Questions tagged [blackmail]

I've gotten the following email today (the password has been changed; and the Greek characters are reproduced verbatim): Your ρasswοrd is REPLACED. Ι kηow α lot more τhngs about you τhaη τhαt. How? I ρlaced α malwαre on τhe ροrn websιte αηd guess…

I received an email containing blackmail about videos that the hacker said he recorded. He said that he recorded the user of the laptop masturbating and he is asking for money to delete them otherwise he'll send it to the user's family. First I…

I was cleaning out my spam folder, when I saw one with a subject line which had a little-used password of mine. 16 hours ago. I'm fairly sure odds of guessing this password are small, so I looked. The email comes from mediajobboard.com. If I put…

To keep a long story short, I got hacked on my PC by downloading and executing a wrong file. Programs as InterVPN, Cryptobot and HVNC (told by the hacker via google chat) were installed. My accounts (Outlook and Gmail) were taken over. They used my…