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You've been hacked "Hello pervert" Email

I received a message from my own mailbox - what do I do?????


Hello pervert, I've sent this message from your iCloud mail. 

 

I want to inform you about a very bad situation for you. However, you can benefit from it, if you will act wisеly.

 

Have you heard of Pegasus? This is a spyware program that installs on computers and smartphones and allows hackers to monitor the activity of device owners. It provides access to your webcam, messengers, emails, call records, etc. It works well on Android, iOS, and Windows. I guess, you already figured out where I’m getting at.

 

It’s been a few months since I installed it on all your devices because you were not quite choosy about what links to click on the intеrnеt. During this period, I’ve learned about all aspects of your private life, but one is of special significance to me.

 

****

 

I doubt you’d want your friends, family and co-workers to know about it. However, I can do it in a few clicks.

 

Every number in your contact list will suddenly receive these vidеоs– on WhatsApp, on Telegram, on Instagram, on Facebook, on email – everywhere. It is going to be a tsunami that will sweep away everything in its path, and first of all, your fоrmеr life.

 

Don’t think of yourself as an innocent victim. No one knows where your реrvеrsiоn might lead in the future, so consider this a kind of deserved рunishmеnt to stop you.

 

I’m some kind of God who sees everything. However, don’t panic. As we know, God is merciful and forgiving, and so do I. But my mercy is not free.

 

Transfer 800 USD to my Litecoin (LTC) wallet: ltc1q0sfhklq82kxps8kpx7e4el538jf6rs6h3x34ta

 

Once I receive confirmation of the transaction, I will permanently delete all videos compromising you, uninstаll Pegasus from all of your devices, and disappear from your life. You can be sure – my benefit is only money. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be writing to you, but destroy your life without a word in a second.

 

I’ll be notified when you open my email, and from that moment you have exactly 48 hours to send the money. If cryptocurrencies are unchartered waters for you, don’t worry, it’s very simple. Just google “crypto exchange” or "buy Litecoin" and then it will be no harder than buying some useless stuff on Amazon.

 

I strongly warn you against the following:

* Do not reply to this email. I've sent it from your iCloud mail.

* Do not contact the police. I have access to all your devices, and as soon as I find out you ran to the cops, videos will be published.

* Don’t try to reset or destroy your devices. As I mentioned above: I’m monitoring all your activity, so you either agree to my terms or the vidеоs are published.

Also, don’t forget that cryptocurrencies are anonymous, so it’s impossible to identify me using the provided address.

 

Good luck, my perverted friend. I hope this is the last time we hear from each other.

And some friendly advice: from now on, don’t be so careless about your online security.


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Posted on Apr 29, 2024 12:46 PM

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Posted on May 31, 2024 10:23 PM

I also received this same email yesterday. How could they sneak into my email even though I didn't open any links??? Can someone write what happened after 48 hours? thanks

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Jun 4, 2024 8:51 AM in response to mckrrrr001

mckrrrr001 wrote:…


It’s a scam spam, and fiction, not reality.


No hack, no breach, no espionage tooling, no nudes, nothing.


It’s somebody that wants money for their creative writing efforts.


Delete the scam spam, and move on with the rest of your day.


See the previous discussions of this scam spam in this thread for more detail.

Jun 4, 2024 2:04 PM in response to Marco1470

Marco1470 wrote:

let us know what happens mine expires tomorrow


It’s a scam spam, and fiction, not reality.


No hack, no breach, no espionage tooling, no nudes, nothing.


It’s somebody that wants money for their creative fiction writing efforts.


Delete the scam spam, and move on with the rest of your day.


I’ve received numerous copies of this spam campaign going back months, and copies of the same basic scam going back many years.


Run a web search for the cryptocurrency wallet address for some of the many discussions around the ‘net.


See the previous discussions of this scam spam in this thread for yet more detail.

Jun 5, 2024 2:15 PM in response to Mac Jim ID

I also got this email yesterday morning :) looks like the scammers are just doing their rounds scaring innocent people, I blocked the sender, deleted the email and moved on. In the uk you can also report scam emails by forwarding the email to the phishing report email address which I decided to do 🙂 If you’re seeing the email on a phone you can press the “I have hacked you” above your email address it will take you to a contact screen where you can see the actual email it was sent from. Although I wouldn’t recommend emailing them back it definitely put my mind at ease that they definitely don’t have access to your account 🙂

Jun 9, 2024 11:13 AM in response to gustavolicursi

Beware: don't confuse an account and an email.

This attack is fired from an hacked account you cannot see in the email headers because this is private information protected by a password.

But the 'From:' field is free, it is not an account, but an email which is public information and not protected by a password.


This fundamental difference should be teached at school before our first use of email ( around 10 ). This fundamental difference should be reminded by every large IT company who care of users security ( Αmαzοn, ΑppIe, Fαcebooκ, GοοgΙe, Μιcrοsοft… ).



May 6, 2024 7:21 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Did the OP share the raw email with you? I received the same email, and neither it nor the OP’s post show a misspelling of iCloud in the email body.


Doesn’t more definitive evidence reside in the raw header information with such flags as DMARC info and/or quarantine status, as seen here in the identical email in my Junk folder?



No hostility intended — I’m trying to determine how you arrived at your assessment with (ostensibly) only the OP’s pasted email body text. If it was deductive, by citing traits commonly found in other, unrelated junk email, then us recipients aren’t any better armed to make our own assessments going forward. ✌🏼

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