My husband hacked and being blackmailed

[swithers]

My husband received an email this morning stating his full name and quoting back one of his passwords. The guy says unless he pays over 1900 dollars in bitcoins they will start contacting his contacts.

Obviously we know we need to report this but can any one tell us to who. Obvs emergency services stretched so if anyone knows it there is a direct line email for a cybercrime we'd be glad of the advice.

Thanks in advance

J x

And yes think there was a dedicated site to report too.

But don’t report to the flipping emergency services!

Mine also congratulated me on my ' super hot performance whilst pleasuring myself' and that my contacts would be seeing it'

Must mean an unknown web cam had seem me enjoying a toasted tea cake with my cuppa.

@MarthasGinYard 😂

My local police force put up a warning about this on Facebook yesterday.
They said it has been going round a lot recently and that it is just a scam.

I had this a couple months ago I just reported it as phishing to Hotmail and was fine, what gave it away as a scan was the fact that it was a password that I haven't used for about six years, you need to tell your husband to change all of his online passwords if it happened to be a password he's still using (which he shouldn't be cus of things like this, always change the password you use every year or so, you sign up to a website you like and 8 years later they've sold their business and it gets torn apart and the list of emails and passwords from it gets bought by scammers who then try to trick people like this)

It's a scam, someone else posted about this yesterday.

I have so many passwords! The one they used was one that I first started using about ten years ago. I’ll need to start going through my accounts, oh dear. Bastards.

It's a well-known scam. I had loads of these a few years ago after the mass hacks, then nothing for a while, then one a couple of days ago (along with lots of other mumsnetters, apparently). It's criminals trying to figure out how to make money when they can't burgle houses or mug people on public transport due to lockdown. Ignore, delete and change passwords regularly.

I cannot get my webcam to work for things like messenger chats/zoom so good fucking luck to them if they can see me picking my nose behind my laptop screen.

I had one of those saying they hacked my camera and filmed my sexual antics, quoting my password. Jokes on them as I have none to film

I had this email yesterday. They used an old password which I haven’t used for years. They also mentioned Facebook contacts and I’ve never had a Facebook account linked to the email address the message was sent to. It also read from the viewpoint of assuming I am a man. I ignored and deleted it.

@swithers Just ignore it, loads of people are getting this. I've had it twice. Absolutely nothing to report. Just ignore it and move on.

Scam

I’ve had that, and I’ve never watched porn.

I have a wee lock on my camera as I work for a techy company. So sadly no antics to be seen. I wonder if anyone tries to pay up?

@Lordfrontpaw please tell us about your camera lock. Sounds perfect to stop prople skyping & zooming me when I’m in my pyjamas.

prople? People - obviously.

Had exact email today

I had the same e-mail today too and it quoted a password I haven't used for years.

Yeah, I’ve had a couple too. Quoting an ancient password. Given that I last watched porn round at my brother’s mate’s house on a scratchy VHS tape in 1996, I doubted their claim.

I’ve had a similar one too. Don’t think it mentioned porn, just stated an old password. It’s from data that has been hacked - mumsnet once had its users passwords published online.

If there are any websites you're still using that password on, change it ASAP.

The details given can easily be obtained from a data breach. Think how many websites ask you for your name. Practically every shopping site for a start.

If the scammers aren't tell you details of their supposed blackmail material, it's because they don't have any blackmail material!

Scam-a-lam-a-dingdong

I had one of these. They gave an email of mine and a very old password. Same type threat. The only time I had used the combination was with LinkedIn at the time they were hacked (around 2010 if I remember right).

Delete email. Change your passwords and ignore.

Yes it’s a scam. People are so ruthless and greedy. Just delete.