Just received a Hacking Threat by email

[WWGD]

Human ingenuity at its best, the delivery system has now changed:

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I received this email in my junk folder. While taking the screenshot, I was hovering over the "View messages" button and you can see the beginning of the link at the bottom: The usual message is now written as a query to Google translate! ("More information" and "Change" links are the same.)

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Probably done this way because spam filters caught up to them but, on the upside, if English wasn't the language of your mark, let the Big Guys help you reach them!

I've received a few more myself, essentially identical to the one in the OP. I haven't bothered to check if the bitcoins referenced in different messages are the same . I assume they'd have just one bitcoin per scammer.

 

[Motore]

I just flagged them once as spam or phishing and Gmail automatically sends all the similar ones now to spam, so I am not bothered anymore. Which email service do you use? I presume all the popular ones already do this automatically.

 

[WWGD]

Hi, got another one, just wanted to report the bitcoin wallet . I'd like to suggest we keep track of them:
The bitcoin wallet here is:
bc1qnpmkx704fcugzuc727axz9dqqnjf904fz2qq8n.
It's different from the one in the previous email.

 

[Tom.G]

Put that BitCoin address into Google search, then, at the end of the main results,
click the link "repeat the search with the omitted results included."

You get things like "Bitcoin Address Lookup"

Have Fun!
Tom

 

[jack action]

Got another one today. It is a much shorter version but still has the same threats, amount, and bitcoin
address.

The unusual thing is this single paragraph:

If you need 44h just Open the calculator and type +,+

Does anyone know what this refers to? It must be some trick related to a Windows calculator, but I'm using Linux so I can't check if it gives an unusual answer or opens an Easter egg of some sort.

 

[WWGD]

Got another one today. It is a much shorter version but still has the same threats, amount, and bitcoin
address.

The unusual thing is this single paragraph:

Does anyone know what this refers to? It must be some trick related to a Windows calculator, but I'm using Linux so I can't check if it gives an unusual answer or opens an Easter egg of some sort.

Would you mind including the bitcoin key? Just curious as to whether it's one guy, a few guys.
I've thought of depositing just $0.01 in their wallets, a few times. Just to insult them and annoy them.

 

[DrJohn]

Got another one today. It is a much shorter version but still has the same threats, amount, and bitcoin
address.

The unusual thing is this single paragraph:

Does anyone know what this refers to? It must be some trick related to a Windows calculator, but I'm using Linux so I can't check if it gives an unusual answer or opens an Easter egg of some sort.

It gives an answer of 0
Which I suspect is supposed to mean no extra time.

 

[jack action]

Would you mind including the bitcoin key? Just curious as to whether it's one guy, a few guys.
I've thought of depositing just $0.01 in their wallets, a few times. Just to insult them and annoy them.

The email has already been deleted.

I have never seen the same Bitcoin address in those emails. This is normal as a Bitcoin address is meant to be used only for one transaction, even though it can technically be reused. Reusing an address might help identify the owner and a smart hacker wouldn't make that mistake. For more info: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address_reuse

 

[WWGD]

The email has already been deleted.

I have never seen the same Bitcoin address in those emails. This is normal as a Bitcoin address is meant to be used only for one transaction, even though it can technically be reused. Reusing an address might help identify the owner and a smart hacker wouldn't make that mistake. For more info: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address_reuse

Ok. I doubt any of these attempts are by smart hacerse. They all use almost the same identical scripts, for one. If they were able to do what they actually claim they're able to do, they'd likely be able to get white hacker or at least legit, high-paying jobs.
Edit: I posted my key in my above post.

 

[JT Smith]

I find the presumption by the hacker(s) that everybody is watching porn videos and masturbating in front of their computers pretty funny. Maybe it's true most of the time? What percentage of men do this??

I also want to note that the screen name "Jack Action" fits that profile.

 

[WWGD]

I find the presumption by the hacker(s) that everybody is watching porn videos and masturbating in front of their computers pretty funny. Maybe it's true most of the time? What percentage of men do this??

I also want to note that the screen name "Jack Action" fits that profile.

Still, masturbating isn't illegal. You'll have the entire 13+ population in prison, no one available to guard them if it was.

 

[jack action]

I also want to note that the screen name "Jack Action" fits that profile.

If hackers use my email based on my screen name they will be deceived as I don't have a camera, so that is how I know, 100% sure, these emails pretending to have pictures/videos of me doing anything are fake.

And if there was a camera they would only find me glutting on poutine and ketchup chips while on PF, like any good Canadian.

 

[WWGD]

If hackers use my email based on my screen name they will be deceived as I don't have a camera, so that is how I know, 100% sure, these emails pretending to have pictures/videos of me doing anything are fake.

And if there was a camera they would only find me glutting on poutine and ketchup chips while on PF, like any good Canadian.

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Poutine on the Ritz, I see.

 

[WWGD]

Yet another one, same content, though this time more brazen.
Rather than using an email (supposedly) randomly-generated within my PC, they used a standard email account:
dcheek@hoflink.com
I'll look into it more carefully.

 

[WWGD]

I've come to suspect that hackers obtained my email address by accessing metadata from pics and other links. Not PF, though. I'm looking for software to prevent it from happening.