How to stop Pegasus Spyware email spam?

Yep, entirely possible to gain that information from data on the internet. There have been many data breaches from a multitude of companies and you can find out if your data has been compromised by entering your email address. Some of the sites provided by those companies will give partial information so you can confirm if that data is actually yours. They even include partial SS# which may be correct or incorrect. Once they are able to get your address, then a Google Street view of your house is very easy.

These steps have all been automated by scammers and will gather this information and send it to you in an email to make you believe they have more information and demand money. This is a typical scare tactic and they do not have the information that they are claiming.

The scammers sound more convincing due to the many data breaches over the past few years. The latest being a massive trove of Social Security data.

That gives crooks lots of information. One of the simplest is having your street address, which makes it drop dead easy to do a Google Maps search to get those pictures. Combine that with a valid email address and it all looks very convincing.

However, such as in your case, they don't really have enough information to zero the scam in. Like the incomplete SS number. Old street view images (which really just means the camera truck/car hasn't been through your area in a while).

At least you were aware it was a scam and knew to ignore it.

gizzard16 wrote:

I agree it is a scam however they do have all my information in the email though the ss# is all x’d out but for the last two numbers which are wrong. Lastly a picture of the house across the road. Its a picture of pine trees along my neighbors backyard fence. Odd those trees were cut down over a year ago, which tells me it is a street view likely google maps. Google earth car drive by here about 2 years ago i remember this a security alert from a security camera on my fence the recorded it going west

Anyway my information is out on the web because of a Llc company I owned. But for the trees and the SSN I would probably believe the email. Nope no gottcha not this time

Anybody that tells you the social security number is secret is someone best ignored.

The de facto US national ID number — the social security number — is not a useful authenticator. It’s not secret.

(For some of us, the assigned number is entirely predictable, given a few other already-public details.)

The clues that this is a scam are the urgency, the use of fear, and the use of very basic advertising and propaganda techniques, and the lack of actual proof of anything outside of what amounts to public data and record. The one thing that this scam claims to have — those photos — they don't actually show.

scam my mail program marked as junk but the mail did not come from you he sticks your email as a header, if you view the source of his email , or the alleged one that came from your account you will see it actually come from this address from (me942.com unknown [109.172.38.168]) <==== with this IP. clearly not icloud. delete it and move on with your day nothing will happen.

no they can't do anything to you they don't have access to your account Pegasus is not on your mac, mac security would ketch that, you are find delete the scam mail and move on. people saying pegasus is real yes it is very real but think about it why would it be on your mac, in order to install something on your mac you would yourself had to install it threw some link, but you would have known if you did for sure. or he would have had to have direct access to your mac. nothing is on your mac you are find. if you want peace of mind download the free version of malwarebytes run it and call it a day.

Delete it. It’s a scam.

I just opened the exact e-mail they sent you. Is it a scam or not?

Read the topic you posted in. Then you wouldn't have needed to create yet another response.

is this definitely a hoax? the pegasus spy ware software is real apparently

its a scam

I just received scammed email

I know it’s a scam but how did they send an email to myself from my own id about Pegasus ?

Is that serious ? They can login to my emails and can changed everything?

They use a program to find everyones icloud mail, dont worry its chainmail or a scam