Sextortion scams now include photos of your home.
New, by me:
"This week, several readers reported receiving sextortion emails that addressed them by name and included images of their street or front yard that were apparently lifted from an online mapping application such as Google Maps.
The message purports to have been sent from a hacker who’s compromised your computer and used your webcam to record a video of you while you were watching porn. The missive threatens to release the video to all of your contacts unless you pay a Bitcoin ransom. In this case, the ransom demand is just shy of $2,000, payable via Bitcoin by scanning a QR code embedded in the email.
Following a salutation that includes the recipient's full name, the start of the message reads, "Is visiting [recipient's street address] a more convenient way to contact if you don't take action. Nice location btw." Below that is the photo of the recipient's street address."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/sextortion-scams-now-include-photos-of-your-home/
Sextortion Scams Now Include Photos of Your Home
An old but persistent email scam known as "sextortion" has a new personalized touch: The missives, which claim that malware has captured webcam footage of recipients pleasuring themselves, now include a photo of the target's home in a bid to make…krebsonsecurity.com
Hugo Tunius :rust:
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Matthew Loxton
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Whenever I read about stuff like this, I wonder how many of these blackmailers vanish quietly because eventually they tried to blackmail one of the 1:1,000 members of society who is a psychopath.
Over the course of my life I have met, interviewed, and analyzed people whose response to such a letter would be excitement, not fear, and their dark curiosity and hunger would be aroused in a probably terminal way.
It sort of blows my mind that the scammers don't get this
TomSeppert
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •(((Den som ikke vet)))
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •FinchHaven
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •I get these breathless "You've been so, so naughty on the Intertubes!!!" all the time
I just laugh and delete, because:
1) I am an adult in any legal jurisdiction on this planet, and
2) I do *not* have any computer with a web cam nor any cam that views "my room" so no, no one has seen me pleasuring myself
Sorry, bro
Nice try, but you're a clown
Gilgwath
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •4d3fect
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Citizencat
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Ian
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •That Anonymous Coward
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •One does wonder if the recent 'release' of the larger databrokers made this possible.
While many people here will scoff at this obvious ploy, we have teens killing themselves over things like this, because they can't spot the scam, can't make the payment, & are terrified of being exposed.
Imagine the reaction of your younger self to see a picture of your house attached to this & how freaked you would be.
Discovering BTS⁷ - 마리온
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youtu.beCarl
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •It's 2024. How many people are still embarrassed if someone learns that they watched "Samson and Delilah ... and Desdemona ... and Deirdre"?
I guess, as with most spam, they only need 1 in 10,000 to make money.
Climb of the Vine
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •mudbungie
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Kirk I. M.
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Asexual people must be laughing.
Technically not ace (maybe gray-ace?) but I had to pause a moment before I realized the implication was that if you were watching porn you'd be touching yourself rather than trying not to die of boredom.
Also I have no contacts so there's that... Being raised under a rock has some benefits I guess.
Irregularjoe
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Thanks.
Jerry507
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in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Robby Barnes :trekbar:
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Miri :donor:
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Got one on Sunday. The picture they used was of edge of my neighbor’s house…if you have my address, why not look up Zillow pictures to threaten me with?
It was a good laugh.
Lisa
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Camwyn
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