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Email Scam

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  • #32
    Cyclepath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭Cyclepath


    Got one of these but have to say he was a bit lax on his own security. I tracked him via his IP back to a street somewhere in Croatia. Google maps street view showed a ramshackle industrial unit.

    Considered playing with him but probably best not to interact with these lads. Anyway, the poor chap already had to witness my orgasm face and unusual tastes in amateur porn.


  • #33
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Blackmailing appears to be another usecase for cryptocurrency, alongside it being used to purchase drugs and child porn. Mass adoption any day now.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I got one of these claiming they have access to everything using a throwaway password from over a decade ago. Just desperately grabbing from old or rehashed pastebin dumps.

    I love seeing that their wallet is empty and responding telling them how **** they are at this if they still haven't made anything from it.


  • #35
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Blackmailing appears to be another usecase for cryptocurrency, alongside it being used to purchase drugs and child porn. Mass adoption any day now.

    I dunno if it'll be BTC, but there's a good chance some handier, less technically challenging cryptocurrency will go mainstream. BTC just has the infrastructure to make it easier to buy and use than others right now. Sure, it's used for nefarious purposes, but nowhere near as commonly as dollars are.
    Hector Savage wrote: »
    and authorities can't do anything with Bitcoin wallet IDs ?

    Address owners can and have been identified in the past. The issue for criminals is conversion of BTC back into dollars etc. Has to be done at an exchange and most exchanges are regulated, with pretty stringent ID requirements.

    If your badguy moves his BTC straight from one of those addresses to an exchange, he's basically screwed. Savvy criminals launder their BTC before they get to an exchange.


  • #36
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Somedaythefire wrote: »
    You should have a watch of the Black Mirror episode Shut Up and Dance. It's about a scam like this.

    Yeah, jesus that episode was dark.

    I think they made it
    child porn so you would feel less sympathy for him, but imagine if it were just a regular p0rn flick, christ .....


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