Blackmail variant – 2019-12-08

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 the redaction. But otherwise it’s more or less the same idea behind it.

Now it’s stupid easy to generate text in this fashion, so don’t think this tactic grants the e-mail any level of legitimacy. This isn’t the first such e-mail I’ve encountered. But the mix of letters with accents did make it impossible to OCR. So bravo to the scammers for that. If I feel like it, I may try to type out the thing later.

Makes me wonder how many of these e-mails end up in front of blind individuals, since if any OCR I’ve tried is messing up, any text to speech can’t be having fun with these either.