email scams anyone else

[The Viking]

getting the below email ? im not worried about the content as i know i havent been doing what the mail says but.
what worries me is the password they gave out there as its a password i have used on several casino sites?
so how, why and were can it be from.


It seems that, xxxxxxx - is your password. You may not know me and you are probably wondering why you are getting this e-mail, right?

Actually, I setup a malware on the adult vids (porno) web-site and guess what, you visited this site to have fun (you know what I mean). While you were watching videos, your internet browser started out functioning as a RDP (Remote Desktop) having a keylogger which gave me accessibility to your screen and web cam. After that, my software program obtained all of your contacts from your Messenger, FB, as well as email.

What did I do?

I backuped phone. All the photo, video and contacts.
I created a double-screen video. 1st part shows the video you were watching (you’ve got a good taste haha ...), and 2nd part shows the recording of your web cam.

What exactly should you do?

Well, I think, $800 is a good price for our little secret. You’ll make the payment by Bitcoin (if you do not know this, search “how to buy bitcoin” in Google).

BTC Address: 1BARBfTXdwaRenZjcG8t2LAsbQm6abfw13
(It is cAsE sensitive, so you should copy and paste it)

Important:
You have TWO days(48 h) in order to make the payment. (I’ve a unique pixel in this email, and at tis moment I know that you have read through this email message). If I do not get the BitCoins, I will certainly send out your video recording to all of your contacts including relatives, coworkers, and so on. Having said that, if I receive the payment - I’ll destroy the video immediately. If you need evidence, reply with “Yes!” and I'll send out your video recording to your 6 contacts. It is a non-negotiable offer, so don’t waste my and yours time by responding to this message

 

[kretz1]

 

[ESCJAMIE]

How would they know your password thats scary

 

[kretz1]

How would they know your password thats scary

keylogger, it's simple really

 

[SpinUk]

Keylogger from just viewing a website without clicking a disguised executionable? Is that possible?

 

[The Viking]

keylogger, it's simple really

yeah i know but i dont have keylogger installed just scanned for it again , any programs you guys you can reckomend for me to try scan for it ?
the other 4 i have tried didnt find anything

 

[shadow123]

Sounds real for a change, what on earth have you been looking at?

 

[Betreels Casino & Sports]

The could have got your password by purchasing or hacking a list from a site you signed up at. I know Facebook was hacked a short while ago and 50 million records stolen. Personally, I would simply ignore it. There is nothing to be gained by sending the video out to your contacts. I would also send the email with the email headers over to your local police department or cyber crime division.

Also best to run all the available tools to remove spyware, cookies, keystroke loggers etc.

 

[kretz1]

yeah i know but i dont have keylogger installed just scanned for it again , any programs you guys you can reckomend for me to try scan for it ?
the other 4 i have tried didnt find anything

I'm not that up to date with todays different viruses, before you had to press a link or similar.
Now I don't think it matters, everything develop fast these days.. Malwarebytes is OK

 

[SpinUk]

Speculative email. If they had evidence they would send a screen capture with them email.

So I call bullshit

 

[keegannye]

sounds like that movie where if you watch the movie and dont show someone else within 6 days you die..... scary

 

[The Viking]

The could have got your password by purchasing or hacking a list from a site you signed up at. I know Facebook was hacked a short while ago and 50 million records stolen. Personally, I would simply ignore it. There is nothing to be gained by sending the video out to your contacts. I would also send the email with the email headers over to your local police department or cyber crime division.

Also best to run all the available tools to remove spyware, cookies, keystroke loggers etc.

Yeah i ignore as i said not been doing any noughty stuff here or signed up at pornsite for that matter
It was mainly the password im worried about
Its not my Facebook password but one i used on most Rival casinos in the past also have it on 3-4 here on CM that i signed up on few years back so the password is not new but still its in use
So of to find out were

 

[slotter999]

yeah i know but i dont have keylogger installed just scanned for it again , any programs you guys you can reckomend for me to try scan for it ?
the other 4 i have tried didnt find anything

If you are sure that you are not the source of the compromise then most likely explanation is one of the casinos has been compromised and they've got your email + password that way.

If you used distinct passwords everywhere you could easily identify where the compromise happened. But who really uses distinct passwords everywhere? Probably the same people who back up their data on a weekly basis

 

[ternur]

It's a scam. If they actually got the password right, that might have been harvested from a data breach of some site. Just change the password on the sites you're using it.

Similar scam has been around these parts as well.

 

[mack341]

I certainly wouldn't pay this scum any money, they'll only come after more till they milk you dry, and if there was a vid still send it out due to being vindictive scroats

I’ve a unique pixel in this email, and at tis moment I know that you have read through this email message

I'm no tech expert but this sounds like crud to me, obviously a 48 hr time limit is pointless if you never saw the email at the time when he presumes you did, so he makes up this tosh.

 

[kretz1]

yeah, contact the police and also change your passwords.

 

[dunover]

Don't worry about it, it's an old scam been around a while:

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[dunover]

I certainly wouldn't pay this scum any money, they'll only come after more till they milk you dry, and if there was a vid still send it out due to being vindictive scroats



I'm no tech expert but this sounds like crud to me, obviously a 48 hr time limit is pointless if you never saw the email at the time when he presumes you did, so he makes up this tosh.

An unfortunate choice of words.

 

[colinsunderland]

The could have got your password by purchasing or hacking a list from a site you signed up at. I know Facebook was hacked a short while ago and 50 million records stolen. Personally, I would simply ignore it. There is nothing to be gained by sending the video out to your contacts. I would also send the email with the email headers over to your local police department or cyber crime division.

Also best to run all the available tools to remove spyware, cookies, keystroke loggers etc.

Just going to mention here, Facebook wasn't hacked and they wouldn't get access to passwords, the 50 million was an estimate based on everyone who had used certain functions. It was a security token flaw that might have allowed a breach, rather than a hack.

The password in the OP will have been taken from a breach, have a check on

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to see if your email address has been compromised

I get these all the time, funny how they recorded me considering I don't have a webcam

 

[helenakp]

getting the below email ? im not worried about the content as i know i havent been doing what the mail says but.
what worries me is the password they gave out there as its a password i have used on several casino sites?
so how, why and were can it be from.


It seems that, xxxxxxx - is your password. You may not know me and you are probably wondering why you are getting this e-mail, right?

Actually, I setup a malware on the adult vids (porno) web-site and guess what, you visited this site to have fun (you know what I mean). While you were watching videos, your internet browser started out functioning as a RDP (Remote Desktop) having a keylogger which gave me accessibility to your screen and web cam. After that, my software program obtained all of your contacts from your Messenger, FB, as well as email.

What did I do?

I backuped phone. All the photo, video and contacts.
I created a double-screen video. 1st part shows the video you were watching (you’ve got a good taste haha ...), and 2nd part shows the recording of your web cam.

What exactly should you do?

Well, I think, $800 is a good price for our little secret. You’ll make the payment by Bitcoin (if you do not know this, search “how to buy bitcoin” in Google).

BTC Address: 1BARBfTXdwaRenZjcG8t2LAsbQm6abfw13
(It is cAsE sensitive, so you should copy and paste it)

Important:
You have TWO days(48 h) in order to make the payment. (I’ve a unique pixel in this email, and at tis moment I know that you have read through this email message). If I do not get the BitCoins, I will certainly send out your video recording to all of your contacts including relatives, coworkers, and so on. Having said that, if I receive the payment - I’ll destroy the video immediately. If you need evidence, reply with “Yes!” and I'll send out your video recording to your 6 contacts. It is a non-negotiable offer, so don’t waste my and yours time by responding to this message

Got the same email last night and today

 

[KasinoKing]

getting the below email ? im not worried about the content as i know i havent been doing what the mail says but.
what worries me is the password they gave out there as its a password i have used on several casino sites?
so how, why and were can it be from.

As per Dunover's thread about this earlier, I had the exact same e-mail a few times.
My password had only been used on a few sites, and I narrowed it down to definitely being obtained from my Facebook account.

As further proof of this, I changed my Facebook password, and since then I have had at least half a dozen more of these scam mails, but now they DON'T say they have my password.
Make of that what you will...

KK

 

[Oscar Arnhem]

it was all over the news last week in the netherlands,its a BIG scam.

Just ignore it and DONT pay

 

[dionysus]

im a single, healthy male. If someone decided to threaten to tell all my friends and family I watch porn, their response would probably be...um, d'uh

 

[goatwack]

If someone wants to record and send the mirror image of a 39 year-old unshaven scruffian clumsily fumbling around in haste then be my guest. Ain't no thing

 

[deaconk78]

unless someone starts sending you pictures of yourself sat at your desktop pc etc then ignore it but if you have ever logged into a public computer or even a friends computer to check your fb , emails or your casino transactions and it saved your password then it only takes about 10 seconds to turn those ******* into visible text .

this is a scam though as pointed out by several people - some will fall for it .. imagine just 10 people out of 100,000 at £800 quid a time .

This is one of the reasons you should change your passwords regularly .

By the way - if some had key logged you then they would have either emptied your casinos accounts / bank accounts for themselves or spun away your balances to zero if they couldn't remove it for their personal use .

 

[dionysus]

oh great - i mention porn and suddenly im downgraded to 'grey'

 

[dionysus]

If someone wants to record and send the mirror image of a 39 year-old unshaven scruffian clumsily fumbling around in haste then be my guest. Ain't no thing

I look at it this way - I took gym all through school, played sports, swim at public pools, and work out at the Y
It's an empty threat because it's more an uh, who HASNT seen Dio's wang

 

[LHofsdal]

It just makes sick that people resort to this crap....I always get the emails stating that I owe 8 grand for a payday loan that I never paid back. They are illegal in New York State and they always want their money in a gift card and I have 45 minutes to get it and call them with the gift card number. BAHAHHAHAHAHAHA I always reply with the same message...

OHHHHHHHH please tell me where I have to send my payment...I can't go to jail.....You F'n A$$HOLE, I live in NY and it is illegal for anyone to process a payday loan in New York and proof read your "offical" e-mail. You sound illiterate and uneducated!

And then when they call on the phone I answer Federal Bureau of Investigation, Agent Hofsdal speaking badge number 89774 can help you...They hang up lol.

 

[shadow123]

My turn today,going to change the password and leave it at that.

 

[dunover]

Look, make sure you crack one off under a high table so any snoops via your webcam can only see your face. Then if the worst comes to the worst you can say you had an itchy nose, a cold, toothache or something.

 

[dunover]

I look at it this way - I took gym all through school, played sports, swim at public pools, and work out at the Y
It's an empty threat because it's more an uh, who HASNT seen Dio's wang

All of those whom need glasses?

 

[shadow123]

really wouldnt want anyone to link my face with whats going on under the table, even i dont want to look

 

[dicky wink]

Hi Guys
I have had about 20+ of these emails over the last 2 months ... the thing that i noticed was that on everyone the password quoted was a password that i only used on one site only, which was on the UK National Lottery website, and when i googled i found the national lottery had a data breach early in the year ... and had warned people to change their passwords... which i did ... and even today i had one of these emails still quoting that old password

Like most people i used to have a standard password for most sites ... which leaves you very open ... but at the same time you cant be expected to remember a different password for every site
so now i add the first 2 letters of the website name to the standard password so if i get one of these emails again i know where it has been hacked and can quickly change it....

For instance if my standard password was dickywink1922 ( which it is not by the way ) i now have site specific passwords for Ebay: dickywink1922EB and for Paypal: dickywink1922PA and for Casinomeister dickywink1922CA
it gives you a unique password for every login and it makes it easy to remember the password for each site you are logging into

all the best

Dicky

 

[TheAddict]

Todays email.

"Hello, We are Bill and Melinda Gates, you have a donation of 1,800,000.00 EURO. Donating part of my money to five lucky people and ten charity organisation. You email came out victorious. Contact me urgently for claims" [email protected]


Nice one Bill!
No low rolling for me no more, l8erz losers!

 

[robby811]

Todays email.

"Hello, We are Bill and Melinda Gates, you have a donation of 1,800,000.00 EURO. Donating part of my money to five lucky people and ten charity organisation. You email came out victorious. Contact me urgently for claims" [email protected]


Nice one Bill!
No low rolling for me no more, l8erz losers!

You Luck B***** haha

 

[mariafbb]

got this one today from Sundar aperantly

Dear Email User,

You are one of the lucky winners of Google for a total sum on 950,000.00 GBP, view affixed for further details to claim.

Google Team

 

[goatwack]

Imagine being contacted personally by email from the CEO of Google! wow

I'm still waiting for my Nigerian prince uncle to release my investment from a few months ago, cost me enough

 

[lotusch]

Hi I am Nkono Fawaka, a useless unemployed Nigerian scammer, operating from my shady boiler room a.k.a internet café in the slums of Lagos and my daily task is to scam people for as much money as I can so I can give it to my pit boss, in return I will get 3 HIV positive Nubian Princesses and a tub of lube.

 

[goatwack]

It's the IRS phone calls from India that are the best. Especially when they threaten to send the police round your house

 

[robby811]

you all are rich Users now i only got emails with pictures like this:

 

[TheAddict]

This was a few months ago.
Not sure if this came as a result of 888 staff selling my details or what. But, whoever sent this did get the timeframe correct of when i played poker at 888 (and i think i may have sent ecogra a question regarding complaints about 888 when i played poker there, which was some 8-9 years ago now lol.
The reason i thought perhaps one of the 888 staff sold my info is because the account name they refferred to at 888 which i used at the time, was indeed correct as well. But 888 staff wouldnt have known i ever complained to ecogra, but im not 100% i did. Only 75%.


Title: i'll help with incidents with pacific poker (ECOGRA'S request #3767)

Hi Mr. adam xxxxxx ! You have left a complaint on 2010-01-18 on eCOGRA #3767. Account : "xxxxxxx". I will resolve your dispute with the service in a short time, for a reward. Pay the amount equivalent to 30 USD per bitcoin purse: 357DNTjKQ5cW1C8KnzU97DWdfAcpDWj6hU. The result will take less than 3 working days from the date of payment. In the payment comment specify the request number: "3767". If your payment details have changed, please indicate them in the comments to the payment, after the request number. (example: "3767; VISA 1111-2222-3333-444"). In the end, you will receive a confirmation e-mail from me."


Emailed ecogra just to let them know really, and also because i had a flashback that i may well of made a complaint at that time so wondered if it was somethng to do with an staff member at ecogra selling complaint details or something being hacked, since i was suprised the person who sent it to me knew the account name i played with at 888, the time of playing 888, and my email.


The director at ecogra replied with this:

"Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It is definitely a scam and does not appear to have originated from any of our databases as the reference numbers do not exist. At the time of the alleged dispute we did not use reference numbers and over the past 3 years our dispute reference numbers look like this [xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxxx]]. On top of this, they have also targeted me with emails almost identical to the one sent to you, and I have obviously never submitted a dispute. We are investigating where this originated and will take whatever action is available to us. Best regards "

 

[robby811]

This was a few months ago.
Not sure if this came as a result of 888 staff selling my details or what. But, whoever sent this did get the timeframe correct of when i played poker at 888 (and i think i may have sent ecogra a question regarding complaints about 888 when i played poker there, which was some 8-9 years ago now lol.
The reason i thought perhaps one of the 888 staff sold my info is because the account name they refferred to at 888 which i used at the time, was indeed correct as well. But 888 staff wouldnt have known i ever complained to ecogra, but im not 100% i did. Only 75%.


Title: i'll help with incidents with pacific poker (ECOGRA'S request #3767)

Hi Mr. adam xxxxxx ! You have left a complaint on 2010-01-18 on eCOGRA #3767. Account : "xxxxxxx". I will resolve your dispute with the service in a short time, for a reward. Pay the amount equivalent to 30 USD per bitcoin purse: 357DNTjKQ5cW1C8KnzU97DWdfAcpDWj6hU. The result will take less than 3 working days from the date of payment. In the payment comment specify the request number: "3767". If your payment details have changed, please indicate them in the comments to the payment, after the request number. (example: "3767; VISA 1111-2222-3333-444"). In the end, you will receive a confirmation e-mail from me."


Emailed ecogra just to let them know really, and also because i had a flashback that i may well of made a complaint at that time so wondered if it was somethng to do with an staff member at ecogra selling complaint details or something being hacked, since i was suprised the person who sent it to me knew the account name i played with at 888, the time of playing 888, and my email.


The director at ecogra replied with this:

"Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It is definitely a scam and does not appear to have originated from any of our databases as the reference numbers do not exist. At the time of the alleged dispute we did not use reference numbers and over the past 3 years our dispute reference numbers look like this [xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxxx]]. On top of this, they have also targeted me with emails almost identical to the one sent to you, and I have obviously never submitted a dispute. We are investigating where this originated and will take whatever action is available to us. Best regards "

Few month ago? And you still collected it? Are you serious

 

[TheAddict]

Haha, i deleted the email mate.. if by "collected" it you mean i kept the email.
But i never deleted the reply from the director at ecogra, which had all the original details, quoted back to me in full
Deleting emails is futile for me, my email address dates back to when dialup internet became available, the address ending in 'hotmail.com'. Probably be hard to find a scammer who doesn't have my addy by now

 

[colinsunderland]

Haha, i deleted the email mate.. if by "collected" it you mean i kept the email.
But i never deleted the reply from the director at ecogra, which had all the original details, quoted back to me in full

When a scam fails....

Transactions
No. Transactions 7
Total Received 0.01538267 BTC

so not very rich in a few months

 

[TheAddict]

LOL

 

[colinsunderland]

This was a few months ago.
Not sure if this came as a result of 888 staff selling my details or what. But, whoever sent this did get the timeframe correct of when i played poker at 888 (and i think i may have sent ecogra a question regarding complaints about 888 when i played poker there, which was some 8-9 years ago now lol.
The reason i thought perhaps one of the 888 staff sold my info is because the account name they refferred to at 888 which i used at the time, was indeed correct as well. But 888 staff wouldnt have known i ever complained to ecogra, but im not 100% i did. Only 75%.


Title: i'll help with incidents with pacific poker (ECOGRA'S request #3767)

Hi Mr. adam xxxxxx ! You have left a complaint on 2010-01-18 on eCOGRA #3767. Account : "xxxxxxx". I will resolve your dispute with the service in a short time, for a reward. Pay the amount equivalent to 30 USD per bitcoin purse: 357DNTjKQ5cW1C8KnzU97DWdfAcpDWj6hU. The result will take less than 3 working days from the date of payment. In the payment comment specify the request number: "3767". If your payment details have changed, please indicate them in the comments to the payment, after the request number. (example: "3767; VISA 1111-2222-3333-444"). In the end, you will receive a confirmation e-mail from me."


Emailed ecogra just to let them know really, and also because i had a flashback that i may well of made a complaint at that time so wondered if it was somethng to do with an staff member at ecogra selling complaint details or something being hacked, since i was suprised the person who sent it to me knew the account name i played with at 888, the time of playing 888, and my email.


The director at ecogra replied with this:

"Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It is definitely a scam and does not appear to have originated from any of our databases as the reference numbers do not exist. At the time of the alleged dispute we did not use reference numbers and over the past 3 years our dispute reference numbers look like this [xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxxx]]. On top of this, they have also targeted me with emails almost identical to the one sent to you, and I have obviously never submitted a dispute. We are investigating where this originated and will take whatever action is available to us. Best regards "

Now has an amazing £41

Transactions
No. Transactions 7
Total Received 0.01538267 BTC
Final Balance 0 BTC

same as before haha.
I quite often check the balances are rarely see more than 2 or 3 transaction from the millions of emails they send out

 

[Scott1baird]

you all are rich Users now i only got emails with pictures like this:

I just stole this PIC and sent to to everyone on my Facebook friends list

 

[Guntis]

You can check your email through this

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service to find out if your email got in wrong hands.

 

[DreamRJ]

I get soo many junk. It really frustrates and annoys me.

I am forever reporting 50-100 emails each day, but there is emails I can not report because they mask their email address and put my email address in the senders email address. So I then just have to delete those ones.

But I will give you all a run down of the types I get.

Main culprits: Bitcoin spammy emails, Lottery win phishing emails, sexy girl spammy emails, erection emails, viagra emails, then once in a while I get an email that says my computer has been hacked phishing emails. Those ones are the funniest ones as they even mention a password for my computer that is totally not my password lol. Then Honourable mention is the email that says my email address has been hacked as well and those emails also show a password and again that password is not real either. I mean are they really that stupid and dumb? People are really that stupid to think an email like that is genuine when the password listed in the email is wrong, that is and should be a warning sign to you that it is just a phishing scam email.

So yeah sick of the junk, but we will always get them. Doesn't matter how many times we report or delete such emails either.

 

[Arians]

Guys, how do I protect myself from Scam sites? Is there any article or video that talks about this topic?