A hacker send me a screenshot of me using my computer and told me that they have all my data, also they’re saying that they are gonna make a **** of me

Anonymous
2022-08-24T00:13:56+00:00

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.

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I learned a lot about you!

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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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Brian Tillman 27,015 Reputation points Independent Advisor
2022-08-24T17:04:07+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-25T12:10:52+00:00

    omg i got this today rn, exept that my picture was a lock screen

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-07T22:44:14+00:00

    I also had the pleasure of dealing with such stupid hackers 2 days ago. A screenshot was sent and it showed all my passwords. I got a shock at first. I also saw afterwards that I had failed login attempts on my emails. Immediately, I had to act. So if your passwords are displayed, then immediately change all passwords! The try all sites like FB, Instagram and Co to change the emails. Therefore, change immediately. In no case, ignore! Important, do not change the passwords on your infected computer. But on a 2 PC that is not infected. Otherwise, it could be seen. Please do not save any more passwords in the browsers. Otherwise, it can be read. Then, when you have changed all passwords, it is best to make a new email that they do not know. Finally, format your PC and reinstall Windows. Then the spitting should be over. Always be careful what you download.
    Peace

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  3. Rob Koch 26,080 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-09-05T03:55:20+00:00

    I got the exact same message i did the same thing but he said he still has my data if I delete my PC

    Mia Caldwell,

    Who says they have your data? The scammer who knows nothing about you except your email address and possibly an old password or two if they also bought these from a previous malware distributor.

    These people are opportunistic scammers and nothing more, hoping you're foolish enough to give them money for nothing more than sending a threatening email. Put the scammer's email in your Junk email folder (or back there if you took it from there), change any passwords if they sent you those too and get on with life.

    Read posts within the thread by myself and a few others who provided more information about these than just another copy of the same message with a different bitcoin account number, since all of those are confused individuals like yourself who actually believe what these obvious scammers are saying, when only your email address and possibly a password or two might be real and typically quite old.

    The reason these scam messages are being sent to you is any true attacks using your email address as username and passwords collected via malware if any have already been attempted against whatever accounts might have been involved and have failed, so the original malicious actors gave up and sold your info to another malicious actor who tries to talk you out of your money with this email scam instead, using whatever other info they bought if any to try and build your trust that they're telling the truth about their abilities, which in actual truth are non-existent.

    These are nothing more than modern con artists using ancient confidence scheme techniques updated to include current computer and internet related terminology, which since so few consumers really understand any of this, work often enough that it's worth the scammer's time if only one out of 10,000 email addresses actually pay off.

    Don't be one of these fools, move the message to the Junk and/or delete it and get back to reality.

    Rob

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-08-24T02:14:05+00:00

    Yes i am 100% sure thats my laptop:(, ill try running offline scan

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