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Sextortion With Password Email Scam Variant Makes 22.67BTC Over First 3 Weeks

Don’t pay it! No matter how convincing inclusion of that old password you used to use makes it seem, they don’t have video of you doing that. Don’t be embarrassed, if you considered paying the ransom email you’re not alone. So far 101 victims have sent 22.67 BTC to 37 of the 176 bitcoin addresses so far reported to be related to the new sextortion with/password scam email variation that first appeared July 10. Reports of previous versions of the same sextortion tactic without the password portion have been reaching us since October 2017. Inclusion of a password is unique over the last three weeks. Continue reading Sextortion With Password Email Scam Variant Makes 22.67BTC Over First 3 Weeks

Bitcoin Porn Blackmail Scam Moved to Poloniex Wallet

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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