By now many of us are probably pretty familiar with the widespread phenomenon of sextortion email scams.
Typically the emails arrive in your inbox, claiming to have secretly taken a video as you “enjoyed” an adult website.
The blackmailer’s threat? To share the embarrassing video with your friends, family and colleagues unless you agree to pay a certain amount of Bitcoin into their cryptocurrency wallet.
Of course, the truth is that you may very well have not visited an X-rated website. And even if you did, the blackmailer doesn’t have a video of you masturbating. And if you believe they are likely to send a video to your friends and family for not agreeing to their blackmail then I have a bridge I’d like to sell you.
But the truth isn’t any deterrent to the scammers – who continue to try to trick the unwary and vulnerable with sextortion emails.
This week a reader sent me the following email which takes things in a slightly different direction. In many ways it’s a normal sextortion scam email – it claims malware was installed after visiting a porn website, it says that an embarrassing video was secretly recorded through the user’s webcam, and makes threats to pass it on to relatives and associates.
To make the threat even more compelling, the video filename is .mp4, where is derived from the first part of the victim’s email address. That isn’t quite so convincing, however, when sent to sales@examp ..
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