This is the body of an email received by a colleague today (word for word as received):
This account was
infected! Renew the password this time!
You might not know
me me and you are probably wondering why you are reading this
particular letter, right?
I’m ahacker who
openedyour emailand digital devicessome time ago.
Never try to msg me
or find me, it is definitely not possible, because I forwarded an
email using YOUR hacked account.
I’ve installed
virus on the adult videos (porn) site and guess that you have
vistited this site to have a good time (you know what I want to say)
Whilst you have been
watching movies, your internet browser began operating like a RDP
(Remote Control) having a keylogger that gave me the ability to
access your monitor and network camera.
Afterward, my
programgatheredall information.
You have put
passcodes on the websites you visited, I caught them.
Needless to say, you
are able to change each of them, or have already modified them.
Even so it doesn’t
matter, my program updates needed data regularly.
What have I done?
I made a reserve
copy of every your system. Of all files and each contact.
I formed a
dual-screen movie. The 1st section shows the video you
were watching (you have got an interesting taste, wow…), and the
second part demonstrates the tape from your camera.
What do you have to
do?
Great, I think, 1000
USD will be a reasonable amount of money for this very little secret.
You will make a payment by bitcoins (if you do not understand this,
try to find “how to buy bitcoins in Google).
My bitcoin wallet
address:
[ Idiot
Put The AdDreSS here ]
(It is cAsE
sensitive, so copy and paste it ).
Warning:
You will have only
48 hours to perform the payment ( I have an exclusive pixel to this
email, and at the moment I understand that you have read this email).
To monitorthe
reading of a letterandthe activityin it, I utilize a Facebook pixel.
Thanks to them.
(Anything thatcan be
usedfor the authorities should helpus.)
In the even I fail
to get bitcoins, I will undoubtedly transfer your video files to all
your contacts, such as family members, co-workers, etc?
---||---
So let’s analyze
this one together shall we?
Even if this guy had
put a virus on a porn site ( and he has not ), Remote Desktop
Protocol (RDP) on PCs is by default DISABLED, so he cannot have taken
control of my internet browser and he cannot have installed a
keylogger and he cannot at any time ever have had access to my camera
because...I DON’T HAVE ONE.
Therefore anything
he says about what he’s done is just complete fucking hogwash.
No capturing videos,
so no “dual-screen movie”. So then his pathetic attempt at extortion
via bitcoins is just laughable. And because he never got control of
my PC, he cannot have my Contact List to threaten me with. And “I
have installed a pixel”? LMAO. I don’t thing he knows what a
pixel is nor what Facebook Pixel does. The sap. This email came via
Russia and Japan using spoofed addresses.
He’s right about one thing,
he is untraceable. But if you receive an email like this, it is 100%
shitcanable and I suggest you do just that. And then laugh your ass
off that this schmuck.
