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A thread on email phishing /blackmail scams
please take a bit of your time to read trough it as it may save you money ,panic and anxiety in the future especially for people dealing with diferent mental health issues , such as anxiety, depression and so more other things
please take a bit of your time to read trough it as it may save you money ,panic and anxiety in the future especially for people dealing with diferent mental health issues , such as anxiety, depression and so more other things
I'm making this thread on this subject as i, myself i almost fell for a blackmail / phishing scam (today ) fortunetly my email provider's systems picked that up as a spam and i only found of it just today , (1 day before it was going to be deleted from the spam folder )tho...
i wish i wouldn't have found out of it ,it would have saved me the panic and anxiety i had to go trough but fortunetly i was bright enough to search some keywords on google and then i found it is a scam a very belivable one as it used one of my older passwords that got leaked
during data breaches and were shared online within the "BlackHat hackers hacking comunity "
to check if your email adress was involved in a data breach you can go to haveibeenpwned,com(you can google it)
and type in there your email adress to check
to check if your email adress was involved in a data breach you can go to haveibeenpwned,com(you can google it)
and type in there your email adress to check
and if your email adress is flagged as pawned then you must change your pasword imediatly and not risk someone getting access to your accounts
next i will add links to articles about this scam ,if you dont want to click the links i'm giving you the keywords googled
next i will add links to articles about this scam ,if you dont want to click the links i'm giving you the keywords googled
Keywors/Phrase: "your browser started out operating as a RDP having a key logger"
Links to sites that have talked about this scam: https://www.reddit.com/r/phishing/comments/htfkpl/got_a_weird_email_dont_exactly_know_what_to_do/
https://malwaretips.com/blogs/browser-started-out-operating-as-a-rdp-having-a-keylogger-email-scam/ https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2020/04/scam-emails-demand-bitcoin-threaten-blackmail?page=6
Links to sites that have talked about this scam: https://www.reddit.com/r/phishing/comments/htfkpl/got_a_weird_email_dont_exactly_know_what_to_do/
https://malwaretips.com/blogs/browser-started-out-operating-as-a-rdp-having-a-keylogger-email-scam/ https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2020/04/scam-emails-demand-bitcoin-threaten-blackmail?page=6
what i'm trying to say is to not fall for this kind of scams, they may looks obvious scams to you right now but when you get an email like this with one of your paswords in it trust me you'll panic and think irationally just like i did , hopefully i learned something from this
one thing is sure, gona use a prox/vpn or anything that improves on my security online , even now im writing this tweet from an incognito tab with Tor enabled as that email realy did some damage to my already rolercouseter like anxious panicky mood
