faq:email:dealing_with_blackmail
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| faq:email:dealing_with_blackmail [2020/01/03 13:52] – ziyu | faq:email:dealing_with_blackmail [2022/02/21 10:39] – [Additional Information : Why are they using my password and where did they get them from?] vikki |
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| To make the threat mails more credible and effective, scammers have moved on to include the "latest" or mostly "old" passwords that the victims may have used at one point. The whole point of using it is to make sure their message gets personal with their victim, and more importantly, intimidate those who lacks awareness on this issue. A typical tech fluent individual today, would easily ignore mails like these but the rest of the population, with lesser exposure to issues like this may get shocked and would probably give in to the demands of the scammer. | To make the threat mails more credible and effective, scammers have moved on to include the "latest" or mostly "old" passwords that the victims may have used at one point. The whole point of using it is to make sure their message gets personal with their victim, and more importantly, intimidate those who lacks awareness on this issue. A typical tech fluent individual today, would easily ignore mails like these but the rest of the population, with lesser exposure to issues like this may get shocked and would probably give in to the demands of the scammer. |
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| These passwords can be easily obtained from sites that were hacked. For this case, the password that appears on the subject line could be leaked from another web service/server that has been compromised.That same password could've likely been matched up to a database of emails & stolen passwords and got sent out to scam millions of users across the globe. That is, if the user has frequently signed up on other services using the very same password. To check if your email or password was compromised in a data breach please visit the following links : \\ | These passwords can be easily obtained from sites that were hacked. For this case, the password that appears on the subject line could be leaked from another web service/server that has been compromised. That same password could've likely been matched up to a database of emails & stolen passwords and got sent out to scam millions of users across the globe. That is, if the user has frequently signed up on other services using the very same password. To check if your email or password was compromised in a data breach please visit the following links : \\ |
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| *[[https://haveibeenpwned.com/|Email Address]]\\ | *[[https://haveibeenpwned.com/|Email Address]]\\ |
faq/email/dealing_with_blackmail.txt · Last modified: 2022/03/07 14:36 by vikki
