There’s a terrifying new e-mail scam that’s been making the rounds and it’s one that everyone should be on the lookout for.
Now, for the details of this scam:
— You’ll receive an email from scammers/hackers and in the subject line will be one of your old passwords. They’ve grabbed this password from one of the countless huge data breaches over the past several years (LinkedIn, DropBox, Yahoo!, Tumblr, etc).
— The hacker sending you the email will tell you that they’ve used that password to hack into your computer where they’ve installed malware, malware that records video through your webcam without you being able to see that the webcam’s on.
— They will then tell you that they have videos of you watching pornography online and doing whatever it is that you do while watching pornography.
— Then they request a payment of somewhere between $1,200 or $1,600 in Bitcoin to be sent or they threaten to send the sensitive videos to everyone in your contacts list.
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