Category: Scams

This one is a little different from the previous ones I’ve received, but still the same pattern. Interestingly this time they’re demanding Ethereum ...

Slightly different from previous e-mails I’ve received, but otherwise still more of the same. Hi! I’m a hacker who hacked your operating system a fe...

Another scam message came to my inbox today, and it used a rather clever encoding. It looks like plaintext, but it isn’t. It uses high-order 32-bit Unicod...

This one came into my junk folder earlier today: Your password ιs [REDACTED]. Ι kηοw a lοt mοre thηgs abοuτ you τhαn thατ. How? Ι plαced a malwαre oη τhe pοrn w...

And for accessibility (without the character manipulation): i am aware ******** one of your passphrases. Lets get directly to point. absolutely no one has paid ...

This one came to me with the subject line of a password obtained from a data breach. And written out so this can be indexed by search engines, without all the c...

This one has an interesting twist: The entire e-mail is just one large image. And this one plays on the data leaked passwords I’ve seen previously, hence ...

Yet another one came to my e-mail today, this one slightly different from previous ones. So basically it’s the same empty threat with slightly different w...

Just got this one today. It came with the subject as the username for my primary e-mail address and an old password I know they harvested from a data dump. And ...

This e-mail caught me a little by surprise this morning as the subject was “Be sure to read this message! Your personal data is threatened!”. At fir...