Your account is hacked. Your data is stolen. Learn how to regain access. Hi,   I am a hacker, and I have successfully gained 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 your computer has been 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 did your antivirus not detect malware? Answer: The malware I used is driver-based, I update its signatures every 4 hours. Hence your antivirus is unable to detect its presence. I made a video showing how you satisfy yourself in the left half of the screen, and the right half shows the video you were watching at the time.   With one mouse click, I can send this video to all your emails and contacts on your social networks. I can also make public all your e-mail correspondence and chat history on the messengers that you use.   If you don't want this to happen, transfer $890 in Bitcoin equivalent to my Bitcoin address (if you do not know how to do this, just search "buy bitcoin" on Google).   My Bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) is: 19eXNvqfdK7w8NVX1Db5o6GBYR1tcpWTKv   After confirming your payment, I will delete the video immediately, and that's it. You will never hear from me again. I will give you 50 hours (more than 2 days) to pay. I will get a notice, when you open this email, and the timer will start. Filing a complaint somewhere does not make sense because this email cannot be tracked like my Bitcoin address.   I never make any mistakes. If I find that you have shared this message with someone else, the video will be immediately distributed.   Best regards!

Numerous employees within our company have been targeted by an ongoing sextortion email scam. The scam emails have varied slightly in content but consistently involve claims that the sender has taken control of the recipient's personal devices and gathered incriminating material, usually related to explicit adult content. The sender threatens to expose this material unless a payment, typically around $1490 USD in Bitcoin, is made to a specified Bitcoin wallet. The Bitcoin wallet address provided changes periodically. Despite these threats, we have seen no evidence to support the claims made in these emails. None of the devices used by our employees have shown signs of being compromised, and no actual incriminating material has ever been produced by the sender. However, the frequency and persistence of these scam emails have been cause for concern among our employees and have raised questions about the overall security of our systems. We have not responded to or engaged with these scam emails, and no payments have been made.

Scammer sent spoofed email address making it appear as they were sending it from own addres thus appearing to be in control of my accounts

Hi, I am a hacker, and I have successfully gained 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 your computer has been 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 did your antivirus not detect malware? Answer: The malware I used is driver-based, I update its signatures every 4 hours. Hence your antivirus is unable to detect its presence. I made a video showing how you satisfy yourself in the left half of the screen, and the right half shows the video you were watching at the time. With one mouse click, I can send this video to all your emails and contacts on your social networks. I can also make public all your e-mail correspondence and chat history on the messengers that you use. If you don't want this to happen, transfer $890 in Bitcoin equivalent to my Bitcoin address (if you do not know how to do this, just search "buy bitcoin" on Google). My Bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) is: 19eXNvqfdK7w8NVX1Db5o6GBYR1tcpWTKv After confirming your payment, I will delete the video immediately, and that's it. You will never hear from me again. I will give you 50 hours (more than 2 days) to pay. I will get a notice, when you open this email, and the timer will start. Filing a complaint somewhere does not make sense because this email cannot be tracked like my Bitcoin address. I never make any mistakes. If I find that you have shared this message with someone else, the video will be immediately distributed. Best regards!

Classic sextortion threatened email asking for bitcoin.

Hi, I am a hacker, and I have successfully gained 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 your computer has been 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 did your antivirus not detect malware? Answer: The malware I used is driver-based, I update its signatures every 4 hours. Hence your antivirus is unable to detect its presence. I made a video showing how you satisfy yourself in the left half of the screen, and the right half shows the video you were watching at the time. With one mouse click, I can send this video to all your emails and contacts on your social networks. I can also make public all your e-mail correspondence and chat history on the messengers that you use. If you don't want this to happen, transfer $890 in Bitcoin equivalent to my Bitcoin address (if you do not know how to do this, just search "buy bitcoin" on Google). My Bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) is: 19eXNvqfdK7w8NVX1Db5o6GBYR1tcpWTKv After confirming your payment, I will delete the video immediately, and that's it. You will never hear from me again. I will give you 50 hours (more than 2 days) to pay. I will get a notice, when you open this email, and the timer will start. Filing a complaint somewhere does not make sense because this email cannot be tracked like my Bitcoin address. I never make any mistakes. If I find that you have shared this message with someone else, the video will be immediately distributed. Best regards!

Scammer claims (falsely) to have hacked my computer and have obtained compromising images of me, which they will distribute to my personal contacts if I do not pay a ransom in Bitcoin.

31 May 2023 18:41:29UTC: scammer contacted us by e-mail impersonating us (sending from our own domain) with threatening content (e.g. blackmail, sextortion, ...) demanding payment to bitcoin address below Mail originating from IP: 193.32.58.213 Mail Subject: Your account is hacked. Your data is stolen. Learn how to regain access. First up to 512 characters of mail body: Hi, I am a hacker, and I have successfully gained 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 your computer has been 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

Spoofed our old work emails since they have no protections and sent sextortion scams to all emails.

Sender accessed multiple student emails and sent out emails claiming to have access to their computer and compromising video of them and asked for money to be sent to said Bitcoin address

I woke up this morning to find this email and it says that I sent it to myself at 3:58 AM, which I would never do.

Hi, I am a hacker, and I have successfully gained 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 your computer has been 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 did your antivirus not detect malware? Answer: The malware I used is driver-based, I update its signatures every 4 hours. Hence your antivirus is unable to detect its presence. I made a video showing how you satisfy yourself in the left half of the screen, and the right half shows the video you were watching at the time. With one mouse click, I can send this video to all your emails and contacts on your social networks. I can also make public all your e-mail correspondence and chat history on the messengers that you use. If you don't want this to happen, transfer $890 in Bitcoin equivalent to my Bitcoin address (if you do not know how to do this, just search "buy bitcoin" on Google). My Bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) is: 19eXNvqfdK7w8NVX1Db5o6GBYR1tcpWTKv After confirming your payment, I will delete the video immediately, and that's it. You will never hear from me again. I will give you 50 hours (more than 2 days) to pay. I will get a notice, when you open this email, and the timer will start. Filing a complaint somewhere does not make sense because this email cannot be tracked like my Bitcoin address. I never make any mistakes. If I find that you have shared this message with someone else, the video will be immediately distributed. Best regards!

The usual sextortion stuff ... I am a hacker, and I have successfully gained 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 your computer has been 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 did your antivirus not detect malware? Answer: The malware I used is driver-based, I update its signatures every 4 hours. Hence your antivirus is unable to detect its presence. I made a video showing how you satisfy yourself in the left half of the screen, and the right half shows the video you were watching at the time.   With one mouse click, I can send this video to all your emails and contacts on your social networks. I can also make public all your e-mail correspondence and chat history on the messengers that you use.   If you don't want this to happen, transfer $890 in Bitcoin equivalent to my Bitcoin address (if you do not know how to do this, just search "buy bitcoin" on Google).   My Bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) is: 19eXNvqfdK7w8NVX1Db5o6GBYR1tcpWTKv   After confirming your payment, I will delete the video immediately, and that's it. You will never hear from me again. I will give you 50 hours (more than 2 days) to pay. I will get a notice, when you open this email, and the timer will start. Filing a complaint somewhere does not make sense because this email cannot be tracked like my Bitcoin address.   I never make any mistakes. If I find that you have shared this message with someone else, the video will be immediately distributed.   Best regards!

usual bullshit

Email trying to blackmail people to pay in bitcoins First Received field in header is as follows: Received: from 10.117.227.168.alife.com.br (unknown [168.227.117.10])