Discussion Found a blackmail letter in my primary email this morning.. need some ADVICE

Indus

Lifer
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Now he may talk tough but I don't mind my pics/ videos anywhere on the internet having consensual sex with my wife who's in her 30s.

So obviously I'm not gonna pay him..

What I'm curious about is where do I go to report this? FBI online site or where would you go?

Suggestions??
 
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Motostu

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I got the same one a couple of days ago. They misspelled my name, too. Just deleted it.

I had one a year or so ago that was similar, that they sent from my own email account; I verified it wasn't just spoofed. I caught it right away and changed the password. Nothing came of that one either.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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View attachment 109862

Now he may talk tough but I don't mind my pics/ videos anywhere on the internet having consensual sex with my wife who's in her 30s.

So obviously I'm not gonna pay him..

What I'm curious about is where do I go to report this? FBI online site or where would you go?

Suggestions??
Tell him you work for a porn company and if they do this they'll be subject to legal consequences as your ass literally belongs to them.
 

IBMJunkman

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May 7, 2015
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I got one yesterday. Same email. Sent to an email I use only for eBay/paypal. It had my home land line with a missing digit in the area code and it had my P.O. Box address.

As far as I am concerned there is a leak at eBay/paypal.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Wait they sent this as a physical letter? This seems a little more serious than the email ones, considering they know your physical location. I'd call police and maybe even FBI though they probably won't do much since you're not a high profile person like a politician or CEO or something. I would just be worried they come back with a lot of people to retaliate. Like a drive by shooting or something. Either way don't pay a single penny but you'll want to be on high alert, and update your physical and online security as best as you can, the people who do pay are why these people keep doing this. If you have any cloud based camera or home automation systems turn all that off and unplug it. Replace with ones that are local only.

Make sure all your stuff is up to date, change all your passwords etc, I had a hacker email me and stated he hacked my email server and requesting bitcoin or he'd do more damage if I don't send bitcoin and I kept ignoring it. He ended up trashing the entire online server after a while of me ignoring him.
 

RPD

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lack of reading comprehension in the OP and this is pretty amazing
Wait they sent this as a physical letter? This seems a little more serious than the email ones, considering they know your physical location. I'd call police and maybe even FBI though they probably won't do much since you're not a high profile person like a politician or CEO or something. I would just be worried they come back with a lot of people to retaliate. Like a drive by shooting or something. Either way don't pay a single penny but you'll want to be on high alert, and update your physical and online security as best as you can, the people who do pay are why these people keep doing this. If you have any cloud based camera or home automation systems turn all that off and unplug it. Replace with ones that are local only.

Make sure all your stuff is up to date, change all your passwords etc, I had a hacker email me and stated he hacked my email server and requesting bitcoin or he'd do more damage if I don't send bitcoin and I kept ignoring it. He ended up trashing the entire online server after a while of me ignoring him.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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www.anyf.ca
Oops I missed that part in title, the letter itself looks like an actual picture of a letter and not en email so thought it was physical.

Still, OP will want to secure their network stuff though and I assume the censored info in it is his real street address so they still have his physical address.
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
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Jesus christ, dude, the hell are you worried about?

I got one of these two years ago.

It look me like, 5 minutes to realize it was bullshit but also, even if any of it was true, I just didn't give a fuck what he sent and to whom.

The only reason I suspected it was that he did have an old password that I hadn't used in YEARS. ...and it was back when I used that password for everything, lol. So yeah, I was concerned that he had access to accounts and such, but realized how empty the actual threat was.
 

Indus

Lifer
May 11, 2002
12,766
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I got one yesterday. Same email. Sent to an email I use only for eBay/paypal. It had my home land line with a missing digit in the area code and it had my P.O. Box address.

As far as I am concerned there is a leak at eBay/paypal.

Yeah that makes the most sense.
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
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Look up his bitcoin wallet address and see if there's any transactions there that give his ID away.
 

Torn Mind

Lifer
Nov 25, 2012
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The whole art of scamming is merely a subset of exploiting human psychology. That being able to say or present something convincingly is "evidence" enough for a person to believe it and then act upon it.

This particular letter is targeted at porn consumers who have personal incentive to hide their "sins".
 

Micrornd

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Mar 2, 2013
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I've gotten 3 or 4 of those a week for the last 2 months, all from different email accounts.
I'm just waiting for them to "share" the videos, DAMNIT, I want my pornstar contract and I want it NOW!!
 
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