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William Torrez Corea
Aug 27, 2023, 3:10:07 AM8/27/23
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I am being threatened for this account:
I receive the following message:
I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your operating system.
Currently I have gained full access to your account.
In addition, I was secretly monitoring all your activities and watching you for several months.
The thing is your computer was infected with harmful spyware due to the fact that you had visited a website.
I believe you would definitely want to avoid this from happening.
Here is what you need to do - transfer the Bitcoin equivalent of $760 to my Bitcoin account
(that is rather a simple process, which you can check out online in case if you don't know how to do that).
Below is my bitcoin account information (Bitcoin wallet):
bc1qk6zydkvexund2rpzmcugwhtt6slunc5z6g4efq
I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your operating system.
Currently I have gained full access to your account.
In addition, I was secretly monitoring all your activities and watching you for several months.
The thing is your computer was infected with harmful spyware due to the fact that you had visited a website.
I believe you would definitely want to avoid this from happening.
Here is what you need to do - transfer the Bitcoin equivalent of $760 to my Bitcoin account
(that is rather a simple process, which you can check out online in case if you don't know how to do that).
Below is my bitcoin account information (Bitcoin wallet):
bc1qk6zydkvexund2rpzmcugwhtt6slunc5z6g4efq
How can I verify this?
I have updated my system, programs and verified files with MD5SUM and visited websites with HTTPS in addition report SPAM and PHISHING in my email.
Linux 5.10.0-25-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.191-1 (2023-08-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux
-- With kindest regards, William.
⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀
⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org
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John Crawley
Aug 27, 2023, 4:00:06 AM8/27/23
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On 27/08/2023 16:02, William Torrez Corea wrote:
> I am being threatened for this account:
> femo...@schlangenbad.de <mailto:femo...@schlangenbad.de>
> I am being threatened for this account:
>
> I receive the following message:
> I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your operating system.
> Currently I have gained full access to your account.
>
> *How can I verify this?*Just delete it and forget it.
> I receive the following message:
> I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your operating system.
> Currently I have gained full access to your account.
>
--
John
Geert Stappers
Aug 27, 2023, 4:00:08 AM8/27/23
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 01:02:29AM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote:
> I am being threatened for this account:
>
> bar...@streis.nd
> I am being threatened for this account:
>
>
> I received the following message:
>
> > I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your
> > operating system.
> > Currently I have gained full access to your account.
> >
> > In addition, I was secretly monitoring all your activities and watching you
> > for several months.
> > The thing is your computer was infected with harmful spyware due to the
> > fact that you had visited a website.
> >
> > I believe you would definitely want to avoid this from happening.
> > Here is what you need to do - transfer the Bitcoin equivalent of $760 to my
> > Bitcoin account
> > (that is rather a simple process, which you can check out online in case if
> > you don't know how to do that).
> >
> > Below is my bitcoin account information (Bitcoin wallet):
> > bc1qk6zydkvexREDACTED6slunc5z6g4efq
> > I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your
> > operating system.
> > Currently I have gained full access to your account.
> >
> > In addition, I was secretly monitoring all your activities and watching you
> > for several months.
> > The thing is your computer was infected with harmful spyware due to the
> > fact that you had visited a website.
> >
> > I believe you would definitely want to avoid this from happening.
> > Here is what you need to do - transfer the Bitcoin equivalent of $760 to my
> > Bitcoin account
> > (that is rather a simple process, which you can check out online in case if
> > you don't know how to do that).
> >
> > Below is my bitcoin account information (Bitcoin wallet):
>
> *How can I verify this?*
Start with understanding if it is realy about you.
Reread the text and check where it is personal. (It isn't.)
The thing I like about the text is how generic it is.
It is even gender neutral.
> I have updated my system, programs and verified files with MD5SUM and
> visited websites with HTTPS in addition report SPAM and PHISHING in my
> email.
> With kindest regards, William.
Groeten
Geert Stappers
DD
--
Silence is hard to parse
Hans
Aug 27, 2023, 4:10:06 AM8/27/23
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Am Sonntag, 27. August 2023, 09:02:29 CEST schrieb William Torrez Corea:
Hi William,
thrdr mails are typically spammamils we get every day. You are not hacked, but
you are convinced, to spent money. If I remember correctly, these kind of
mails are called fraud or fraud mails.
I myself also get mails, they hacked my camera and saw me nasty things doing.
But of course this is just a lie. Nor do I nasty things in front of my camera,
neither they would see anythingm even if it is hacked: My camera has a black
tape on it, so if they would really hack it, they only would see a black
screen.
What I want to say: Just ignore them, mark them as spam (really spamassassin
does great work!) and be happy.
Hope this helps.
Best regards
Hans
> I am being threatened for this account:
>
> femo...@schlangenbad.de
>
> I receive the following message:
>
> I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your
> operating system.
> Currently I have gained full access to your account.
>
> In addition, I was secretly monitoring all your activities and watching you
> for several months.
> The thing is your computer was infected with harmful spyware due to the
> fact that you had visited a website.
>
> I believe you would definitely want to avoid this from happening.
> Here is what you need to do - transfer the Bitcoin equivalent of $760 to my
> Bitcoin account
> (that is rather a simple process, which you can check out online in case if
> you don't know how to do that).
>
> Below is my bitcoin account information (Bitcoin wallet):
> bc1qk6zydkvexund2rpzmcugwhtt6slunc5z6g4efq
>
> GNU/Linux*
Hi William,
thrdr mails are typically spammamils we get every day. You are not hacked, but
you are convinced, to spent money. If I remember correctly, these kind of
mails are called fraud or fraud mails.
I myself also get mails, they hacked my camera and saw me nasty things doing.
But of course this is just a lie. Nor do I nasty things in front of my camera,
neither they would see anythingm even if it is hacked: My camera has a black
tape on it, so if they would really hack it, they only would see a black
screen.
What I want to say: Just ignore them, mark them as spam (really spamassassin
does great work!) and be happy.
Hope this helps.
Best regards
Hans
> I am being threatened for this account:
>
> femo...@schlangenbad.de
>
> I receive the following message:
>
> I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your
> operating system.
> Currently I have gained full access to your account.
>
> In addition, I was secretly monitoring all your activities and watching you
> for several months.
> The thing is your computer was infected with harmful spyware due to the
> fact that you had visited a website.
>
> I believe you would definitely want to avoid this from happening.
> Here is what you need to do - transfer the Bitcoin equivalent of $760 to my
> Bitcoin account
> (that is rather a simple process, which you can check out online in case if
> you don't know how to do that).
>
> Below is my bitcoin account information (Bitcoin wallet):
> bc1qk6zydkvexund2rpzmcugwhtt6slunc5z6g4efq
>
> *How can I verify this?*
>
>
> I have updated my system, programs and verified files with MD5SUM and
> visited websites with HTTPS in addition report SPAM and PHISHING in my
> email.
>
> *Linux 5.10.0-25-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.191-1 (2023-08-16) x86_64
> visited websites with HTTPS in addition report SPAM and PHISHING in my
> email.
>
> GNU/Linux*
jeremy ardley
Aug 27, 2023, 4:30:07 AM8/27/23
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On 27/8/23 15:49, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 01:02:29AM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote:
>> I am being threatened for this account:
>>
>> bar...@streis.nd
>>
>> I received the following message:
>>
>>> I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your
>>> operating system.
>>> Currently I have gained full access to your account.
>>>
>>> In addition, I was secretly monitoring all your activities and watching you
>>> for several months.
>>> The thing is your computer was infected with harmful spyware due to the
>>> fact that you had visited a website.
>>>
>>> I believe you would definitely want to avoid this from happening.
>>> Here is what you need to do - transfer the Bitcoin equivalent of $760 to my
>>> Bitcoin account
>>> (that is rather a simple process, which you can check out online in case if
>>> you don't know how to do that).
>>>
>>> Below is my bitcoin account information (Bitcoin wallet):
>>> bc1qk6zydkvexREDACTED6slunc5z6g4efq
>> *How can I verify this?*
> Start with understanding if it is realy about you.
>
> Reread the text and check where it is personal. (It isn't.)
>
> The thing I like about the text is how generic it is.
> It is even gender neutral.
>
>
it in the spam bin due to the content containing well known phrases.
This was on my gmail account for this list. I run my own mail server for
general mail and this class of spam is easily detected by my
spamassassin setup - assuming it gets past the real time black hole filters
As a second line of defence, Thunderbird has some ability to recognise
this as spam.
On a less hopeful note I recently got an email from a well known legal
firm that had had correct SPF and DKIM signatures. However it was a
phishing email from someone who had breached the legal firm's mail system.
To handle this, the general rule on every received email is to check if
you were expecting it. If not, then treat it as suspicious till proved
otherwise. In this thread, someone emailing out of the blue to say they
have pwned you is incredibly suspicious and should be deleted immediately.
Alain D D Williams
Aug 27, 2023, 4:40:06 AM8/27/23
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:31:55AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> If you feel like you'd like to learn a bit, study the mail
> headers. Ponder about which ones the sender could have faked
> and which ones not. Things like that.
If you live in the UK you can forward it to here: rep...@phishing.gov.uk
They will look at it and do something - or so they claim, this is part of government!
--
Alain Williams
Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
+44 (0) 787 668 0256 https://www.phcomp.co.uk/
Parliament Hill Computers. Registration Information: https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Contact.html
#include <std_disclaimer.h>
> If you feel like you'd like to learn a bit, study the mail
> headers. Ponder about which ones the sender could have faked
> and which ones not. Things like that.
If you live in the UK you can forward it to here: rep...@phishing.gov.uk
They will look at it and do something - or so they claim, this is part of government!
--
Alain Williams
Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
+44 (0) 787 668 0256 https://www.phcomp.co.uk/
Parliament Hill Computers. Registration Information: https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Contact.html
#include <std_disclaimer.h>
to...@tuxteam.de
Aug 27, 2023, 4:40:06 AM8/27/23
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 01:02:29AM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote:
> I am being threatened for this account:
>
> femo...@schlangenbad.de
>
> I receive the following message:
>
> I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your
> operating system.
I receive one of those more or less weekly.
>
> femo...@schlangenbad.de
>
> I receive the following message:
>
> I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your
> operating system.
If there are no other reasons for you to believe them, I'd
just ignore it.
If you feel like you'd like to learn a bit, study the mail
headers. Ponder about which ones the sender could have faked
and which ones not. Things like that.
--
t
Alain D D Williams
Aug 27, 2023, 6:30:09 AM8/27/23
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:23:06AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:36:02 +0100
> Alain D D Williams <ad...@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello Alain,
> phishing attacks. Maybe produce a leaflet, or update the advice given
> on a web page somewhere.
Sorry if I came across as overly cynical.
It would be nice if they also went after the perps/crims behind phishing emails‡‡
- which I think they have done a bit of, but could do much more to protect the
gullible.
Still: it is worth reporting to them, which I do several times/week.
‡‡ and similar 'phone calls.
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:36:02 +0100
> Alain D D Williams <ad...@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello Alain,
>
> >They will look at it and do something - or so they claim,
>
> Most likely that 'something' will be to compile statistics about
> >They will look at it and do something - or so they claim,
>
> phishing attacks. Maybe produce a leaflet, or update the advice given
> on a web page somewhere.
Sorry if I came across as overly cynical.
It would be nice if they also went after the perps/crims behind phishing emails‡‡
- which I think they have done a bit of, but could do much more to protect the
gullible.
Still: it is worth reporting to them, which I do several times/week.
‡‡ and similar 'phone calls.
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