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Scammers will go to great lengths to make you part with your money. Scams prey on our weaknesses and fears. Today we received a scam e-mail (AGAIN), and decided to share it to spread awareness of these types of scams, show you how you can spot these scams, and what to do about it when you receive these kinds of e-mails.

What's the scam?

This particular e-mail scam tells you that the scammer has hacked your computer, has been watching you, and has caught you watching some sort of erotic matierial, and filmed you doing it.

If you don’t want this to happen, you are instructed to send $500 USD equivalent in Bitcoin to an address provided in the e-mail, within 50 hours, or else.

Throughout the e-mail, the scammer tries to convince you that not sending the funds, or alerting someone to this e-mail will result in them releasing the video to “all your emails and contacts on social networks”.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU CLICK ON ANY LINKS CONTAINED IN THE E-MAIL.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU OPEN ANY ATTACHMENT CONTAINED IN THIS E-MAIL

What should you do?

Since this is most likely a low-level scam, with no breach of your devices or network, and as such you can simply delete the e-mail. Make sure to also delete it from your deleted items or trash folder.

If your e-mail hosting provider allows, you may also want to block/blacklist the sender, the domain or the IP.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU CLICK ON ANY LINKS CONTAINED IN THE E-MAIL.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU OPEN ANY ATTACHMENT CONTAINED IN THIS E-MAIL

Now would also be a good time to back up all your devices, even though you should already be doing this regularly.

Check out the full e-mail below:

Hello!

I am a hacker who has access to your operating system.

I also have full access to your account.

I’ve been watching you for a few months now.

The fact is that you were infected with malware through an adult site that you visited.

If you are not familiar with this, I will explain.

Trojan Virus gives me full access and control over a computer or other device.

This means that I can see everything on your screen, turn on the camera and microphone, but you do not know about it.

I also have access to all your contacts and all your correspondence.

Why your antivirus did not detect malware?

Answer: My malware uses the driver, I update its signatures every 4 hours so that your antivirus is silent.

I made a video showing how you satisfy yourself in the left half of the screen, and in the right half you see the video that you watched.

With one click of the mouse, I can send this video to all your emails and contacts on social networks.

I can also post access to all your e-mail correspondence and messengers that you use.

If you want to prevent this,

transfer the amount of $500 to my bitcoin address (if you do not know how to do this, write to Google: “Buy Bitcoin”).

My bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) is: 1KUknkh9bC4TPUoPXv4SnKdib8RAnUXDGw

After receiving the payment, I will delete the video and you will never hear me again.

I give you 50 hours (more than 2 days) to pay.

I have a notice reading this letter, and the timer will work when you see this letter.

Filing a complaint somewhere does not make sense because this email cannot be tracked like my bitcoin address.

I do not make any mistakes.

If I find that you have shared this message with someone else, the video will be immediately distributed.

Best regards!

Please don’t fall for this common e-mail scam

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