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The scam involves an individual or group that will send out thousands of canned message emails to individuals on an email list obtained by various means and hope that a small number of receipients are fooled into thinking it is personalized, targeted, and a legitimate threat. Only a small number, less than one percent or recipients need be fooled for the scam to be profitable.Bulletin: Email Phishing Scam utilizing extortion via Social Engineering to commit financial FraudDO NOT BE FOOLED BY ANY MESSAGE LIKE OR REMOTELY SIMILIAR TO THE ONE BELOW. Believe me, even if you are naughty with your online habbits, you have not been targeted, and the nuns at the convent probably got the exact same email.The scam involves an individual or group that will send out thousands of canned message emails to individuals on an email list obtained by various means and hope that a small number of recipients are fooled into thinking it is personalized, targeted, and a legitimate threat. Only a small number, less than one percent of recipients need be fooled for the scam to be profitable. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY ANY LIKE MESSAGE OR REMOTELY SIMILAR TO THE ONE BELOW. Believe me, even if you are a little naughty in your online habits, you have not been targeted, and the nuns at the convent probably got the exact same email. This scammer is not a hacker and actually knows nothing about you. He probably bought the email list he is using and doubtfully possesses the skill to obtain it by any other means. It is a very old physiological form of extortion without leverage, or what poker players call a bluff, except that this scam artist uses the Internet to spam the bluff to thousands of people at the same time. See below for an example message captured by one of our honeypot email servers.* I'm Is Very Good Coder* I Have Bad News For You* My Nickname In Darknet* known in darkweb as yorker19* I'm a hacker who cracked your devices a few months agoRECOMMENDED ACTION*Do not pay the ransom.*Do not respond to the email spam.*Avoid clicking links in email.*Mark the email as SPAM and DELETE IT.*Have a cup of coffee and move on with your life.Typically this type of email HAS NO VIRUS PAYLOAD although the peddlers of consumer antivirus software would like to scare you into thinking otherwise. With receiving this message your only action is likely to delete the email and forget about it. Never open file attachments without regards to the wording of the email, including one like the above or any other message from an unknown source.=== Related ===* [[I'm is very good programmer, known in darkweb as]]* [[Pervert Email Scam]]