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My "48 hours pay up time" has passed without further incident . No Bitcoins or dollars have exchanged hands and no-one has reported receiving my files !
I must have been too boring !
Phew !

my husband got one with a password that he is using that ashed for payment in bitcons. He rang the police, who told him to delete it. He will not be using that pss word again. It was one he used for internet shopping.

Lots of people have had this scam. Just ignore.

Well, it won't be from the Russian Secret Service, the CIA, MI5, MI6 or anyone remotely connected to actual reality.

Probably some dysfunctional middle-aged Mummy's Boy getting his pathetic kicks out of pretending he's someone he's not (living in a weirdy fantasy world!) and sending out random emails as a way of letting off steam because he's never had a girlfriend........takes all sorts to make a world, even sad creeps.

Ignore definitely.

Do not, under any circumstances whatsoever, reply to this email! If you do, you will have confirmed your email and you will receive many more attempts at parting you from your money.

Mark it as spam on your email client and preferably auto-purge.

As a precaution, change your passwords.

Hi Elegran. I feel less worried about the threatening email,knowing ,as I probably guessed that the same email had been sent to many others. I just hope these scammers are caught and dealt with . Deleted it immediately and hope none of us receive any like that again.

Its a scam - I've had three of these emails this week alone on my main webmail account! Just delete them - NEVER click on any links in this type of email and definitely don't reply to them either. If the email contains a genuine password for a website you actually use then obviously change it straightaway, although it seems these passwords are old ones - likely from some hack that happened years ago.

I have had similar. I have nothing so exciting going on that could be disclosed I noticed they wanted $ in Bitcoins. I don't have any $ or even know what Bitcoin really is.
It is a scam and I am ignoring it

I have had about three from HMRC but I just bin. Do not open or it can start virus on your computer. If in doubt change passwords to more complex ones with capital and small letters, numbers and special signs too. For example ?772Lollip0p. I am sure most would give up trying to crack a password like that.

A friend had the same email tiredoldwomen and they said that they had evidence of her visiting pornagraphic sites and unless she paid money they would release the info to all her friends. She phoned and asked me what to do and told her to report it to the police. Police told that they were inundated with people reporting the same thing. She was told to ignore

No, don't tell them to get stuffed, That would confirm that your email address is active and it is worth their while using it again. Forward it to your email provider, and let them trace the sender and tell him to get stuffed.

Tell them to get stuffed.its a scam

Ignore it, its a scam. Another one is a phone call from a non English sounding person saying they are from Microsoft and they can detect a fault with your computer, they encourage you to go online and give them your log in details ......... bingo they have put a virus on your computer and charge you £400 to remove it.

Recently I was searching on Google for an article from a national newspaper and some suggestions came up then a further suggestion opened up and I didn't look properly at the title, clicked on the suggestion and again not looking properly I clicked an 'Over 18' box (I thought that was a bit strange for the sort of article I was trying to find) then a porn site popped up with a naked woman. Suppose my teenage GD had been searching for something for her school work. This had never happened before and has not happened since, thank goodness. I felt quite shaken.

Have got an email that I haven't opened but can see the first line saying:- Did you know I got your password and photos.....

Tillybelle......How about 20 years in prison spent handwashing soiled nappies , just to teach them about family life.

lilihu Great advice! Thank you, I have made a note of the Action Fraud Team, for future reference.

Great advice too from stree Thanks! I am learning just in case and how to keep things tidy and out of these evil people's hands.

Mind you - as a punishment they should be made to spend many years in prison reading my internet browsing history. They probably haven't heard of most of the sites I look up, least of all know what they are about.

Do as BlueBelle and MawBroon say:

Ignore
DO NOT reply

Make a note of the sender's address. It may be possible to inform an appropriate body, even the Police.
Delete the message

Our local police issued this alert this morning;

Be aware... Be very aware.

NCMC have received numerous reports from members of the public who advise, that they have received a suspicious email.

This email claims, to be from someone on the dark web. This person further claims to have been monitoring your email account, and browsing history for a period of months. They further tell you, that they have taken photographic evidence of all of the above!

For some people, the thought of anyone seeing their browsing history is absolutely terrifying! ? Almost as terrifying as the request for a payment in dollars to not have these items shared among family and friends.

A good deal this is not! A scam is what it is.
Block any such sender's from further contact, please do not respond. If you have any doubt at all please contact police via 101.

We are here to help.

Oh me too. However my conscience is clear. Good advice about not responding. They are just trying to check the account still exists so they can sell your email to other spammers. Not much point in reporting to UK police is demand is in US dollars.

I had an email the other night with an old password and a threat to publish videos of me watching porn unless I paid a ransom of Bitcoins. I spent the evening going through my saved passwords checking to make sure I wasn't still using that particular one and found it was still active on several accounts which I no longer really use. I changed them using Apple's "Strong Password" tool but my browser didn't update so if there are any blackmailers out there, could you please send me the passwords so I can change them back into something I remember!!

Jane:
Silly thing to do. Every so often a genuine mail will end up in automated spam catchers, usually people you may not have heard from for a while.
You do not need to open them to see who they are from. Check, then delete as appropriate.
As for people suggesting using a viruschecker to deal with ransomware: Sorry, this is not the tool for ransomware, virus checkers are for virusware, for ransomware you need ransomware tools.

I have had a few of these demands and even without ransom tools they can be got rid of:
My first action is to open taskmaster (ALT-Cntrl-Delete) and just delete the process second, just go to restore point and choose last known good configuration.
Then run Malwarebytes, Spybot search and destroy and clear cache.
Ensure all drivers and firmware is up to date, avoid Microsoft browsers and emails ( thay are the biggest target to hackers), use a more secure browser such as Firefox, use a VPN and the one good Windows security product......Windows Defender Security Centre.

Sounds like a lot of chores if you just run a PC and hope for the best, but essential nowadays.
Like anything, just get a routine going.

This has happened to me. They said I’d been watching porn (never lol) and I would like my family colleges to know! Wanted Bitcoins in randsom! I just deleted the whole thing and ignored it knowing that folks would laugh or say ‘good for you’!

I regularly delete all emails in my Spam box without looking at them. It’s the safest thing to do IMHO.