I woke up this morning to this. They knew my password. "... I infected you with my private malware, (RAT) / (Remote Administration Tool), a few months back when you visited some website where my iframe was placed and since then, I have been observing your actions. The malware gave me full access and control over your system, meaning, I can see everything on your screen, turn on your camera or microphone and you won't even notice about it.
I have also access to all your contacts, private pictures, videos, everything! I MADE A VIDEO showing you (through your webcam) STATISFYING YOURSELF! You got a very good taste! Hahaha... I can send this video to all your contacts (email, social network) and publish all your private data everywhere!". The guy wants bitcoin and I don't have any and I can't just ask people to buy it for me. What do I do now I have no option other then to just blow my fucking brains out.
everyone gets these emails, they're just trying to shake you down
ignore it
Jason Russell
it's a lie, they're not very honest people
Aaron Morales
Unless he showed you the pictures he got of you jerking off he's bluffing.
Cooper Russell
How exactly does he know my password then? Thank you for the reassurance I know the pepe might've thrown some people off but I just wanted to make this quickly for help.
Jaxon Watson
we had a thread with this exact same email like 2 months ago just ignore
Cooper Carter
they got the password from some data breach these emails are sent out in batches, no one is targeting you
Asher Allen
>How exactly does he know my password then? if it's shorter than 8 characters and you don't have 2 step auth it's pretty damn easy, or they compromised another site where you use the same mail/pwd combination
Justin Robinson
You can spoof email addresses
Joshua Hernandez
they get your password from a list of millions of passwords that were stolen from some shitty site that didn't didnt encrypt your info
i get these emails every day because i used to have an account with pipex(talk talk) whose database either got hacked, or everyones info was sold by an employee, its frustrating because they refuse to admit they got everyone's passwords stolen
Alexander James
When sites get hacked often all the hashed passwords are put out on the internet as well as their corresponding emails. Then they do bruteforce or dictionary attacks on the passwords until they crack them, and send this scary message to the email that corresponds to the password. There's no evidence he knows anything or has done anything more than this. It is a good wake up call to use different passwords for each service though.
Zachary Rivera
How do you know he knows your password? Did he email it to you in plain text?
Brandon Davis
not op but the last one i got had my password in plain text, i got a solid laugh out of it because the password was ancient (over 4 years old) and it's an account i only use for trash account signups
Lmao I got the same email it's just to let you know that your password is breached
Jordan Smith
Yes I just checked haveibeenpwned and a couple of sites I used had some data breaches.
Yea he did. I didn't wanna show it obviously.
I changed a bunch of my passes right after so hopefully it works out.
It is pretty vague going on about how he used his private malware. Idk seemed to just through words he thought I wouldn't know in there. So I'm most likely just overreacting. Sorry if this was a waste of a thread. Just waoke up at like 7 AM to this and I've not been very well lately so I immediately jumped to the worse possible outcome.
Owen Bailey
>It is pretty vague going on about how he used his private malware scaremongering tactic, just heightens the fear among the normies making them more likely to pay up
the fact they keep running this scam means it's probably working for them
Austin Baker
Yea the more I gave it even a bit of thought I thought it was weird. On the off chance it is real though what should I do? Just even on the 0.000000001% chance it's real I'd want to know my options if I have any besides to blow my brains out.
Bentley Hill
you don't want to go down that rabbit hole but if you want the hassle, get 2fa on your accounts, run some security software (virus/spyware) on your machine and if you're still not satisfied reinstall your os
still not happy? consider switching to a more secure os but i wouldn't go much further than this
Aiden Rodriguez
Malwarebytes said I was clean gonna run AVG scan soon. Can'treally do 2fa since no cellphone. Thank you for the advice though. Just wanted to know options.Sadly my dignity won't be intact if he really does have and leaks it.
Joshua Torres
Well, you can use 2FA using something like TextNow but it’s annoying
Eli Reed
I'll tell you exactly what's going on. A site you're registered to got hacked. The hackers got your password and Email from that site. With that information they're trying to mass blackmail everyone. Notice how nothing in the mail is specific? Not even what you were watching, they don't know anything. Any real blackmailer would send a video or at the very least a link to the vid.
Nothing in your system is infected, it's 100% a scam, they only got your password and mail. DON'T PAY ANYTHING.
Ryan Barnes
Oh thank you for that I may start using it even if it is a pain in the ass. Yea I did. I had just woken up so it took me a bit to fully wake up and realize how vague they were being
Matthew Cooper
>not covering your webcam WEW LAD
Jackson Powell
I've only been visiting youtube and twitch for a while now so I assumed i was good. not twitch someone in pakistan got accesss to the account and twitch isnt doing anything even after like 20000000 tickets I've opened RIP. What do you suggest to cover it up with?
Wyatt Nguyen
very common new type of scare tactic scam, watch this op youtu.be/1JDCbq9Uq5o like the other anons said it's data breach garbage
Christian Perry
I wish people like you were forced to use different networks quarantined away from people like me so I'd stop getting spammed 8 times a day with texts from "local numbers" saying shit like >THE KHARDASHIANS USE THIS TO F**K FOR HOURS!!!!!! >CLICK HERE -> a4sc./37f8fn.dvcf
They only send that shit because retards like you fall for it.
Christian Morales
The other stuff was already explained, but going forward you might want to use different passwords everywhere, maybe with (a bunch of?) pass wallets and/or FIDO2 hardware keys wherever applicable, it'll reduce the number of accounts compromised every time someone successfully grabs your passwords on the other end.
Elijah Lopez
I mean i already started using new passes for a bunch of places just was a bit worried about the email itself after just waking up.
Julian Gomez
>Dude, I don't have a webcam, what you're talking about?
Joshua Lopez
>telling op the truth >not letting op lose his neetbux to some third world scammer for the lulz what happened to Jow Forums?
There's a difference between being an ebin trole and being a faggot.
Ethan Davis
>frogposter >retarded
Asher Foster
dont worry fren, my friend got the same email and it was just his password he used 10 years ago, just change your password and you dont need to worry about anything
>spoof Don't worry OP, your password did not get stolen. This is an example of email spoofing. Basically, they spoofed somehow (e.g. you may have a public account which shows your email address) your [email protected], then they forged a custom email using the SMTP protocol with the "From" and "Destination" set to your email. This way, it seemed like they sent the email from your account to your account, though the only thing they have is your email. This messages are pretty common nowadays and you can search the message they sent you on any search engine to find a lot of people complaining about this.
Noah Davis
Send him another video of yourself masturbating and say "I don't give a shit" at the climax
Michael Hernandez
It wasnt my email he emailed me from. I apologized for the pepe earlier to be fair. I realize I'm not the smartest in these subjects so I decided to come for help. Thank you for the support and advice
Nicholas Scott
Yeah user you don't seem too bad even though you posted a frog. This is an anime board though
Henry Thomas
Other anons already told you it's a scam due to a data breach, probably club penguin used admin/admin as their credentials for the back office. What i want to discuss is >I infected you with my private malware, (RAT) / (Remote Administration Tool), a few months back when you visited some website where my iframe was placed I mean, it's not 1998 anymore. Is this even possible nowdays? Browsers operate on a sandbox completely isolated from the system resources, i can hardly imagine something running outside of DOM and excecuting code in your system, especially since that kind of malware would require to skip your OS security as well I don't say it's impossible, but it would require NSA level of effort to infect someone trough those means, and the cost/profit ratio isn't even remotely convenient. I believe that unless you're specifically targetted, or you don't run taylor_swift_naked.jpg.exe it's implausible. 95% of malware requires an explicit user mistake, and the remaining 5% is way beyond your average pajeet mail scams
Everyone and their dad got this mail, including mine who just laughed it off and threw the thing away, nothing ever happened (obviously). Its a known phishing mail, learn 2 google.