The e-mails expired still according to a fixed pattern, according to Safe On Web. According to the cybercriminal has the victim been hacked and was he or she already watched. Then follows a chilling statement. “I was amazed at the sites with dedicated content that you regularly look at. [...] When you find yourself amused at the piquant websites (you know what I mean!) I took a photo through the camera of your device. Then I placed the viewed content next to it. Your friends will laugh when I give them these snaps forward!”, according to one of the e-mails. the
The scammers are threatening to make the images with all contacts, unless the victim is a hefty sum of money to pay. Cost? Between 800 and 2,000 euros, preferably to pay in cryptovaluta such as bitcoin. Sometimes a user will get 24 hours time to make money with it on the bridge, sometimes 48 hours. But the threat remains the same: “With a press of a button can I use this video to forward to all of your contacts from your email and social media.”
Internet Safe On the Web, a department of the Centre for Cyber security Belgium, warns of a wave of ‘sextortion’emails which cyber criminals try to get users to extort. The scammers claim that they are the victim filmed while pornowebsites visited. Noteworthy: some cyber criminals even identify the correct password of the user.