Reports of a spam email threatening to reveal sensitive adult content to friends and family unless paid in bitcoin have been surging over the last few days. This bitcoin address was reported twice today alone! 1LEBKnvLEZk2cUfyJ1vU5FpueakWyh4m28
For the last 6 months BitcoinWhosWho has received scam reports relating to some version of an email claiming to have used the recipient’s computer to create a video of recipient visiting adult websites and threatens to send it to recipients’ contacts if not paid $200-$400 in BTC within 20-24 hours. It comes in many languages and has made consistent appearances in our scam reports since October 2017.
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