The Scammer Wanted Me to Send Him $1450 Or…
Turning Scammer Blackmail into Content: My Experience with Job Search Fraud
Exposing the "overdue payment" and webcam blackmail tactics used by modern cybercriminals.
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Sometimes job searches turn into funny messages from scammers. Perhaps, when people first started using the Internet and received such letters, they believed in them and fulfilled all the requirements. And what do I do? I make articles from such messages. Fraudsters often buy email databases, far from inventing protection against this.
I found the letter by accident when I accidentally clicked on the spam folder. I usually never open it.
The letter was long, so pour yourself some tea or coffee, grab some delicious cookies, and get ready to read.
The title caught my attention because it was not a standard advertising mailing; it was immediately clear that it was a scam: There is an overdue payment under your name. Please, settle your debts ASAP!
I decided to open the letter and read it.
Interesting letter, you can’t see where it was sent from.
Here he or she or they are, begging me for $1450 and sharing their crypto wallet:
You need to carry out a $1450 USD transfer to my wallet (equivalent amount in bitcoins depending on exchange rate at the moment of funds transfer), hence upon receiving the transaction, I will proceed with deleting all the filthy videos with you in main role.
Scammer — Dreamer…
Here is my bitcoin wallet for your reference:
1AShXiE JwHNENgZxe B5aeK17 xyUpmj2nAd
The transfer will take a long time. I sent it by pigeon! 😁
Attention please! I have specified my Bitcoin wallet with spaces, please make sure that you key-in my bitcoin address without spaces to be sure that your coins successfully reach my wallet!
What a polite scammer, he even asks to be careful when entering his wallet, otherwise the money will not reach him!
From now on, you have only 48 hours and countdown has started once you opened this very email (in other words, 2 days).
Okay, Mr. Scammer, I know how long 48 hours is!
Chill, I can track down any transactions right away, so upon funds transfer I will receive a notification as well, since I still control your devices (my trojan virus has ability of controlling all processes remotely, just like TeamViewer).
Here’s just my facial expression:
By the way, Taylor Swift is also actively fighting against deepfakes and fraud. You can read about it here, how AI scams are impacting artists and their fans.
Even to assemble an IKEA table, the instructions are shorter!
Here is my bitcoin wallet for your reference:
Here you need to trust me, because there is absolutely no point to still bother you after receiving money. Moreover, if I really wanted all those videos would be available to public long time ago!
Even I don’t have such videos, so where did you get them from, Mr. Scammer?
Here is my last advice to you… in future you better ensure you stay away from this kind of situations! My advice — don’t forget to regularly update your passwords to feel completely secure.
Liar, first said that this was the last piece of advice, and then wrote another one. Something tells me that he works somewhere in support. He wrote a whole instruction. But forgot the screenshots.
Safety precautions
In case anyone doesn’t know, don’t believe such messages. The scammer doesn’t even know your name. He doesn’t have access to any of your devices. Everything they wrote is a standard template; none of it is true.
What can be done?
- The most important thing is not to pay anyone. Most likely, no one does this, but suddenly, out of 1000 or 10,000 people, there is one who likes to do this kind of charity.
- You can delete the letter.
- You can send a letter to websites dealing with cyber fraud.
- You can write an article.
So you can relax and finish your tea or coffee. And the letter amused me.
Besides debunking, I make things. Maybe you’ll find something useful, cute, or necessary here 🦝?
Do scammers send you letters after sending your resume? If so, what kind?
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