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Quote from: odolvlobo on February 17, 2019, 03:50:35 AM

Those extortion emails were common several months ago. They included usernames and passwords (that they got from hacked web sites), so they seemed very convincing.

These scammers didn't provide any info to back up their claims, so it's probably just some script kiddies that are just spamming email lists. I would ignore it. Its not worth any more of your time.

I think this case is not just on e-mail, but a lot of it also happens to some social media and even messages or telephone calls

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The one thing that interests me is how much BTC did scammer collect this way Huh

Did you check the balance on blockchain.info?

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Quote from: Arian247 on May 08, 2019, 02:37:21 AM

Extortion at its peak, it's disappointing to see how desperate some people are to take what's not theirs, anyways to be on a safer side now is the time you protect your information better

What hurt's my feelings the most is taking something that ain't theirs and secondly they won't have a second thought. If they are really doing it on to man or just for fun fact that they want.

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Quote from: Jet Cash on February 16, 2019, 06:37:11 AM

Scam email demanding payment in Bitcoin

I've copied it onto my own hosting as a simple text file. Links and addresses have been removed. I think it is a shame that people use Bitcoin in this way.I should probably report it, and let the police try to do something about it, but which police force would be interested.

btw There is no truth in the allegation, and the mail was sent to one of my spam vetting domains.

Getting the police involved might even relate to another issues, definitely scammers are all round the globe try to bring bad image to the good citizens on the Crypto atmosphere.

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Quote from: Arian247 on May 08, 2019, 02:37:21 AM

Extortion at its peak, it's disappointing to see how desperate some people are to take what's not theirs, anyways to be on a safer side now is the time you protect your information better

Yes we should always protect our personal information .
This kind of extortion would work for those who have recorded this kind of act .
For sure those people would pay even if the scammers didn't have the real video.

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Extortion at its peak, it's disappointing to see how desperate some people are to take what's not theirs, anyways to be on a safer side now is the time you protect your information better

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Quote from: Jet Cash on February 21, 2019, 06:04:07 AM

The real interest for me is in the source of the email address harvesting. I registered the domain name to see how risky it really was to include email addresses in posts. I had a bit of initial activity, and then things died down as I forgot about the project. I should probably have tried to tie the mail to the source, but I didn't really have time. Anyway, I've deleted the account, and I'll put the name up for sale.

Anyway I'm keeping the McDonalds promo bean stuck over the camera lens. It reminds me that I drink too much coffee.

I've gridlocked this to one domain before Linkedin
1 use email that was available for linkedin/business social media's.
You can download entire csv's of your contacts back then and do whatever with it, this was about a year ago.
Not on any platform being utilized but linkedin allowed for importing email in any way.
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Now that I think about it could have been tagged via key-wording on the profile too.
or email listed elsewhere and scooped up.

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Quote from: Jet Cash on April 29, 2019, 01:45:22 AM

Well this thread has taken an interesting turn. I'm not sure that I still have the email, so I can't help you guys with that, and the images obviously didn't ever exist, and I'm not sure any of you guys would want to see them anyway.

At the moment I picking a banana shaped tabled that I found in a lay-by. It has been driven over, so it is useless as a tablet, but, just out of interest, I wondered if any of the stored info could be extracted from it. It's a Samsung GT-P3110.

You could probably just try pulling the screen off (from the clips not where it's shattered). Directly belie there, you'll find the motherboard and the micro sd cards that are storing the data should be there - check for an external one too that'll be pretty easy to get out. You can probably restore the ram and the cpu too.

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An older member of a music forum I browse received one of these recently and was concerned lmao The "Dion, the anonymous hacker" part cracks me up. Sadly, people fall for this crap every day.

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Well this thread has taken an interesting turn. I'm not sure that I still have the email, so I can't help you guys with that, and the images obviously didn't ever exist, and I'm not sure any of you guys would want to see them anyway.

At the moment I picking a banana shaped tabled that I found in a lay-by. It has been driven over, so it is useless as a tablet, but, just out of interest, I wondered if any of the stored info could be extracted from it. It's a Samsung GT-P3110.

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Quote from: Jet Cash on February 16, 2019, 06:37:11 AM

Scam email demanding payment in Bitcoin

I've copied it onto my own hosting as a simple text file. Links and addresses have been removed. I think it is a shame that people use Bitcoin in this way.I should probably report it, and let the police try to do something about it, but which police force would be interested.

btw There is no truth in the allegation, and the mail was sent to one of my spam vetting domains.

I can tell you bro, there are lots of different types of scam emails circulating around all in an attempt to scam off of their money either through bitcoin or any other crypto coin, but unfortunately, I don't think the police can really do anything about it other than to warn or create massive awareness of this type of emails and warn people not to fall for it.... This is how I see it

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Quote from: Ailmand on April 22, 2019, 06:52:26 AM

You should report it or you can just ignore it. Scammers are wise these days but you should be wiser not to believe them that fast. Well, we could consider that hacker a non-professional one. That's too obvious and I guess he should try a better way to make it effective.

I don't know what would I feel with this. It is really obvious that the scammer is stupid. Honestly, in my opionion, the people who enter this side of the field will not be able to get caught with these stupid scams.

However, you have to make sure to always protect your desktop with the antivirus to avoid these kinds of prompt and to avoid these kinds of retarded people as well. Do not get scared with this because the person who made it is only trying to victimize some idiots and we do not belong to that group.

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Quote from: Ailmand on April 22, 2019, 06:52:26 AM

You should report it or you can just ignore it. Scammers are wise these days but you should be wiser not to believe them that fast. Well, we could consider that hacker a non-professional one. That's too obvious and I guess he should try a better way to make it effective.

i think wise is not a right words to describe those scammer. 'subtle' might be better Grin

just my two cents. nothing to serious about

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You should report it or you can just ignore it. Scammers are wise these days but you should be wiser not to believe them that fast. Well, we could consider that hacker a non-professional one. That's too obvious and I guess he should try a better way to make it effective.

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https://bit.ly/387FXHi lightning theory

Government employees aren't very smart. (in the nicest way I can say that some are pretty stupid at times - I guess it's nice the government gave them. A fair shot though at the job).

Anyone get an erectile dysfunction email or are they on to me Cry

(lol).

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Quote from: jackg on March 07, 2019, 11:51:17 AM

There's still the Nigerian Prince scam? I thought that was ended in 2005? Surely no one falls for that kind of crap anymore.

I mean alright they're trying to target actually the same audience (gen X and the snowflakes - I mean millennials)

I think one goverment employee payed 10 000€ recently on this scam.. Not sure what country, somewhere in EU.

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I have received some scam emails from localbitcoin, saying to me that my password has been changed.

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How about the US Generals looking to offload some Iraqi gold, luckily with your help Grin

Have you gotten any of those?

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https://bit.ly/387FXHi lightning theory

There's still the Nigerian Prince scam? I thought that was ended in 2005? Surely no one falls for that kind of crap anymore.

I mean alright they're trying to target actually the same audience (gen X and the snowflakes - I mean millennials)

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Quote from: jackg on March 01, 2019, 06:35:52 PM

I was having fun going through my spam folder recently and found a load of stuff. A 26 year old woman apparently uploaded "a new naked photo". They're not very good at finding the right audience, I'm more for 16-20 ish because I'm kinda young. And another one said women want to have sex in public places/parks which is a bit of a weird one since I've seen people being arrested for that crap and there's always police in parks (not to mention why would you do it anyway).

At least you got free sex, all I had were fortunes stowed away by Nigerian princes and I'm already rich :c

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