Sunday, April 29, 2007

New Email Extortions

Dallas Computer Repair has seen reports of emails threatening millionaires with blackmail. The emails report that they have been targeted to be murdered if they do not respond to the emails that demand $30,000 upfront and $10,000 after information (a tape recording) is delivered to them on the person paying for the "hit". Information Week goes on to report that was is different about this type of email blackmail, that was first noticed in December, 2006, is that the sender's addressed is not "spoofed" but from a real IP address.

Also, the people that respond to these emails have been given back personal information about them most likely gathered by malware and/or hackers.

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reports that about 115 of these have been recorded with the latest wave of assaults happening today, Wed. April 25, 2007.

Report this activity. Let's stop cybercrime, email blackmail and email extortions by reporting these thugs.

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