I just got a ransomware email--what to do?

[Jason Spatafore]

Nothing to worry about. Here's what these people do:

1. Fire up a VPN service on their system

2. Download the known hacked databases (usually via a torrent)

3. Generate email scripts from the hacked databases.

4. Spam people with the same message, substituting the data from the 
hacked database.

There is no side by side video of you watching porn and masturbating. 
The people doing this actually don't have those video editing skills 
(and I doubt they have the computing power to do it either). They just 
know how to run mail merges.

You can always entertain yourself like I do and check their bitcoin 
wallet to see how many people actually buy their BS. Some are 
successful, some are not. (Got to bitref.com and input their bitcoin 
address to see their transactions.)


On 4/23/19 5:32 AM, Stephen Elliott wrote:
> I just received an email claiming a hack of my system and threat to send a porn vid to all my contacts if I don’t pay $800 in bitcoin. How can I know if this is a real threat and what can I do about it?
>
> Stephen
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