Black Mirror Blackmail Episode

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What happened in the unsolicited email I received yesterday also occured in the plot of an episode of the UK TV series Black Mirror. Email as follows: { with my details altered to maintain my anonymity}:

From:ntabwobaja2020@yahoo.com ................................................Date:April 27, 2020
To:blankman@yahoo.com

I am aware, sailboat2020, is your password.
I need your full attention for the next 24 hours, or I will certainly make sure you that you live out of guilt for the rest of your life span.
Hi, you do not know me. Yet I know all the things regarding you. All of your facebook contact list, phone contacts plus all the virtual activity in your computer from past 169 days.
Including, your self pleasure video, which brings me to the primary motive why I am crafting this particular email to you.
Well the previous time you visited the sexually graphic online sites, my spyware ended up being triggered inside your computer which ended up shooting a eye-catching video of your self pleasure play by activating your webcam. (you got a seriously unusual preference btw lol)
I have got the full recording. If, perhaps you think I am fooling around, simply reply proof and I will be forwarding the particular recording randomly to 11 people you know.
It may be your friends, co workers, boss, parents (I don't know! My system will randomly choose the contacts).
Would you be able to look into anyone's eyes again after it? I question it...
But, it doesn't need to be that way.

I would like to make you a one time, no negotiable offer.
Purchase $ 2000 in bitcoin and send it on the down below address:
1KMYC79XP*9BqaPZn4fxjqV8tgvoP1ftkTN
[CASE sensitive, copy & paste it, and remove * from it]
(If you don't know how, lookup how to purchase bitcoin. Do not waste my valuable time)

If you send out this particular 'donation' (let us call this that?). After that, I will disappear and never ever make contact with you again. I will erase everything I have got concerning you. You may very well keep on living your current normal day to day life with absolutely no fear.
You've got 1 day in order to do so. Your time begins as soon you check out this e mail. I have an unique program code that will inform me as soon as you read this e mail therefore don't try to play smart.
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Have any of you faced this situation before? What would you do?
 
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This one has been going on for over a year. One of my staff sent it to me to check out (I’m in IT). Funny thing was that it showed a password she had used in the past. Someone has got the username and pass from a site that was hacked. Since it was a pass she hadn’t used in a few years, it was from one of those data breaches from a few years ago.

This is another good reason to change passwords periodically and to not use the same password for all sites.
 
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What happened in the unsolicited email I received yesterday also occured in the plot of an episode of the UK TV series Black Mirror. Email as follows: { with my details altered to maintain my anonymity}:

From:ntabwobaja2020@yahoo.com ................................................Date:April 27, 2020
To:blankman@yahoo.com

I am aware, sailboat2020, is your password.
I need your full attention for the next 24 hours, or I will certainly make sure you that you live out of guilt for the rest of your life span.
Hi, you do not know me. Yet I know all the things regarding you. All of your facebook contact list, phone contacts plus all the virtual activity in your computer from past 169 days.
Including, your self pleasure video, which brings me to the primary motive why I am crafting this particular email to you.
Well the previous time you visited the sexually graphic online sites, my spyware ended up being triggered inside your computer which ended up shooting a eye-catching video of your self pleasure play by activating your webcam. (you got a seriously unusual preference btw lol)
I have got the full recording. If, perhaps you think I am fooling around, simply reply proof and I will be forwarding the particular recording randomly to 11 people you know.
It may be your friends, co workers, boss, parents (I don't know! My system will randomly choose the contacts).
Would you be able to look into anyone's eyes again after it? I question it...
But, it doesn't need to be that way.

I would like to make you a one time, no negotiable offer.
Purchase $ 2000 in bitcoin and send it on the down below address:
1KMYC79XP*9BqaPZn4fxjqV8tgvoP1ftkTN
[CASE sensitive, copy & paste it, and remove * from it]
(If you don't know how, lookup how to purchase bitcoin. Do not waste my valuable time)

If you send out this particular 'donation' (let us call this that?). After that, I will disappear and never ever make contact with you again. I will erase everything I have got concerning you. You may very well keep on living your current normal day to day life with absolutely no fear.
You've got 1 day in order to do so. Your time begins as soon you check out this e mail. I have an unique program code that will inform me as soon as you read this e mail therefore don't try to play smart.
-------------------------------------------------------------

Have any of you faced this situation before? What would you do?
I would realize that I should've posted it on the 'Fictitious stories' forum, where it belongs
 

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As an IT manager, I am responsible for an email server that filters out more than 12,000 spam and hacker emails weekly. I look through them regularly to determine how best to improve the filters for accuracy.

Anyway, I see a ton of emails like the one above. The vast majority of them can be directly tied to a hack of LinkedIn's servers several years ago in which user's email addresses and LinkedIn passwords were stolen. That gives the email an air of authenticity and strikes fear into the recipient.

Ignore it
 

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also received this last week - mentioned they knew my linked in password, threatened they had accessed my computer camera and would send videos to my facebook contacts

This one has been going on for over a year. One of my staff sent it to me to check out (I’m in IT). Funny thing was that it showed a password she had used in the past. Someone has got the username and pass from a site that was hacked. Since it was a pass she hadn’t used in a few years, it was from one of those data breaches from a few years ago. This is another good reason to change passwords periodically and to not use the same password for all sites.

Yes. The email did indeed show my LinkedIn password. I'll change it as you suggested Squirrel1. I had to change my yahoo password in in 2012. At that time I simultaneously found yahoo informed me my email account was accessed by someone in a strange location and I saw that person had sent the message "Hi" to everyone in my address book.
 
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Yes. The email did indeed show my LinkedIn password. I'll change it as you suggested Squirrel1. I had to change my yahoo password in in 2012. At that time I simultaneously found yahoo informed me my email account was accessed by someone in a strange location and I saw that person had sent the message "Hi" to everyone in my address book.

LinkedIn became aware of the hack of their systems and sent all users a warning about changing their password at the time.

2012 LinkedIn hack - Wikipedia
 
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That's news to me hzs3fg. From your post, and others, I came to realize I'm one of several LinkedIn members that were not informed by them of the past Russian hacker incident.
 

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What happened in the unsolicited email I received yesterday also occured in the plot of an episode of the UK TV series Black Mirror. Email as follows: { with my details altered to maintain my anonymity}:

From:ntabwobaja2020@yahoo.com ................................................Date:April 27, 2020
To:blankman@yahoo.com

I am aware, sailboat2020, is your password.
I need your full attention for the next 24 hours, or I will certainly make sure you that you live out of guilt for the rest of your life span.
Hi, you do not know me. Yet I know all the things regarding you. All of your facebook contact list, phone contacts plus all the virtual activity in your computer from past 169 days.
Including, your self pleasure video, which brings me to the primary motive why I am crafting this particular email to you.
Well the previous time you visited the sexually graphic online sites, my spyware ended up being triggered inside your computer which ended up shooting a eye-catching video of your self pleasure play by activating your webcam. (you got a seriously unusual preference btw lol)
I have got the full recording. If, perhaps you think I am fooling around, simply reply proof and I will be forwarding the particular recording randomly to 11 people you know.
It may be your friends, co workers, boss, parents (I don't know! My system will randomly choose the contacts).
Would you be able to look into anyone's eyes again after it? I question it...
But, it doesn't need to be that way.

I would like to make you a one time, no negotiable offer.
Purchase $ 2000 in bitcoin and send it on the down below address:
1KMYC79XP*9BqaPZn4fxjqV8tgvoP1ftkTN
[CASE sensitive, copy & paste it, and remove * from it]
(If you don't know how, lookup how to purchase bitcoin. Do not waste my valuable time)

If you send out this particular 'donation' (let us call this that?). After that, I will disappear and never ever make contact with you again. I will erase everything I have got concerning you. You may very well keep on living your current normal day to day life with absolutely no fear.
You've got 1 day in order to do so. Your time begins as soon you check out this e mail. I have an unique program code that will inform me as soon as you read this e mail therefore don't try to play smart.
-------------------------------------------------------------

Have any of you faced this situation before? What would you do?

1. Check your email in haveibeenpwned.
Like someone mentioned, the password probably came from an old data breach.

2. Change passwords (Get a password Manager!)

3. Cover you webcam.
Even Mark Zuckerberg does it.

4. Ignore the message.

bonus question: How freaky you got? ;)

Unless is child porn let us know.
 
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Also if you're worried about this kind of thing even though it's extremely unlikely to ever happen, aside from the old tape over the lens trick you can disable your webcam in device manager.

And modern laptops usually have a physical switch that disables the built-in camera.
 
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I got the same email last week! Ignored it. My IPad has pics of my cats - send it out.

But I, too, didn’t know it came from LinkedIn. I never got an email. :(
 
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And so, I do not quite understand your information, but I have long been convinced that providing my data to others will lead to serious consequences. I had a situation in which I became a victim of scammers who began to blackmail me with my personal data and messages. It was hard for me to realize that I had become a victim of sextortion. The scammers demanded to take intimate photos or send a large amount of money, but I'm afraid. I would like to resolve this conflict in a different way. Please any help on this.
 

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And so, I do not quite understand your information, but I have long been convinced that providing my data to others will lead to serious consequences. I had a situation in which I became a victim of scammers who began to blackmail me with my personal data and messages. It was hard for me to realize that I had become a victim of sextortion. The scammers demanded to take intimate photos or send a large amount of money, but I'm afraid. I would like to resolve this conflict in a different way. Please any help on this.
Chances are they have nothing on you. I got one saying they had pictures of me masturbating at my desk.
#1. I don’t masturbate at my desk.
#2. I don’t have a webcam.
These are scare tactics like the IRS phone calls that say you owe money and to send them a wire transfer or bitcoins. People feel guilty that they have done something wrong and fall for it all the time.