Lawrence Abrams

Sextortion frauds are whenever an assailant delivers email messages to individuals saying that their computer is hacked and that the attackers were recording the webcam and screen while the individual visits adult sites. The scammers then blackmail the recipients by saying they shall launch the videos when they usually do not be given re re payment in bitcoins.

The sextortion emails would just include a target’s password that the attackers found from a data breach dump in order to scare the victim into thinking that the threats were real in the past. Now the scammers may also be pretending to own usage of the mark’s e-mail account by spoofing the transmitter associated with the scam e-mail to end up being the same e-mail as the target.

These frauds are becoming really lucrative, with scammers making over $50K in one single week, and also this variant that is new no various.

According to reporting by Daniël Verlaan, this variant that is new first seen focusing on victims when you look at the Netherlands in which the scammers made €40,000.

A security researcher known as SecGuru, who has been monitoring these scams, found a similar variant in English after learning about this new campaign. SecGuru told BleepingComputer that the subject of these e-mails is “[email address] + 48 hours to pay”.

As an example, if my email had been example@example.com, the main topic of the sextortion e-mail would read “example@example.com 48 hours to cover” and sender of this e-mail will be my very own e-mail account. An example can be seen by you image of this English sextortion scam below.

Just as the victims that are dutch English victims have now been dropping with this scam and delivering re payments towards the attacker.

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