OT: identity theft?

[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.

[commishbob]

I got some of those a year or two ago. I wanted to tell them that I don't have a camera on this computer but, hey, whatever.

Lots of lists of hacked passwords get passed around among these turds. They don't have lists of you contacts which is one thing I remember being part of the threat. I read that the best thing is just to delete the email and move on.

I'll try and find that article I saw pertaining to this.

EDIT...OK, I clicked thru to the article you linked. Pretty much the same info I read. Delete and move on.

[swarmee]

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...light=freedman
Here's a recent one.

[darwinbulldog]

Originally Posted by swarmee

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...light=freedman
Here's a recent one.

Ah, I did use that password with Goodwin. Story checks out.

[Yastrzemski Sports]

My girlfriend got one today. She thought it may have been an old eBay password.

[darwinbulldog]

Possibly I used it there too, but that would have been many years ago.

[bcornell]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

...a password that I've used for a number of hobby sites (including this one)

You might consider using LastPass or 1Pass or one of the very good add-ons that allow you to generate unique passwords for all sites. You only have to remember a single, long passphrase to get access to all passwords you have.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is a quick, safe way to check if your email address shows up in known data breaches.

Finally, I'll say it again - Bill Goodwin should not be running an auction site in 2020. You might as well leave your front door open.

[Santo10Fan]

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.

[earlywynnfan]

I got one yesterday. Gave me the chills until they told me they were going to let all my facebook contacts see me visiting my favorite porn site.

Considering:
1) Don't visit porn sites
2) Don't have camera on computer
3) Not on facebook

I figure I'll call their bluff!!

[Santo10Fan]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

I got one yesterday. Gave me the chills until they told me they were going to let all my facebook contacts see me visiting my favorite porn site.

Considering:
1) Don't visit porn sites
2) Don't have camera on computer
3) Not on facebook

I figure I'll call their bluff!!

https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/21/1...cam-tape-photo