Recently, YCSO has been receiving calls reporting an extortion scam involving porn sites and bitcoin

In the past few weeks, YCSO has received several calls regarding a scam extorting ‘bitcoin’, also known as cryptocurrency from victims based on a threat to expose alleged viewing of pornography sites. Spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn typically, the victim receives an email correctly identifying their computer password. The email goes on to say that while the victim was on a porn site set up by the suspect, they secretly explored her computer’s contents. The suspect also mentioned using her computer’s camera to record a video of her viewing the porn site and threatened to release it to family and friends on social media. In order to prevent release of the video, the victim was instructed to obtain $2200 in bitcoin within 48 hours.The victim had never viewed the site and knew this was a scam. D’Evelyn says in such an event, it is critical to check your computer immediately for malware and all change passwords. He says the suspects are using special programs that draw email addresses, user names and passwords from the stolen data. The extortion letter is then emailed automatically.

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