The new Coronavirus extortion scam asks for $4000 in Bitcoin or scammers will infect the victim’s family with the virus.
In the past, we’ve seen sextortionists email blackmailing people them by claiming to have access to their private data which may involve text messages, photos, and videos. But recently, with the Coronavirus pandemic, such attackers have started using the virus as an additional point in their emails.
How they do this is by emailing people warning them that they could infect one’s whole family with the coronavirus while leaking your secret data in the process. The subject line is cleverly positioned to include your name and password in succession attracting your attention in the first place and prompting you to open the email.
See: Friend’s girlfriend sextortion scam infects PCs with Raccoon malware
Further, they propose that if one wants to escape this life destructing humiliation, they should pay a certain amount of money within a specific time frame via a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. The choice of using such a payment option for a good sum of money such as $4000 as in the email below is to guard against traceability.
Here is a full preview of the email sent by the extortionists:
An example of one such email, image by ExecuteMalware.
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