What to do if you get an extortion email asking for Bitcoin payments – Chronicle Live
Action Fraud has issued tips on how to identify password scams where fraudsters attempt to extort money in Bitcoin payments.
One common phishing scam identified by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau is known as “sextortion”. The scammers email their potential victim with a genuine password that the victim has used, and then attempt to blackmail them by claiming they hacked into the victim’s computer and recorded them watching pornographic videos.
The emails usually contain the victim’s own…
