The bitcoin “sextortion” scam is officially global. Bitcoin Who’s Who received reports of the now infamous email from people in 42 different countries in September.
Almost a third of the scam reports came from the United States. Continue reading 42 Countries Report Sextortion Email Scam
When reports of this email scam first started appearing last September the perpetrators were discovered to be using a Matbea wallet. That appears to have changed. On May 30 every output transaction from hundreds of reported blackmail scam addresses went to a Poloniex wallet address.
These bitcoin addresses were reported as scams related to the porn blackmail email:
12UCMcAseQK2syjQWRpnbc8tUtzxzZG9kS
15LKRRYM2k2CCSGT76rNbQmciLZJSxKXAx
18aVwkFAadCvwGBHN8vagouWBWrNEpZAaV
Each of them shows an output to 1E2J2DAFGToqmTxK5H8fG6V3Tp3xqSiAm4 on May 30, 2018.
A quick investigation shows 1E2J2DAFGToqmTxK5H8fG6V3Tp3xqSiAm4 is among the Poloniex wallet cluster.
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Continue reading Bitcoin Porn Blackmail Scam Moved to Poloniex Wallet
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.
See Also:
SEXTORTION EMAIL SCAM VARIANT MAKES 22.67BTC OVER FIRST 3 WEEKS – July 26, 2018
I KNOW YOUR PASSWORD BITCOIN EXTORTION EMAIL VARIANT– July 13, 2018
BITCOIN PORN BLACKMAIL SCAM MOVED TO POLONIEX WALLET– June 2, 2018
BitcoinWhosWho.com started receiving reports of a mass email attempting to blackmail recipients out of bitcoin about a month ago. The hilariously worded text always closes with “sorry for misprints, I am foreign”. Rudimentary block exploring shows at least some of these scam addresses are being consolidated on the Russian wallet service Matbea.com. Continue reading Blackmail Scam Run on Russian Wallet Matbea
