Ho bisogno di aiuto con questo. Uno dei miei amici ha ricevuto queste e -mail. Sta pensando di andare alla polizia. Ho controllato la sua posizione con il suo indirizzo IP e mostra a Berlino, in Germania. Ma può usare una VPN. idk. Qualcuno ha affrontato una situazione come questa? O qualcuno può suggerire qualcosa? Qualsiasi aiuto sarebbe necessario.
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di TitttySuckker
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Its a scam. They dont have a Trojan on your PC. Dare them.
Simply ignore it. It’s just spam that is sent out en masse.
If he is still using the mentioned password somewhere, then he should change it.
Gotten this before aswell, it’s just a scam, change passwords and delete, they’re just trying to intimidate
It’s really funny how people start moving once they get those “I caught you watching porn” scams, “TittySuckker”.
These are known:
https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/digitale-welt/phishingradar/erpressung-per-email-angeblich-porno-geguckt-und-kamera-gehackt-29927
Delete, ignore move on
You can simply ignore it. I received the exact same email with the only difference, that they wanted USD instead of EUR (are they dumb?) and the wallet address was different.
They said they filmed me watching strange porn, but how they managed to do that with me not having a webcam and my phone turned face down when I’m at home will remain a secret.
There’s no need to involve the police as they cannot do anything about that. Delete and carry on.
Scammers buy large batches of email + password lists online.
Then they send these auto-generated e-mails. If there was ever a video caught there would be at least a screenshot or other „evidence“ included.
But the scammers have nothing.
Change the password though. Its public now, actually the last paragraph in the scammers e-mail is good advice.
Ive gotten quite a few of them as well, i never bothered. I think going to the police is useless. Ist most likely encrypted multiple times i guess. Theese people have nothing against you or your friend and hope for the fear factor, mostly on guys/teens for making them question their search history or sth. I suggest just blocking the mail adress. If you go to the police, they will take the complaint and maybe do some research. But with how popular theese mails have become i guess they already got plenty of those.
Brother, is the first time you receive some spam?
And you want to bring this to the police?
lol – just update your password, spam filter and move on
This is a common scam that can easily be ignored. The scammer is bluffing and has no videos or control over your devices. They just send those emails out in mass and hope a few people will fall for it.
If that’s in fact the real password for the email account, make sure to change it right away and set up 2-factor authentication if you haven’t already. The scammer likely got the password from a data breach. You can check if your accounts have been in any known data breaches on this website:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
If you’re still unsure, I’ve heard Malwarebytes offers a free scanning tool, that you could run on the PC. I haven’t tested it myself though.
One more thing:
He has changed the password, but on last January, 2024 from My friend’s instagram account, there was a post and story about bitcoin, which was not posted by my friend. someone hacked his instagram account.
and when he checked, no other device was logged-in from his account.
Plus, in the LinkedIn his entire profile, with profile picture and the language of the LinkedIn was changed from english to Chinese. same as previous, no other device was connected with his account.
I’ve been receiving a different version of a similar threat message. It claims that a spyware called Pegasus has been installed on my iPhone, and I’m being threatened with things I haven’t even done. These emails come as spam and I’ve received the same one about 4 or 5 times over the past 3 or 4 months.
What’s strange is that it looks like I’m sending the emails to myself, and they end up in my spam folder. At first, I was really worried, I thought my information had been stolen and that my phone was hacked. But then I copied the entire message and searched it on Google. When I saw that many other people had received the same thing, I felt much better knowing I wasn’t alone.
Even just for research purposes, you could copy the entire email and search it on Google or other search engines, maybe others have received the same type of spam too.
You can even send this message to an AI to check if it’s a scam, and to see if similar emails have been sent to others.