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Bizarre email threat
We have two Weebly business sites with contact forms, and the following message was sent to both this evening::
Quote:
https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/reports...c1Wop3rREqupC4
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I think you did the right thing. There are some seriously disgusting people out there. Don't waste any energy on 'em.
scott |
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"MOST YOU WILL GO TO PRISON"
They'd have to try harder than that to have me sending bitcoins. Furthest I'd go is a Tupperware full of leftover turkey on Friday. |
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That's one of many common scams. You can view the header part of an email message to see sender, paths, and addresses.
The type of email threat to be more worried about is when an account in a big or your own tenant gets compromised. For examples, someone's or your own account at same host, Google or Microsoft tenant. They can slip through most protection measures because you should think of them as already inside. Of course it's a big mess if your own account is the one compromised. Using DNS-based security can be a big help. Contrary to what some stand stand strong on, it also helps to have up to date and patched versions of your software. Your Internet consumption, quality of content and more extreme political leaning can also make a difference as far as the number and types of attack vectors you are exposed to. To explain, I administer security systems for close to 1000 employees, and 4 public WiFi networks that can each get hundreds of users per day. My inline threat protection reports and reports from DNS-based security show those patterns. Content providers towards extremes are often flagged. Please understand it's not the politics per se, but attack vectors. The criminals take advantage of gullible people. You can use DNS-based security on a personal level but understand it might stop or block some Internet use you do.
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Never received anything like that before. Back in the late 90’s I did however find this in my inbox:
“I have been hired by someone you know to kill you. This is how your life will end. You will not know when or how it will happen, but it WILL happen”. I responded with “make sure you bring help because I assure you I won’t die easily”. I never heard from them again, as I knew I wouldn’t.
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That is absurd. Right to the spam folder that should go.
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Its probably from the Nigerian princes cousin.
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Interesting. Many of the scams that I’m aware of are based on a “Hope of gain”.
The one is extreme in its “Fear Of Lose” This is a government web site to report scams. They probably get inundated with reports that lead nowhere but it can’t hurt to make a report https://www.usa.gov/stop-scams-frauds
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