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Looks like I've been hacked, a demand for bitcoin payment has been made;


Greetings!
I have to share bad news with you. Approximately a few months ago, I gained access to your devices, which you use for internet browsing. After that, I have started tracking your internet activities.
Here is the sequence of events:
Some time ago, I purchased access to email accounts from hackers (nowadays, it is quite simple to buy it online). I have easily managed to log in to your email account
You transfer 1.5 Bitcoin to me and once the transfer is received, I will delete all this dirty stuff right away. After that, we will forget about each other. I also promise to deactivate and delete all the harmful software from your devices. Trust me. I keep my word.

What to do? Ignore?
 
Copernicus said:
Other than this unsolicited email sent to you, what proof do you have that any of your accounts have been hacked?
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None really. Some of it is clearly a bluff, something about porn and other compromising material being released to friends, family and public, which isn't true because there is no porn on my computers, or anything compromising, except for banking and share trading....as nothing is missing from my accounts, it looks like a bluff.
 
DBT said:
Copernicus said:
Other than this unsolicited email sent to you, what proof do you have that any of your accounts have been hacked?
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None really. Some of it is clearly a bluff, something about porn and other compromising material being released to friends, family and public, which isn't true because there is no porn on my computers, or anything compromising, except for banking and share trading....as nothing is missing from my accounts, it looks like a bluff.
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I once got a similar threat, which was laughable. It claimed to have hacked the video camera on my computer, even though my computer had no video camera. They send these things out to a lot of people, and it pays if only a tiny number of recipients get panicked into sending them money. I just sent it into my spam folder.
 
Might be wise to shut down your bank account and open a new one. Cancel credit cards and debit cards and start with new accounts. A pin in the butt but better that than sorry. My brother had a debit card hacked and soon people from as far as way as London were trying to use it to buy stuff.
 
You can ignore 100% of these "I've hacked you" emails.

Your email's spam filter should be filtering them out of your inbox before you even see them.
 
bigfield said:
You can ignore 100% of these "I've hacked you" emails.

Your email's spam filter should be filtering them out of your inbox before you even see them.
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Yeah, it was in junk mail. Should have known. Not thinking. Caught me out. Oh, well. They try every trick in the book.
 
Porn?

What a laugh. Who these days will be embarrassed about porn? Other than an outed Evangelical preacher.

The well known TV actor Tony Dansen did porn with Marylin Chambers when he was young. Didn;r hurt him. If you were in my generation you would know who she was along with John Holmes.

Porn is said to be a major consumer of net bandwidth.

Don't know what a bit coin is worth in dollars. Somebody spams a million people. If 10,000 send 15 bit coins how much is that?

If I had sensitive material on a PC I'd have two, one not connected to the net.

I just use Firefox. There are subscription browsers that are more secure. Having nothing to hide or be embarrassed about I don't worry about it.
 
steve_bank said:
Porn?

What a laugh. Who these days will be embarrassed about porn? Other than an outed Evangelical preacher.

The well known TV actor Tony Dansen did porn with Marylin Chambers when he was young. Didn;r hurt him. If you were in my generation you would know who she was along with John Holmes.

Porn is said to be a major consumer of net bandwidth.

Don't know what a bit coin is worth in dollars. Somebody spams a million people. If 10,000 send 15 bit coins how much is that?

If I had sensitive material on a PC I'd have two, one not connected to the net.

I just use Firefox. There are subscription browsers that are more secure. Having nothing to hide or be embarrassed about I don't worry about it.
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Bank accounts and compromised passwords is my concern.

They gave their bluff away with the porn claim.
 
Does your online services offer dual authentication?

When I log on to my medcal chart service I am sent text with a code to enter.
 
FYI. I totally hacked all of you. I have embarrassing things about after having hacked all of your zip disk drives. I have access to all of your loan and liability accounts. You must give me 1.9 dogecoin for me to leave you alone.
 
steve_bank said:
Does your online services offer dual authentication?

When I log on to my medcal chart service I am sent text with a code to enter.
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I have that option with my bank and Super accounts. I haven't taken the option with banking yet. That's the next thing to do.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
FYI. I totally hacked all of you. I have embarrassing things about after having hacked all of your zip disk drives. I have access to all of your loan and liability accounts. You must give me 1.9 dogecoin for me to leave you alone.
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Yep, that sums it up. It can be disconcerting the first time you get one. I'm sure it has caught some out.
 
I had to deal with a weird hack a few months ago. I got an email from an elderly customer of mine who I know only casually. The email said she was dealing with a bad sinus infection, and would I go to the store to purchase some Apple gift cards for her. WTF? It made no sense, since her daughter (who I had just met more recently) lives only a block away from her, and sees her almost daily to check up on her. Initially, I thought maybe her mom was having a dementia episode, so I contacted her about it. She was quite well aware of it and said multiple people contacted her. She had spent 6 hours online and on the phone to get the problem under control. Apparently this hacker managed to access her email address book and send out this weird request to everyone in the hopes that someone would bite, and send the Apple gift card number back to him so he could buy phone/computer equipment. The hacker was pathetic though. He continued to send me emails for a few days, pleading that the sinus infection was getting worse, and how come don't I care about her. :rolleyes:

ETA: In the process of learning about this gift card scam (apparently, its pretty popular these days), I found a few youtube channels of people who "scam the scammers" and waste their time or dox them. A common trick is to disguise their voice as a trusting old lady and pretend to be clueless and inept about computers. It drives the scammers crazy, and they start cussing out the "old lady". This channel (Scammer Payback) I thought was pretty good:

Scammer Payback
 
There are 8 billions people, even if 1% are dumb enough to bite that would be hugely successful.
In reality, I think I heard, a number around 10-20% who are scammable one way or another.
In Russia popular scam is to to pretend to be bank and call people over the phone, tell them that they need to transfer money to safe account in order to save from hackers/fraudsters.
 
DBT said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
FYI. I totally hacked all of you. I have embarrassing things about after having hacked all of your zip disk drives. I have access to all of your loan and liability accounts. You must give me 1.9 dogecoin for me to leave you alone.
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Yep, that sums it up. It can be disconcerting the first time you get one. I'm sure it has caught some out.
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Yesterday I clicked something in Facebook and my computer locked up with a big warning screen “YOUR COMPUTER IS LOCKED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SHUT IT DOWN OR YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR DATA” and blah blah.
Sure enough it was unresponsive to the keyboard. So I unplugged the external drive that holds everything that would be hard to replace, and shut the CPU down. Fired it back up after disabling its internet connection and everything was fine. Swept it with some utilities and nothing was found. I’m still mystified - why? What was the purpose?
 
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barbos said:
There are 8 billions people, even if 1% are dumb enough to bite that would be hugely successful.
In reality, I think I heard, a number around 10-20% who are scammable one way or another.
In Russia popular scam is to to pretend to be bank and call people over the phone, tell them that they need to transfer money to safe account in order to save from hackers/fraudsters.
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I can give you a routing number if you feel the need for safe harbor, Barbos. 🤗
 
I periodically get the Amazon and Netflix account has a problem scam text.

Porn is nor very creative

'I know where you hid it' might get more hits.

I keep my user names and paswwords in a hack proof paper notebook.
 
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