Scam alert: No, hackers don't have webcam vids of you enjoying p0rno. Don't give them any $$s Scumbags are trying to extort money from netizens by threatening to leak to friends and family videos of their marks watching X-rated videos. A Reg reader this week shared their story of being contacted by an extortionist who claimed to have obtained, through hacking our reader's PC, compromising webcam footage of them …
I be the hacker with the mad skills. When I sent to you the split screened video of your friend committing that Sin of Onan along side the naughty materials of his selection, little knew of you that I had commandeered your webcam too. If you don't pay me with Bitcoins I shall send a split screen video of your agape-jaw next to his Spilling of the Seed split screen, all back to your friend of the first party. This process shall I follow until one of you pays me, or en lieu of such payment explains the ending of "Inception".
"Sin of Onan"
His "sin" was not masturbation.
Onan's elder brother died leaving a widow and no sons. The father commanded Onan to obey tribal law and to make his brother's widow pregnant. A resultant son would have been considered the dead brother's heir - and would have inherited the family wealth instead of Onan.
Onan therefore made sure he didn't get the widow pregnant - thus committing the sin of disobeying both his father and tribal law.
Thus the same sin in the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church is the use of "coitus interruptus" as a form of contraception - even though it is even less reliable than their approved "rhythm method".
Actually what shows that religion is just a load of old wank, for some values of religion, is that the original Hebrew god was a male fertility god who sprayed his semen on the ground ("mother earth") in the form of rain and thus gave rise to living creatures. A lot of societies have similar creation myths. The Book of Genesis has been tidied up a bit and a lot of awkward questions sidestepped.
Yeah, I got one of those emails. I'm not a millennial, I'm a paranoidial, so my webcam is disabled in BIOS and has a piece of tape over it. They asked to be paid in Bitcoin. I just took it as a scam email & relegated it to my saved-spam folder for future reference.
@ Mongo; Why don't you send the second video to a third person, so that they can watch the video of the second person's agape-jaw as they watch the first person? Then secretly film *them* watching it and send it to a fourth person. And so on, ad infinitum.
I call this "Onanonanonanism".
"this also assumes that their e-mail wouldn't end up somewhere in a spamfilter"
I got a copy today. Apart from not telling me what my password was (or even what fapsite I'd visited) the URL for the video wasn't even intelligible as a URL
Which is probably why it got through - and the fapsite was probably "fapping great steam traction locomotives" or some other entertainment which might be a tad scalding for an onanist to toot his oboe on.
I've had two of these mails in the last 3 days and both told me that my password was 'changeme' which, to the best my knowledge, is not one I've ever used anywhere for anything. I vaguely recall it used to be the default password for some java key store as delivered from Sun/Oracle but it's certainly not one I'd choose to use (much too complicated, mine are all 'password', honest). They can send me as many as they want but since I already know I've never been anywhere near an adult site and most likely never will, I'm not likely to be paying anyone anything.
Nope.. no webcams here. The laptops that had them have all had the software removed and either the camera removed or the lens taped over. On the desktops, if the monitor has built in webcam, same thing plus the cable is never attached. The times we need a webcam we plug in an external cam and then remove when done.
Am I the only one who does this?
I'm the same, I also use the computer wearing a balaclava in case they reverse the polarity of the monitor. You can't be too careful.
I've had a couple of these emails and whilst I know some people won't and will be scared of them I found them hilarious. As I have black electrical tape over the cameras on my tablets and phones it's highly unlikely that someone has any video from them. The tablets have physically disabled microphones so no sound from them either. I've alerted friends and family about this and asked them to spread the word that it's bollocks. If in the highly unlikely event someone had hacked my tablet they would have been confronted by a black screen and silence.
When I mentioned the subject at work to colleagues so they were forewarned, people found it funny too. One of the ladies said that most people did it and would be surprised if someone wasn't rubbing one in/out at some point. She also said that she'd read in the paper that it was healthy for blokes to do it as it may help reduce testicular cancer.
"Am I the only one who does this?"
Well, contrary to popular belief, I'm not completely paranoid - I don't do anything to the cameras in my laptops; they're intact, no dismantling, no tape. But that's largely because I almost never use the laptop's screen etc - most of the time I use them plugged into an external monitor/keyboard/mouse, with the lid closed.
The exceptions tend to be in clients' offices or in public - so if there were any questionable videos of me captured on the built-in camera, I would probably have been arrested already.
Note: I have received a scammy "we have a video of you wanking" email, back in May, though it was clearly less targeted and more random (generic address, didn't have the bonus of an old password, etc). I found it very amusing - so here it is for everyone's enjoyment. I particularly liked the euphemism "burp the monkey" and the fact that the scammer(s) apologised for their poor grammar.
Here a real one I recently received -
Return-path: <alert@toystructor.com>
Envelope-to: myspace@xxxxxx.xxx
Delivery-date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:38:31 -0500
Received: from xxxxxxxx.xxx ([xxx.xxx.xxx.14])
by xxxxxx.xxx with esmtp (some software)
id xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
for myspace@xxxxx.xxx; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:38:30 -0500
Received-SPF: Pass (sender SPF authorized) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=82.202.221.107; helo=toystructor.com; envelope-from=alert@toystructor.com; receiver=myspace@xxx.xxx
DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.9.1 xxx.xxx
Authentication-Results: xxx.xxx; dkim=pass
reason="1024-bit key; unprotected key"
header.d=toystructor.com header.i=alert@toystructor.com
header.b=DhMK; dkim-adsp=pass; dkim-atps=neutral
X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.8.0
Received: from toystructor.com (toystructor.com [82.202.221.107])
by xxx.xxx (Postfix) with ESMTP id xxx
for <myspace@xxx.xxx>; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:37:51 -0500 (CDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=key1; d=toystructor.com;
h=Date:From:Reply-To:Message-ID:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Content-Type:
Content-Transfer-Encoding; i=alert@toystructor.com;
bh=xxx;
b=xxx;
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:37:19 +0200
From: "=?utf-8?Q?Brathwaite_Vien?=" <alert@toystructor.com>
Reply-To: "=?utf-8?Q?Brathwaite_Vien?=" <eibnosov@innocent.com>
Organization: tfpedrwc
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-ID: <504837717.20180627163719@toystructor.com>
To: myspace@xxx.xxx
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?=D0=A2ic=D0=BA=D0=B5t=23288370033=3A_=3Cmyspace=40taring.org=3E_27=2F06=2F2018_05=3A37=3A21_Your_life_can_be_ruined?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-spam-status: No, score=4.7 required=6.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL,DKIM_ADSP_ALL,DKIM_SIGNED,T_DKIM_INVALID,FREEMAIL_FORGED_REPLYTO
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-PMFLAGS: xxx xxx xxx.CNM
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