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Hey. I have bad news for you!
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03.08.2022-On this day, I hacked your device's operating system and got full access to your account . I have been watching you closely for a long time.
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I installed a virus on your system that allows me to control all your devices.
The virus software gives me access to all the controllers of your devices (microphone, video camera, keyboard, display). I have uploaded all your information, data, photos, browsing history to my servers. I have access to all your messengers, social networks, email, sync, chat history and contact list.
XrNr
I learned a lot about you!
f/CJ
I thought what can I do with this data...
I recently came up with an interesting idea: to create a video clip in which you **** in one part of the screen and watch a **** in the other, such videos are now at the peak of popularity!
What happened amazed me!
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With one click, I can send this video to all your friends via email, social networks and instant messengers. I can also publish access to all your emails and instant messengers that you use.
In addition, I found a lot of interesting things that I was able to publish on the Internet and send to friends.
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If you don't want me to do it, send me 1900 $ (US dollar) in my bitcoin wallet. My BTC wallet address:
bc1qe9h0drc5aq3xl7zyaq6l0al6nwf92uweruw24j
If you do not know how to replenish such a wallet, use the Google search engine. There is nothing difficult in this. As soon as funds arrive, I will see this and immediately remove all this garbage. After that we will forget each other. I also promise to deactivate and remove all malware from your devices. Trust me, I keep my word. It's a fair deal and the price is pretty low considering I've been checking your profile and traffic for a while.
XN
I give exactly two days (48 hours) from the moment of opening this letter for payment.
After this period, if I do not receive the specified amount from you, I will send everyone access to your accounts and visited sites, personal data, and edited videos without warning.
Remember: I do not make mistakes, I do not advise you to joke with me, I have many opportunities.
There's no point complaining about me because they can't find me. Formatting the drive or destroying the device won't help because I already have your data.
It makes no sense to write back to me - I do not write from personal mail and do not look at the answers.
>UP
>UP
Good luck and don't get angry!
Everyone has their own job, you just got unlucky today.
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P.S. In the future, I recommend that you follow the safety rules on the Internet and do not visit dubious sites.
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The only real way to assure yourself there is no malware is to reinstall Windows cleanly, if you can. If you choose to do this, use the Media Creation Tool to create a bootable installer for Windows, save your data to an external backup and use the tool to remove the existing partitions and recreate them, after which you can finish installing Windows cleanly.
I got the exact same message i did the same thing but he said he still has my data if I delete my PC
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I have everything same but the mail didn't contain any screenshot but it had the password to my 2 of the emails. Is it the same scam or I should really be concerned about the mail. The password which they have mailed me are the old passwords and I have changed the password. The linkdin was hacked so after that I had changed the password for everything.
And another concern even after changing the password how did they send the mail to me with my mail ID itself ?
To clarify a bit, these scam emails are all based off the same boilerplate email scam, which is why they sound so similar, but the specific details vary due to the differing sets of information the scammers might have about you from either previous malware that could collect screenshots, passwords from browsers or often just a password or two gotten from often old website breaches that associated your email address with them.
So as already mentioned, the only true concern from your specific message would be to change the passwords if not already different.
As for sending you an email message using your own email address as the sender, that's a simple process called 'spoofing' that's relatively easy for those sending email spam to do, since the SMTP email rules aren't really that strict and so nearly anything displayed like From, To addresses, Subject or anything else you see within them can be easily faked.
Rob
Do not worry, just ignore it.
I'd be conserned if the email was adress to me, for example, but they keep it vage and never say our names, it's a copy paste that they send to a lot of people at the same time.
The ID thing, I'm afraid there isn't much we can do about it, if u changed the passwords u should be fine but unfortunately hackers always have their ways around things. Just ignore and dont do anything they say
I have everything same but the mail didn't contain any screenshot but it had the password to my 2 of the emails. Is it the same scam or I should really be concerned about the mail. The password which they have mailed me are the old passwords and I have changed the password. The linkdin was hacked so after that I had changed the password for everything.
And another concern even after changing the password how did they send the mail to me with my mail ID itself ?
