Email from "Hacker" that Face is under review?

Anonymous
2020-01-14T14:33:46+00:00

I just got an email from "Hacker" claiming they have my face and it is under review. It sounds like a scam or some sort so I didn't open the email for the potential risk. Has anybody received this email as well? I simply deleted it, but I still feel uneasy....should I also do something else?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-26T22:09:20+00:00

    The text is not encrypted, the scammer just added in a few random characters between each letter to make it looks like encrypted. The scammer didn’t even bother to change the random letter between the letters, it is same through out the email. For example, the first word is “You” in some version of the email, when you copy it it may become “Y12345678o12345678u...” (12345678 is a example of random letter). It is obviously computer generated to pass the scam filter. DO NOT FALL FOR THE SIMPLE TRICK.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-26T15:27:17+00:00

    According to what they indicated it would be not responding (which I did not answer) but I opened the email since it contained nothing in the attachment

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-26T15:26:01+00:00

    Good afternoon. I opened the email because there was no file attached. The text was encrypted, there was no way to translate with a translator. Let's wait. And thanks to you for the tips.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-26T13:27:38+00:00

    I received same email today, please tell me how did u deal with it

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-26T09:20:45+00:00

    DO NOT FALL FOR THIS STUFF! DO NOT REPLY TO THESE PEOPLE! THEY ARE SCAMMERS AND NO, THEY DO NOT HAVE WHAT THEY CLAIM TO HAVE!

    For months I had someone periodically send me emails claiming they had video of me doing things (which is impossible since my monitor while a flatscreen, is old school and does NOT have a camera, nor a mic, so not possible for them to have what they kept claiming they had) which was stated in the subject line (I refused to open the emails as I knew it was a scam) and finally after months of ignoring them, a few final desperate emails (on their end) tried to threaten me by demanding I send them money or else (and I started laughing at that). I ignored those emails as well, and finally they stopped sending me emails and probably went on to try and scam someone else. I have never gotten another email from those scammers. I get other emails from general scammers, but not anymore of those.

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