We have listed below some common Google searches of these email scams, which we are seeing traffic for: Unfortunately there are lots of people who feel so threatened that they pay the money.
The more vulnerable they make you (the recipient) feel, the more likely they are to receive their ransom request of payment. Surely if someone did have a video recording of you, they would send it to you as this would be proof. If they have listed one of your passwords within their email, it is likely that they’re using this as an attempt to make you feel like they have evidence against you. In this case, they have used watching porn as a way of humiliating their victims. The cybercriminals generate a threatening email, the more threatening the email the more likely people are to fall victim to it! They may not target their victims immediately after the data breach, they may decide to do it months or even years later. If a data breach has happened at some point (whether that be recent or in the past) your email address may have been exposed online.Ĭybercriminals gather ‘leaked data’ such as email addresses and passwords, and they then target these victims and use this information against them. How and why have you received this threatening email?
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