Bitcoin blackmail report

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The FTC is warning of an increase in scam e-mails and Bitcoin blackmail attempts. Reports of Bitcoin blackmail scams have taken a big jump in the last few weeks. The e-mails say they hacked into your computer and recorded you visiting adult websites. They threaten to distribute the video to your friends and family within hours, unless you pay into their Bitcoin account.

Avoid Scams - Bitcoin

The best way to deal with phishing and other spam emails is to delete them on sight. Many of these emails will include a transparent, single-pixel image, known as a beacon.

When you open the email, it fetches the tiny image. Note: Gmail and some other services pre-fetch images to avoid this problem.

Scam emails demand Bitcoin, threaten blackmail

Also bear in mind that spam and phishing emails may include attempts to infect your computer with malware. This is why you should keep your anti-virus software and operating system up to date. It can be annoying, but thousands of PCs were infected by malware such as Stuxnet and WannaCry months or sometimes years after the vulnerabilities they exploited had been patched. Have you got a question? Email it to Ask. Jack theguardian. Ask Jack Email.

I got a phishing email that tried to blackmail me — what should I do? Pauline received a spam message that looked like a sextortion or webcam scam. Scammers have sent millions of sextortion emails over the years. Register here. Sign up for Watchdog Alerts for more tips on avoiding scams. Extortion scammers send out threats indiscriminately, using big batches of email addresses and associated passwords that they likely obtained on the black market following big corporate data breaches.

This ruse is rampant. Cybersecurity company Symantec says its software blocked almost million extortion emails in the first five months of When the message does get through, it can be lucrative. Online extortionists might also claim to have caught you in a different sexually compromising situation, like cheating on your spouse, or even to have planted a bomb at your workplace.

Understanding fake sextortion email scams

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