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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, via a long post on Medium, has accused the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc. (aka AMI), of blackmail and extortion. The post (going by the name “No thank you, Mr. Pecker”) suggests that AMI is threatening Bezos to leak his personal and nude images if he doesn’t publically make […]
In a new extortion scam, a cybercriminal is sending threatening emails to unsuspecting users asking them to pay a whopping $4,000 in Bitcoin or wait to be executed by a hitman. The email extortion scam surfaced on the Internet a few days ago and is currently arriving in victim’s inbox with the subject line “Pretty significant […]
The Sextortion Campaign involves Passwords Stolen from Old Data Breaches. Internet users need to be wary of a new phishing scam that is actually a sextortion scheme, which utilizes old passwords of users and blackmails them for watching pornography. The scammers claim to have recorded footage of the victim while watching porn. They also claim […]
GrayKey’s code snippets recently appeared online and an unknown party was responsible for the publishing. The iPhone unlocking specialist GrayShift is now being extorted for paying 2 bitcoin, the price of one GrayKey box, but it is believed that the extortionists might have run out of codes. GrayKey is a device developed by GrayShift and it […]
In October last year, we reported how a 10-year-old filipino virtual girl “sweetie” takes pedophile to prison in Australia for good. Now a report suggests that scammers/predators are tricking users (mostly males) into extorting money via online video chat on Skype and other chatting softwares. The scammers are smart, all they do is use an attractive woman and some sweet […]