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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 4:56:20 GMT
I just received 3 scam emails designed to scare me into giving them money. If anyone in the UK gets these emails, send them to report@phishing.gov.uk
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Post by benziger on Feb 3, 2021 11:20:43 GMT
Oh dear, and we got yesterday five spam calls from the UK.
I reported all of them to the Office of Unfair competition of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs as advertising calls are forbidden if I have an asterisk in front of my telephone number (e.g. *023 456 78 90) in the telephone book... When they have a certain number of complaints about the same number, they (the Swiss Confederation) will take them to court. The offence is "unfair competition" because competitors comply and "abuse of a telecommunications system" because the number has been passed on under the condition "* = no advertising calls".
I know it's different for you in the United Kingdom. We can also write "no advertising" (only unaddressed of course) on the letterbox and the advertising companies accept that. Exception: begging letters from NGOs and election and voting propaganda, because at the time this was considered important for the functioning of the welfare state and democracy by the Postmaster General and accepted by the consumer protection associations. Today, there is no longer a Postmaster General, but fortunately the custom still applies.
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Post by potet on Feb 3, 2021 12:47:36 GMT
The funniest I got was last year. It was a threatening mail written by someone claiming he had used my webcam to take me naked masturbating. To keep silent, the blackmailer requested a 500€ cheque to be sent to an address in Bordeaux, South-west. The problem is that I have no webcam! Later I learned the blackmailer was a North-African in the Bordeaux area. Thanks to his address he was very easily located and arrested. The funny thing is that there were fools who had sent him cheques. LOL
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Post by benziger on Feb 3, 2021 13:19:07 GMT
Yes, that's really funny!
I am on the committee of an internet safety association. There is a mail address paypal@associationname.org. Again and again I get spam "Dear paypal...." yesterday topped by the announcement that all inactive mail addresses @associationname.org would be deleted if I didn't click on the activation link. It's just stupid that we manage the mail server and the addresses ourselves and that the sender's address didn't look very much like us: associationname.org<server@cfca.com.cn>. (Always look between the brackets!!!)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2021 6:03:27 GMT
The funniest I got was last year. It was a threatening mail written by someone claiming he had used my webcam to take me naked masturbating. To keep silent, the blackmailer requested a 500€ cheque to be sent to an address in Bordeaux, South-west. The problem is that I have no webcam! Later I learned the blackmailer was a North-African in the Bordeaux area. Thanks to his address he was very easily located and arrested. The funny thing is that there were fools who had sent him cheques. LOL I am delighted that the scammer was caught  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2021 6:19:03 GMT
These kind of emails are are called sextortion scams "I do know, [PASSWORD REDACTED], is your password. You do not know me and you are probably thinking why you are getting this e mail, correct?
actually, I placed a malware on the adult videos (pornography) website and do you know what, you visited this web site to experience fun (you know what I mean). While you were watching videos, your internet browser initiated working as a RDP (Remote Desktop) that has a key logger which gave me accessibility to your display and also webcam. after that, my software program obtained all your contacts from your Messenger, Facebook, as well as email.
What exactly did I do?
I made a double-screen video. First part displays the video you were viewing (you've got a nice taste haha), and second part shows the recording of your webcam.
exactly what should you do?
Well, I believe, $2900 is a reasonable price tag for our little secret. You'll make the payment via Bitcoin (if you don't know this, search "how to buy bitcoin" in Google)."Check out this site nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/07/13/sextortion-scam-knows-your-password-but-dont-fall-for-it/ |
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Post by potet on Feb 4, 2021 9:18:48 GMT
Larika, there are fools who do pay those scammers.
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Post by benziger on Feb 5, 2021 11:11:35 GMT
As quoted in larika's link, the showed password is usually real, but old. So, to be on the secured side: - use a different password for each site/account - change your password after some time (e.g. 2-3 years) -> at the time a 6 digit letters only password was strong enough, today 8 digits incl. special characters, the next one will be 12 digits.... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2021 11:37:23 GMT
use a different password for each site/accountThat was my problem benziger . I used the same short password for several sites (Lulu.com was one of them!) when I got scammed and they captured my password. Anyway I changed all my passwords, made them longer using letters, numbers and characters. I will change them again in a year. Thanks that is good advice.
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Post by JesusNinja on Feb 5, 2021 15:05:30 GMT
I've received around 30 of these sex scam emails. They have my password in the header. Then it starts off with I know this is your password. Then you get the whole story of how they remotely activated your cam and filmed you watching porn. This of course is based on the assumption that you are using a laptop. Most desktops don't have a webcam unless you buy one and connect it. These emails are almost word for word the same each time. Sometimes slightly reworded with broken English. This lets me know it's not from where I live. I Googled it and many others are getting the same "Sex Scam." What happened is that Twitter and other sites were hacked years ago and the passwords were sent into the dark web. These are now being used to extort people. If you get one don't worry. It's also good if you have a laptop to put a piece of tape over the camera lens just in case. Using the same password for all sites or short ones can lead to you being hacked. Something I did is go to this site passwordsgenerator.net/ It lets you generate 16 character passwords that are very hard to hack. But they are going to be hard to remember too. So what I do is create the password then copy and paste it into a document and make a pdf of it. Then when I need to log into a site, I open the pdf copy the password and paste into the login box. I have around 20 passwords I have to use for various sites and use a different one for each site. That way if one is hacked they can't use it to log into my other sites. Another good idea is change your passwords once every few months or at least once a year. Again you can go here and create great passwords for free. And don't ever send these people money or bitcoin.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 5, 2021 19:30:16 GMT
With the sextortion scam emails the perpetrators target an email address with a password of whatever provenance, then go into their spiel. The person who tried to hit me up for $6,000 in Bitcoin used a password gleaned from the hack of a MMORPG gamesite. The password and associated email likely cost at most US$1 on the darkweb.
The people doing the scams are using the "throw mud at the wall until something sticks" technique, and all it takes is targeting someone who is gullible enough to believe it's easy for a hacker to do something seemingly miraculous. Though I must admit it has to be hard to use a webcam that doesn't exist while recording scenes from a pornsite that hasn't been subscribed to while extorting money someone like myself doesn't have; in short a miracle was performed.
Kind of makes me miss the days of the scam emails about needing my help moving millions of dollars out of an African country. I had one scammer convinced the only way to get my help was by sending her 17-year-old daughter to stay at my house as collateral, said request was quickly refused for some odd reason.
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