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Originally Posted by darwinbulldog
Curious if anyone else just received one these "sextortion" emails today. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnb...-says-fbi.html
I received one this evening asking for $1900 in Bitcoin. The reason I'm posting here is the email mentioned a password that I've used for a number of hobby sites (including this one), and I'm trying to figure out which website it was stolen from. Thankfully it's not a password I've used for banking or work, but still. |
I was lucky enough to win on Intertops Casino last week and just received its bitcoin payment today. About two hours later I received a sextortion email. It included the common blah blah blah cut and paste malarkey re: my webcam and some ancient password scraped from one of the billions of data breaches over the past 15 years.
I've traced Intertops blockhchains before and the way I would describe their bi-weekly disbursment is like an ocean tanker covered in barnacles (scammers). They know who received bitcoin via email addresses but thats IT. There is absolutely no way to trace them due to the nature of bitcoin wallets and the spoofing used in the email blast.
If you've used any one password multiple times, change all of them to unique ones without delay. If you want tot follow up or get a look at how common this is, check out
https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/ database.