is very easy while sending the attached email on the account with KYC will do the trick to this scam attempt.


I don’t think it’s coming from there. If I have an account on an exchange or casino, that means I’m already aware of crypto and the scams related to it, so I won’t fall for them easily. I believe the information source might be from outside the crypto world, maybe through social media platforms like Facebook, which many people use today.
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The scam attempt seems so simple, yet there are still people who fall for it. It’s a threat, though we don’t always know what kind, but for those who aren’t familiar with the technology, seeing an email where the scammer knows their address and even has a picture could really scare them, not realizing it just came from Google Maps. That’s why people need to be more educated about these kinds of scams and the technology behind them to help minimize cases like this.
People who are not familiar with technological developments will certainly be afraid when they receive threatening emails, especially when the fraudsters include pictures of the house and the complete address of their potential victims. Advice from the police is very helpful in minimizing cases like this, lay people will be calmer after advice from the police to immediately ignore the message.
There needs to be public service announcements distributed through social media, print media and other electronic media to educate the public so that they do not panic easily when facing a situation like this. Contacting the police department is also a smart move to get help and support.
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That’s why people need to be more educated about these kinds of scams and the technology behind them to help minimize cases like this.
No matter how much we try to educate such people, they'll still fall for scams time after time. The scammers know the psychology of the victims and that's how they get success in scamming those innocent people. But, what else can we do other than educating the people as it's not possible to track out each scammer and put those behind the bars.

Even if such actions are taken then still the scammers will find a new way to scam people either in physical world or in internet world. I believe the authorities should take strict actions against the scammers when they find any, so out of fear most scammers will think twice before trying to scam someone. But, I don't think that anything like that will happen and that's why awareness should still be given the highest priority.
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How did the scammers know the images are related to their target btw? Do people upload their location details publicly? A bad idea to put our real name and photo on Google. It's hard to make sure no personal details are leaked.


Worst part is this due to KYC leak of an online account such as exchange, casino and so on that includes all our personal information such as email, address and ID which is included on our account.

Searching via google map is very easy while sending the attached email on the account with KYC will do the trick to this scam attempt.
legendary
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I saw this in the news actually the other day.  The sad thing is, this will work and work really well.  I have tracked addresses over time that were linked to scams, and man it's sad how many people fall for them.

Now a lot of people fall for the whole "Here's your email address and password.  We've hacked your computer and if you don't send us .1 bitcoin to this addresses, we will leak videos of you watching porn that we have via your web-cam".  That can be scary for someone who doesn't know any better and doesn't keep a privacy shield over their pc camera, but I imagine someone getting a threatening email with not only their name but their actual home address/photo of their home..that sort of takes things to a whole new level. 

I still fondly remember my first ever scam attempt email, the infamous "Nigerian Prince" email scam.  I was a younger but remember thinking it was hilarious and a pathetic attempt.  Boy have we come a long ways.
legendary
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Good thing I don't check my email often, so I'm safe from this kind of scam. Just kidding. Grin

Seriously though, this is a huge problem, and the blame really falls on the government. How can people, especially those with money who are clueless about crypto or these specific scams, protect themselves? We all grow older (that’s just reality), but we shouldn’t stop learning.

Nowadays, being old isn’t an excuse to stay out of touch with the latest technology trends. That’s the only way we can prevent ourselves from falling for these scams, and the government has a big role in educating everyone.
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Yeah that is pretty scary. Especially since they send a photo of your house and unless you recognise it was a Google streetview photo you are going to freak out and assume they live in your city and you might be in danger.

Not scary at all. If you don't owe money to anybody and nobody suspects that you have a large amount of crypto somewhere, then why would anybody be concerned enough to believe that some random who they've never even heard of will attack them just because they posted a picture of their street or house?

Their addresses must have been public already, but the scammers themselves have no reason to go there.
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