blackmail

This message purports to be from a hacker who has infected your account and “exploited your email and system”. 

Sextortion scams are increasingly common. Scammers use a variety of dirty tricks to convince potential victims that the claims in their fake blackmail messages are true.

According to this email, a “spyware software developer” has installed a rootkit on your device that has recorded “photos and videos of your most passionate funs with adult content. 

According to this email, the sender has infected your computer with malware and was thus able to record video of you when you visited a porn website.

Supposedly, a hacker created screenshots of you while you were “having fun on web-sites of personal content” (porn sites) and also installed malware that harvested all of your contacts.

This email claims that the sender has used a “private computer worm” to create a video of you “caressing your body” while you visited a porn website. 

This email, which claims to be from “your future friend or enemy”, claims that the sender has recorded video of you while…

According to this email, the sender used malware to record compromising video of you while you were visiting an x-rated website. And, claims the sender,  this malware also gathered all of your contacts from your email and Facebook accounts.

Sextortion scammers have lately been including user passwords in their scam emails as a way of making their false claim seem more plausible. And, in another variation, the scammers include part of the recipient’s phone number instead of the password.

This email claims that the sender has recorded a video of you “doing dirty things” while visiting an adult website.