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Old boards.ie password scam?

  • 06-08-2018 01:01PM
    #1
    Wanton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks,

    Just wondering if anyone else has found themselves been targeted with an "extortion" email scam recently?

    The email address attached to my boards account has received a number of very similar emails reporting to know my password, they call out an old password I would have used years ago and apparently they have "footage" of me from my web cam and all my facebook details etc etc. And "much to my horror" they are going to leak details to all my friends and family if I dont pay them. The mails vary from $1200 to $7000 to 0.85 bitcoins.

    Now, I have no cam, neither do I use facebook etc. So I have little in the way of concerns and I am confident their claims are bogus.

    My only aim for now is to insure none of my various accounts have been compromised. The only account I can think of linking this old password that this "person" mentions and the email address that received the scam attempt would have been my boards.ie account.

    Both the password and hack were many year ago now? Were there ever any reports of the information that this Latvian kid got being used or released?


Comments

  • #2
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    Scam that's going around...

    Another thread on it recently here - https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057896737


  • #3
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,963 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    I received this extortion email, I think it is most likely the details were taken from the 2013 Adobe Acrobat hack.


  • #4
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,975 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Reply to them taking the piss.

    https://youtu.be/ovNHBEfTO_8


  • #5
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Reply to them taking the piss.

    https://youtu.be/ovNHBEfTO_8


    Yes, because after watching this stand up 'comedian', they'll now have cancer. You'll have the last laugh. :pac:


  • #6
    Wanton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Wanton


    I was half tempted to play along and ask for evidence etc, knowing its bogus. But all your doing is validating your address.


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  • #7
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    Wanton wrote: »
    I was half tempted to play along and ask for evidence etc, knowing its bogus. But all your doing is validating your address.


    Yep. Best thing to do is ignore it or report it as spam.

    Good practise would be to change your passwords and make sure you're not using the same password across multiple accounts. Turn on 2FA where available.

    Bitwarden is also a useful app / browser plugin to help with this.

    https://bitwarden.com/


  • #8
    eeepaulo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    They discussed this on live line. When people ring up and say they work in IT do they really mean there's a pc on their desk at work?


  • #9
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    eeepaulo wrote: »
    They discussed this on live line. When people ring up and say they work in IT do they really mean there's a pc on their desk at work?

    They clean floors at Intel.


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