This is the sickest junk/phishing email and how can I report it?

[Craftsandfun]

[my internet id] you recently viewed the child porn on your system, and the site on which you viewed the porn captured your details. So information about your location (IP Address, Mac address), other sensitive information (browser cookies, social media links, browser history) and your social contacts (facebook friends, email contacts) were collected and sent to my server.

All of these details will be automatically forwarded to the concerned police departments including Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit, and FBI exactly 24 hours from now on (I have the special tracking pixel in this email which has been activated right after opening of this email). Believe me, all of the information will be enough to put you behind the bars for the years to come.

However, if you send exactly 0.2 BTC (Bitcoins) to the below address in the next 24 hours, then my servers will automatically delete all of your information and you can continue to live your life.

BTC Address [crazy address which I’m deleting incase anyone follows it]

(It is CaSe sensitive. Copy & Paste)

In case, you do not send the bitcoins, then your data will be automatically forwarded to the above mentioned enforcements agencies.

If you do not know about bitcoins, then just use coinbase, or search google on "How to buy bitcoins".

I’m really fucking angry.

I had this message before aswell it's disgusting and it gave me a heart attack because obviously for a second I thought someone in my family had accessed something like that. Made me sick

I’ve had the same one today!! I’m so angry!

What a disgusting thing to suggest

Do they actually include some of your private personal information or is this a generic new version of the Nigerian prince with an inaccessible bank account email?

That it's vile. I hope there is a special place in hell for scum like that.

They are just using my internet ID which is my full name. It’s made me feel sick and I agree, I hope they go to hell the fucking cunts.

I had the same message! It really upset me too.

'Blackmail is a federal offence. I am forwarding your details to all relevant authorities. No payment required.'

Well, best not to engage actually. Is there anywhere you can forward this kind of filth?

It's vile.
But surely anyone who pays this is guilty of looking at child porn? No sympathy from me if that's the case.

Just delete it or, better, report it to Actionfraud and then delete it.

The people who are going to be really worried by it are those that actually have been watching child porn!

Seriously though, it's pretty shitty and may scare a lot of completely innocent people and that's almost £1000 the rotten bastard wants

www.actionfraud.police.uk/report_phishing

Of course he will send (non-existant) data to the police. If he sent any data how would he explain how he got it. It would be enough to send him down for a few years.

But surely anyone who pays this is guilty of looking at child porn? No sympathy from me if that's the case. I'd say that blackmail is just as bad.
But of coursethe blackmailer doesn't target people watching porn he targets lots of people and occasionaly scores a hit on a guilty mind.

It's malware. Look this one up on the internet and you'll find that there is a way to remove it (we had to get a USB stick and do it that way). Then get and use better antivirus to stop these nasty little infections.

People saying 'just delete it' - you can't (it just stays on screen and you can't get rid of it, at least the one we had was like that). You have to search for a way to remove this particular one, put it on a USB, run it, then immediately get proper virus protection.

The cheeky fuckers

Some people will pay up just cause they are scared, not because they has necessarily accessed that material. I see it every day.

My DP had that one a couple years ago. He was horrified. Turned computer off at mains and then back on again and it vanished. Do NOT touch any keys on keyboard. Seems to work with a lot of the phishing mails.

I can imagine many vulnerable people would take that email as saying that unless they paid money to the sender, they would make it look like they had been viewing child pornography and ruin their life. That is disgusting blackmail!

Thank you for the heads up though, as I have relatives who would be terrified by this!

A lot of people will be frightened and upset because they will believe that they may have accidentally clicked a dodgy link. There are enough stories (some of which have some truth in them) of people who were looking at 'ordinary' ie consenting adult performers only porn who had something nasty piggybacked onto it. or who downloaded a bunch of files that they assumed - and wanted - to be standard consenting-adult porn only for there to be something nasty in amongst what they selected and that they didn't even know about.

Just mark it as spam, delete it, and forget about it.

Anybody who falls for that would be an absolute idiot. It's no worse than any other scare tactic used. Don't interact - just delete it and move on. I would say it was 'sick'...it's not even real!

Just to second the PP who mentioned Action Fraud - when they get enough reports they'll put up an advisory which might help anyone else who receives one of these.

‘Fly, all is discovered,’ in fact.

Grim. Get malware antimalaware. Sister got it after my nephew used some download thing to download lego movie.

I got something similar on my iPad a while back (I didn’t think Apple were so bad for viruses). It even had the name of a big local employer on, so kind of targeted.

I would like to think of myself as quite aware and savvy when it comes to phishing and scams but it was quite scary to get that. Plus, I thought my iPad was a goner.

wrenika the one I got was a pop up that kept appearing. You couldn’t just close it down or mark it as spam.

I got one today in a similar way about watching porn and being recorded doing so. Apparently they’d send it to all my contacts. Idiots.

A bunch of us got this exact email through at work today, our team have reported it to Action Fraud. I agree it’s disgusting and sadly vulnerable people may pay up.