Being blackmailed just now

It's spam/fraud. They do not have such a video. Delete their message and move on.

 

Never give money to such kind of people. You never know if he isn't anyway going to post that material.
Just ignore him

 

Thats a rather well known scam

Ignore it and delete the inbox message of it its a realy lame scam

 

I have heard many people receiving such messages. Not a single one was carried through. However, it should be a wake up call for you. I mean, you wouldn't find a better reason to stop. lol

 

Happened to me too. It works like this: Sometimes website servers are hacked and the hacker posts your password and email adress online. Often the hackers also sell the data on a the darkweb. Other scammers go through the endless lists of password + email and write a message to the email containing your password too in order to scare you and make it look more real.

It isn't. It's just a scam that uses outdated stuff from old accounts on a server that has been hacked once.

I will link a website below that can check whether your email adress or data connected below have been posted/shared on the internet. This works by simply inserting your old uni email adress and the website will search throughout on the whole WWW whether it has been shared on a spreadsheet.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

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The email must also contain a bitcoin wallet number, where you are supposed to send the money.

Please check that bitcoin wallet with https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/
you can see there whether others have been scammed by the same wallet-owner too and if none yet immediately report the scam with a simple click in order to freeze the scammers wallet.

 

@UnyieldingAntiHero I love that site, you can set up an alert too so that they emial you if your email address shows up in a new breach

 

Here's a few sources to back up my claim:
https://www.novacomputersolutions.c...nding-to-come-from-your-hacked-email-account/

https://www.planetcompliance.com/20...t-do-not-fall-for-the-latest-sextortion-scam/

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/13/final-warning-email-have-they-really-hacked-your-webcam/

These people pretty much only use templates that they send to thousands and thousands of people.

 

Did you input the mail you received it with or your mail adress the scammer posted?
(Even then it's not 100% fail-proof because there's databreaches all day, everywhere, and not all of them are reported or listed by security sites the engine uses)

But as the wallet has been reported you can still be sure it's a scam. 100% sure there's been a databreach on your old uni's servers and your uni adress and login password were extracted by the hacker along with hundreds or thousands of other people's.

 

Ignore it!

There was a post here months ago about this scam.

For me they even had one of my old passwords from a porn site that I hadn’t used in years. I ignored the threatening email and over a year later am still alive and well, nothing happened.

I mentioned this scam to an SAA brother and he had received the same threatening email with one of his old passwords.

Somehow a scammer got a hold of a bunch of old passwords from sites and uses them to intimidate people.

I’ve read that what happens is if a person responds and sends money the scammer will keep trying to get even more money, constantly using scare tactics.

Delete the email and move on.

 

It's a scam. Don't pay a single penny.

I had this same problem back in 2015, and I rebooted my computer and after that it was gone. You need to have had your important files backed up in an external hard drive or in a partition of your hard drive so that you will not lose your important documents.

 

Give them no quarter. Even if you DID get pwned, paying them doesn't guarantee they won't release the info.

But more than likely, no. No one hacked you. It's most likely a scam.

 

Same thing happened to my dad awhile back.. It is a Scam!

 

I always get them aha. they'd show you the video if they had it.