Sensible Topic Blackmail email

[langland]

Hi Guys

I had email earlier today telling me that the emailer had accessed my laptop and taken a video of me watching a porno and that I should pay a large sum of money by bitcoin to stop him or her from sending the video to my email contacts.
The emailer quoted my email and an old password that I used to use, and said that they know a lot about me.
I guess that they dont have my online banking details or they would have just robbed me.
Now I have binned the email and I have no intention of paying, but I am now wondering if there is now something inside my laptop spying on me.

Any advice guys?

 

[Spectre]

Hi Guys

I had email earlier today telling me that the emailer had accessed my laptop and taken a video of me watching a porno and that I should pay a large sum of money by bitcoin to stop him or her from sending the video to my email contacts.
The emailer quoted my email and an old password that I used to use, and said that they know a lot about me.
I guess that they dont have my online banking details or they would have just robbed me.
Now I have binned the email and I have no intention of paying, but I am now wondering if there is now something inside my laptop spying on me.

Any advice guys?

I've had one, real email and password, I think I know were it was from. Amusing as I have no webcam .

Have a look at https://haveibeenpwned.com/.

Use individual passwords that are tied, in some way, to each site and then you know who got hacked.

In my case it was box.co.uk although I haven't beasted them about it.

 

[Ferret]

It's a scam i had one too no webcam.

 

[chookey]

I had one a couple of years back. Magical feat as I didn't have a webcam. The details of my email address and a password I have used were all correct and were stolen from a website I used to download xbox360 games from.

 

[HibbyDave]

Hi Guys

I had email earlier today telling me that the emailer had accessed my laptop and taken a video of me watching a porno and that I should pay a large sum of money by bitcoin to stop him or her from sending the video to my email contacts.
The emailer quoted my email and an old password that I used to use, and said that they know a lot about me.
I guess that they dont have my online banking details or they would have just robbed me.
Now I have binned the email and I have no intention of paying, but I am now wondering if there is now something inside my laptop spying on me.

Any advice guys?

Aye stop wan***g or put a bit of black tape over your camera, dirty little sod.

 

[langland]

Aye stop wan***g or put a bit of black tape over your camera, dirty little sod.

Thanks for that Dave

 

[janobi]

@langland - Dont worry about it mate, it's a very very old scam. It's just a way of extorting stupid people mainly.

On another note, what porn was it you dirty bar steward

 

[janobi]

I had one a couple of years back. Magical feat as I didn't have a webcam. The details of my email address and a password I have used were all correct and were stolen from a website I used to download xbox360 games from.

not xbox360iso by chance was it?

I got perma banned from there when I reported the database had been hacked. Funnily enough about 2 days later it was all over the place, news everywhere, and then site went offline perm I believe. Dragon or someone was the admin, my details still come up in haveibeenpwned for that site.

 

[chookey]

not xbox360iso by chance was it?

I got perma banned from there when I reported the database had been hacked. Funnily enough about 2 days later it was all over the place, news everywhere, and then site went offline perm I believe. Dragon or someone was the admin, my details still come up in haveibeenpwned for that site.

It certainly was. Site became a virus nightmare

 

[janobi]

It certainly was. Site became a virus nightmare

Yeah, I reported it, put up a thread and they perma banned me. The admin was adamant they hadn't been hacked. Shame really, as it was a good site

 

[albob]

I had one 6 months ago and then a follow-up one two weeks later. Had correct email and password. Thought it may have been from when VM had their website hacked (as it was my VM password) -- not sure tho'....

Just binned it

 

[langland]

So its not likely thay I have some kind of bot planted on my laptop then?

 

[turner brown]

you must have a good cam with zoom function never seen anyone get blackmailed for plucking a hair

 

[janobi]

So its not likely thay I have some kind of bot planted on my laptop then?

Extremely unlikely, but if you're worried then run malwarebytes which should pick up anything. I presume you've got a decent AV installed?

 

[langland]

Extremely unlikely, but if you're worried then run malwarebytes which should pick up anything. I presume you've got a decent AV installed?

I have AVG free installed

 

[Spectre]

I have AVG free installed

Just change any affected password @langland, all is fixed then .

 

[langland]

Just change any affected password @langland, all is fixed then .

Cheers I done that

 

[alimac]

malware corporate & eset works well personally do not like Avg that email scam is rather old now no doubt due to lockdown

 

[janobi]

I have AVG free installed

Yes as alimac has said, i'd change my AV from free to eset nod32 or similar. Getting keys is often the hardest part, so if you can just buy a license. Run malwarebytes and check out the device, but honestly, you're in the clear.

Dont password recycle, use a different complex one for all sites. I use keepass to generate passwords for all sites, and just store them there, it makes my life much easier, and I can have 8-30 character passwords made up of letters, numbers, special keys, spaces the works.

 

[langland]

I guess that my computer security could do with being better, thanks for the advice guys