You have to be impressed with the bad-guys/girls who come up with new ways to try to separate you and your money. I got this email a few days ago letting me know that I had 2 days to buy bit coins and send them to their wallet. Well 2 days have come and gone and I am sad to say that the promised porno-site has yet to materialize. Nevertheless I am happy to share the brilliant bit of Spoofing put on by this determined bad guy/girl.

The Email (My Comments in Italics)

You may not know me and you are probably wondering why you are getting this e mail, right?
I’m a hacker who cracked your email and devices a few months ago.

Do not try to contact me or find me, it is impossible, since I sent you an email from YOUR hacked account.
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). [Do kittens playing with yarn balls count as a porno site?]
While you were watching videos, your internet browser started out functioning as a RDP (Remote Control) having a keylogger which gave me accessibility to your screen and web cam.
After that, my software program obtained all information.

You entered a passwords on the websites you visited, and I intercepted it.
Of course you can will change it, or already changed it.
But it doesn’t matter, my malware updated it every time.
What did I do?

I backuped device. [Back ups are important, good for you!] All files and contacts.
I created a double-screen video. 1st part shows the video you were watching (you’ve got a good taste haha . . .)[Thank you, I like a good kitten/yarn video], and 2nd part shows the recording of your web cam.
exactly what should you do?
Well, in my opinion, $1000 (USD) is a fair 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).
My Bitcoin wallet Address:
1MT6jgF7YS7SDpuQfVHe6sEC8W7PxrwEH4
(It is cAsE sensitive, so copy and paste it) [You are very considerate to provide this information]

Important:
You have 48 hour in order to make the payment. (I’ve a unique pixel in this e mail, [YIKES, AN unique pixel] and at this moment I know that you have read through this email message).
To track the reading of a message and the actions in it, I use the facebook pixel. [My GOD you are sophisticated, a FACEBOOK Pixel]
Thanks to them. (Everything that is used for the authorities can help us.) 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. [Please do, they also like a good Cat Video – here is the best of 2018 – www.youtube.com].

Be Careful Out There

I sent the Polish internet provider (retsat1.com.pl) a copy of the email so hopefully some poor infected user can get their anti-virus updated.

Apparently this scam is about six months old (hmm, I appear to be a late adopter of being targeted) but the messages are the same.  Strong passwords, don’t put things like your real birthday, name, etc. into social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) and get a password tracking tool.

Read more: www.businessinsider.com.