Topic: Email scam demanding bitcoin - fooling the weak. - page 4. (Read 1094 times)

 This is a concept that often occurs in the environment by giving a statement from them as fraudsters, they are good at finding loopholes to deceive someone, but in this case, it takes a lot of attention in handling this fraud that occurs, I myself have experienced this incident several times in the context of being done by calling, these perpetrators always use part of the family members to threaten us with their fraudulent concept.


 Be very careful in receiving messages from someone you don't know, even with an uncertain background, they are always targeting someone's assets or property including Bitcoin, always secure your Bitcoin from fraudulent actions and use a secret key that no one knows except you as the owner.

Some people doesn't have the idea of how these scammers operate and that's why they become victim. When some people receive mails, they can easily believe that it's a real mail because they don't have the idea that scammers have a way of stealing people's email. So, the victim will believe that the email is real since they know that they haven't shared their email with any body and by having such trust, they can become victims.

People just need to be careful and open their mind to learning and following up recent happening, so that they will learn from the experience of other people's mistake. I know I would have been victim to some situations if not for the fact that I have heard a similar story from a victim of that same situation.

I developed tough skin towards scams like this the day a stranger (scammer) sent me a private message asking for money to take my relative to the hospital immediately for he just got involved in an accident. I almost fell victim to this scam, at the end it turned out that no one was involved in an accident.

Now, I am very careful of the information I give out both online and offline. Bitcoin is supposed to protect our privacy and make it impossible for anyone to trace and steal our coins. But the kind of information we put out there will uncover us and make us vulnerable to these attacks. Sometimes we can't help it but share certain information about us online. To be on the safer side, we must avoid sending strangers bitcoins or fiat until we are strongly convinced that such a transaction is genuine.

Bitcoiners need to be extra careful because bitcoins sent to scammers are gone and gone for ever.

Does that mean any untrustworthy service over the internet can be collecting user information such as their home and street addresses and then either using them to do such scams or selling them to third parties who are then doing all this? This is the reason why it's not good to share all your personal information with any website over the internet.

If not any other service or website, I'm pretty sure websites that conduct surveys, often providing money and incentives to people for completing surveys which sometimes require you to enter your personal information, are doing such things for sure. I have always thought that these services sell that information to third parties and that's how they earn money.

Knowing these are scams is one thing, but understanding that we shouldn't share our personal information everywhere online is much better.

Thanks for reminding us about this kind of scam there are so many unique ways to scam people now a days that is why we need to be more careful, we need to inform everyone about this scam to make them aware of it, most of thier victim is a newbie that has no experienced yet, i hope they will know or see this before its too late, it is a big frustration if we get scammed specially when the money is from our hard work so I think we need to double check every action we made using the internet.

I was wondering the same thing: even if you have an email address made using the full first and last name, how do you know where that guy lives? My idea is that maybe they found some kind of database online with all these info, simply having an email address wouldn't help, it would be too generic. If there is a hack/leak from some website then it's easier to do.

It is okay to be scared if you receive this kind of email, but sending the blackmailer money is not a solution, sending them money just opens the door for them to continue asking you for more money, until you eventually give up, so it is better not to even start sending them money from the beginning. If i receive such as email, i would immediately delete it without responding to it and you should do the same too.

This kind of fraud is very simple and it seems impossible for us to believe in fraud like this, if someone is fooled by a motive like this I think he is a layman. Hopefully this information can help people who are new to Bitcoin. Whatever email is in our email inbox, we must understand from the email we receive if there is a fraudulent motive like this, it is better to press the "Report spam" menu as soon as possible and then delete the email.

I know some of these type of scam attempts look potentially legitimate but you can usually always tell. Look deeper into the message, there’s usually some type of spelling mistakes or grammatical errors somewhere. I have to admit I have never & am extremely unlikely to ever fall for unsolicited email scams.

And of course you should really be having that common sense on which this would really be primarily be needing up if we do tend to deal up with something. You could really tell that on how the heck people do really fall
unto these obvious scams on which if you do really look up closely or mind throughly on which it is really just that too obvious that they are really just that trying out to scam you. The bad thing on here is that if there
are really certain informations would really be that leaked out like your secret videos or any other things that you do really keep it as a secret or able to locked up some important files on your computer, then it would really be leading up no choice for you to but to pay up something. Email scams are already that long time busted but still surprisingly there were still people who do get victimized with these basic things.

This is why if you do really have some important files or even with your crypto wallets into your desktop or whatever files you do have then its always been that recommended that you shouldnt really be
careless on clicking up random links no matter what it is, as long you do know where's the source. Usually people do end up on such scenario or situation just because they are really that
too careless on clicking things up around and the moment that they are really that realizing that they are in danger then this is where they would be able to find out on what they had done earlier.

Those criminal usually include guide how to buy Bitcoin and then send it to them. But looking at example of the email scam on https://nordvpn.com/blog/pegasus-email-scam/ and https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/new-sextortion-scam-combines-stolen-data-to-target-victims-directly, this email scam doesn't include a guide.

There is another question: how can people who do not know about cryptocurrency pay the scammers what they ask for?

If we talk about where the scammers get their addresses and other things that should be related to confidentiality, then look at the data of Americans that are now being sold or have already been posted on the dark net to carry out such fraudulent operations.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-27-billion-data-records-with-social-security-numbers/

Especially when there are threats of bodily harm or something like that - I think it's natural for some people to be afraid. You're absolutely right - people need to be educated about scams that involve threats, they need to know what they should be able to do without worrying.

Some people may try to find a good solution by reporting it to the police - but if they panic and think the threat is real, then the damage will be done to them and the scammer will be happy about it. Scammers are really crazy sometimes and they will find the weak to prey on. Hopefully we and all users involved in this thread will be kept away from all forms of fraud attempts from irresponsible people.

If I will receive such email, I will also be feared and might have sent them some funds, but I will take some suggestions from other experts, like from this community first and I know I will be guided right and I will be safe. The bluff of Pegasus malware, which is Israeli spyware and it spys on your device either IOS or Android, is the latest news in Hezbullah you might have heard of where the pagers got destroyed remotely by pre installed viruses and the media is claiming Israel is behind them.

Point is such viruses can be really frightening, and a simple, non-tech savvy dude like me can easily fall prey to these phishing links but thanks for sharing it because now I won't fall prey to this scam in case I receive such mails. We all should not take quick actions to these emails, like AFAIK they can easily have done the harm if they have installed the Pegasus virus, as they already be knowing our seed phrases.

I understand that it can be scary since the scammers know too much about the victim. But data like this can be found on the internet easily. So don’t immediately assume that these scammers have some kind of special or unique ability to incriminate you or put you in danger. If you really are that scared then go and report this not pay immediately.
Most likely it is old people who are easily scared and fooled by technology. No matter what your age is, we still should remain vigilant and educated about these kind of things.

The fact that they're using the same tactic as any blackmail out there that's much more banking on fear is probably the reason why it's so effective in getting these scammers what they want after all, every person out there has some kind of secret that embarrass them after all and I think that it will work on anyone, you just need the right triggers to scam someone. It's such a sad and angering thing for me that this is still happening right now but when you look at it this way, there's always the fact that malice in people will always be there no matter how much we want to deal with it to the point of eradication, being vigilant and practicing information security is probably your best bet on this kind of stuff.

It’s just a simple scam, if someone takes the bait, they fall right into the trap. They’ve probably studied how much to ask for, just enough to seem affordable so people will pay quickly. The ones behind this are smart, like businessmen, so we need to be even smarter to avoid getting scammed.

That’s a good suggestion...it's best to keep a low profile, especially if we have significant crypto holdings. Let those who brag do their thing, since some of them just want to attract people to invest so they can scam them. We don’t need to follow that path if it’s not our style.

Really interesting, I like that the scammers are nice and only ask for $1950-2000!!! They are very generous and don't want to make their victims suffer too much .

Anyway, the natural reaction would be fear when an unknown person sends you a message with personal information about you, pictures of your house, etc., the victim would not think that it was taken from Google Maps or the Internet if he has not been in a similar situation before.

This method of scamming is much nicer than the ones I have heard about recently where young men break into homes and force victims to give them crypto-related data such as exchange passwords, wallet seeds, etc.

This days the more we try to find solutions to scam attempts the harder it seems to become, we face physical attacks from thiefs and we also face internet thiefs, ignoring the internet scammers is probably the only way one can beat their actions.

The fact that it comes with a kind of authority makes me feel it's probably going to work with some few people because once you get threatened with your family it becomes hard to ignore as the police advised but in whatever we do let's just keep our of reach of scammers by prioritising privacy of everything.

It is indeed a very interesting topic.  Scammers are really getting bold nowadays.  They really maximize their effort into deceving people and scamming them.  If anyone anonymous or representing an organization that is unknown to us and is demanding a payment, then we all know that it is a scam attempt.  Only people who are naive will fall to that trap.



True, it is a sad thing to think of, people falling to an obvious scam.  I do not know what got into the minds of these people who are trapped and forced/swayed to pay these charges.  Probably it is the lack of information about this type of scam and or they have done something that aligns with the demand to pay.  But whatever it is, thanks @OP in sharing this new scam strategy.