#Extortion emails install#
If you aren’t prepared to pay? The alleged hackers say they will send the incriminating information they uncovered to the authorities, lock computers, DDoS your network, and install the WannaCry ransomware for good measure. The email goes on to demand that two bitcoins are paid (currently about $10,000). You may like the idea that someone else is backing up your data for you (saves you a job, right?), but it’s not so good to hear that they have snooped through your files, and determined that your company has been cheating the taxman. We send these Documents and roofs to your Tax Department. We found Illegal activity – HIDING TAXES. We send this mail to you in YOUR account.Īfter analyzing documents. And ask yourself is it really likely someone from the CIA would contact you like this? (And would it be the CIA investigating such a case anyway? Somehow I don’t think so…)īut if that scheme didn’t fool you, maybe another one will.īleeping Computer warned of another extortion email earlier this month.įORWARD THIS MAIL TO WHOEVER IS IMPORTANT IN YOUR COMPANY AND CAN MAKE DECISION!
Obviously delete the scary emails as they are nonsense: don’t respond to them, don’t pay. The email claimed that your name, and personal details (including home, work and relatives’ details), had cropped up as part of an investigation into an international child abuse ring.Īccording to the email, the CIA knew that you had distributed and stored child abuse material, along with 2,000 others.īut never fear! Because a CIA operative working on the case has sent you this email, saying that he knows you’re good for a few quid and that for the knock down price of just $10,000 in Bitcoin he’ll remove our details!
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