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You've been hacked "Hello pervert" Email

I received a message from my own mailbox - what do I do?????


Hello pervert, I've sent this message from your iCloud mail. 

 

I want to inform you about a very bad situation for you. However, you can benefit from it, if you will act wisеly.

 

Have you heard of Pegasus? This is a spyware program that installs on computers and smartphones and allows hackers to monitor the activity of device owners. It provides access to your webcam, messengers, emails, call records, etc. It works well on Android, iOS, and Windows. I guess, you already figured out where I’m getting at.

 

It’s been a few months since I installed it on all your devices because you were not quite choosy about what links to click on the intеrnеt. During this period, I’ve learned about all aspects of your private life, but one is of special significance to me.

 

****

 

I doubt you’d want your friends, family and co-workers to know about it. However, I can do it in a few clicks.

 

Every number in your contact list will suddenly receive these vidеоs– on WhatsApp, on Telegram, on Instagram, on Facebook, on email – everywhere. It is going to be a tsunami that will sweep away everything in its path, and first of all, your fоrmеr life.

 

Don’t think of yourself as an innocent victim. No one knows where your реrvеrsiоn might lead in the future, so consider this a kind of deserved рunishmеnt to stop you.

 

I’m some kind of God who sees everything. However, don’t panic. As we know, God is merciful and forgiving, and so do I. But my mercy is not free.

 

Transfer 800 USD to my Litecoin (LTC) wallet: ltc1q0sfhklq82kxps8kpx7e4el538jf6rs6h3x34ta

 

Once I receive confirmation of the transaction, I will permanently delete all videos compromising you, uninstаll Pegasus from all of your devices, and disappear from your life. You can be sure – my benefit is only money. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be writing to you, but destroy your life without a word in a second.

 

I’ll be notified when you open my email, and from that moment you have exactly 48 hours to send the money. If cryptocurrencies are unchartered waters for you, don’t worry, it’s very simple. Just google “crypto exchange” or "buy Litecoin" and then it will be no harder than buying some useless stuff on Amazon.

 

I strongly warn you against the following:

* Do not reply to this email. I've sent it from your iCloud mail.

* Do not contact the police. I have access to all your devices, and as soon as I find out you ran to the cops, videos will be published.

* Don’t try to reset or destroy your devices. As I mentioned above: I’m monitoring all your activity, so you either agree to my terms or the vidеоs are published.

Also, don’t forget that cryptocurrencies are anonymous, so it’s impossible to identify me using the provided address.

 

Good luck, my perverted friend. I hope this is the last time we hear from each other.

And some friendly advice: from now on, don’t be so careless about your online security.


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Posted on Apr 29, 2024 12:46 PM

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Posted on May 31, 2024 10:23 PM

I also received this same email yesterday. How could they sneak into my email even though I didn't open any links??? Can someone write what happened after 48 hours? thanks

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Jun 5, 2024 5:44 AM in response to Marco1470

Marco1470 wrote:

48 Hours have passed and so far nothing has happened


That 48 hours happened months ago around here.


It’s been an ongoing scam spam campaign.


Given the duration, it’s likely been profitable for the scam spammers.


Receiving many copies of this scam spam do inure, though.


Please adjust the local credulity filters. You will get lied to. By scammers and spammers, advertisers, politicians, foreign and domestic provocateurs, and by entities we’d all prefer to be able to trust. Unfortunately. The less the risk of repercussions, the more likely the lies, and scammers and spammers have near zero rusk.

May 6, 2024 3:27 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

Yes, I read that — but since there’s no evidence of a misspelled “iCloud” in the OP’s post, and you weren’t privy to the raw source, I don’t understand where this misspelling is evident.


Possibly, if the OP wasn’t aware of how to discern a capital “i” from a lower case “L” in “iCloud”, and you summarily claimed that was the case, isn’t there a possibility that, due to your level and points, the OP assumed you nailed it? A sort of ‘argument from authority’ scenario? The email I received doesn’t show such a misspelling, but maybe the scammer read this thread and decided to patch the hole?


My aim here is to learn how to assess an email as fraudulent, and your claim based on someone else’s claim doesn’t help me get there. Would you mind being a bit more helpful? What about DMARC and quarantine?

Jun 3, 2024 7:23 AM in response to Marco1470

Marco1470 wrote:

I also received the email, what should I do?


Delete it, adjust your own personal credulity filter, and move on.


For background, the preceding four pages of replies have explanations of spam and sextortion and related scams.


I opened the message today and it was sent to me on May 26th


This “hello pervert” spam has been being spammed widely for months.


I’m mildly surprised the Apple spam filters aren’t catching this.


HELP


Welcome to the many folks that have received this spam. Delete it. Move on.



Jun 1, 2024 4:02 PM in response to Simiooo

Simiooo wrote:

I got the same email on Wednesday, I opened it today tho, what happened after 48 hours for you?


Nothing. For many months.


But if you want or need to believe the scammers and their claims, you could certainly choose to pay off the scammers. Which will encourage more spam and more scams sent everywhere more generally, and will more specifically make you a far more valuable target to re-sell your info for further re-scamming.


And of course, your pay off is also completely dependent on the scammers being completely truthful and honest, because scammers are always truthful and honest. And scammers never return to you for more money. And scammers never re-sell your willingness to pay to other scammers, and of course scammers will never resell those photos you want to believe they have to others anyway.


Parker certainly re-sold the Brooklyn Bridge, after all.

Jun 5, 2024 2:15 PM in response to Mac Jim ID

I also got this email yesterday morning :) looks like the scammers are just doing their rounds scaring innocent people, I blocked the sender, deleted the email and moved on. In the uk you can also report scam emails by forwarding the email to the phishing report email address which I decided to do 🙂 If you’re seeing the email on a phone you can press the “I have hacked you” above your email address it will take you to a contact screen where you can see the actual email it was sent from. Although I wouldn’t recommend emailing them back it definitely put my mind at ease that they definitely don’t have access to your account 🙂

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