BITCOIN SCAMS

Don’t Panic, It’s a Scam

Here are the precautionary measures you need to take as soon as you receive an extortion email

In this digital day and age, theft and extortion are pretty common, when it comes to hackers stealing your data and trying to blackmail you via Bitcoin exchange. Fear takes a toll on you which furthermore creates panic in your heart and mind, which pushes you in making unsafe decisions.

These circumstances can occur in any person’s life when they visit malicious sites preferably XX rated sites or sites that execute cross-site scripts (XSS) that lets attackers place malicious scripts into otherwise trustworthy web pages and apps. Using XSS, hackers can freely disseminate their malware to countless people.

When you visit a XX rated site without proper computer security or web antivirus, these programs get installed on your computer such as keylogger software by the attacker.

A key-logger software reads your keystrokes whether it be your searches, words written, and even your passwords entered through the keyboard of your computer. It hides away from your computer security measure and keeps on transmitting your personal information to the hacker.

After a while, you will receive an email containing a message similar to the image below.

Now you might panic seeing your password in the scam email that the attacker might send you.

Don’t panic, it is a scam. Don’t fall into the pits of fear that they dug up for you.

The attacker knows that the general public would fear such an email stating X and Y information but don’t worry because this is the primary method they use to extort thousands upon thousands of dollars of money through bitcoin while scamming innocent people who don’t understand how the technology works in this modern-day and age.

Doing so you might even become afraid, for your life and the world who might soon realize your search history and other information about you.

This fear would give you unrest, and also put you in a stressful situation, you can’t ask for help because you don’t know who to trust. You will feel afraid knowing your life is coming to an end.

Do not let them fool you! Do not fear! Do not fret!

Here are the precautionary measures that you need to take if you receive such an email.

1. Go to malwarebytes.com and install the spyware detection and removal software. As the attacker has installed malicious software on your computer system, you must remove it as fast as you can, so that you can protect yourself from the key-logger that’s transmitting your information to the hacker.
2. Go to Spyhunter.com and install their software and search for vulnerabilities that might be affecting your system, quarantine and remove them effective immediately.
3. Now go to your emails, Secure them by adding Two-way Factor authentication in the Security options, by adding your mobile number so that whenever somebody logs in they can notify you whether through text or prompts from their application. If you have a Gmail account, Gmail allows you to store prompts that show you if people have logged in from which location and also ask whether it’s you who’s logging into your account.
4. Use Multi-factor authentication and back up emails on every account or service you have that you readily use every day to avert such a crisis if it does arise again because it will, and it can.

After doing these steps, I would advise you to report that email to Bitcoinabuse.com and searching the bitcoin address in their database. You will soon realize that you’re not the only one who has been sent this address, and you will also realize some people who fell to this miserable fate as they sent transactions to the hackers who only had their password that they collected through the key-logger application installed on their computers.

Be careful, of the sites you visit and secure yourself by updating your spyware definitions and taking measures whenever you surf online. If you’re running on a Windows computer, I would advise you to install Windows Defender, and Malware-bytes to keep yourself secure from such attacks and sites.

Furthermore, if you’re on a Mac install Malwarebytes and SpyHunter if you run into a problem such as this one.

If somebody demands money from you and asks you to submit X amounts of money to their bitcoin address, report the email and also the information to Bitcoinabuse.com.

As you can see some poor person fell to this scam losing his precious money over such a lucrative scam.

NOTE

You have to be very careful when it comes to visiting sites through your casual browser. In this day and age where Cross-site scripts can steal your information when you visit different sites and accept cookies. Help yourself against Sextortion and other ways that people can blackmail and scam you!

If you do want to visit such sites, Install Tor. And encrypt yourself from such kinds of people who will violate you through lucrative means of scamming and blackmailing by collecting your personal information and sadly your hard-earned money.

Lastly, If somebody asks you a huge amount of money for removal they are extorting you too, Beware!

God Bless, and Stay Safe!

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Thanks to Terry Mansfield for suggesting me to write on Technology the other day!