Seems legit to me. I'd pay it to clear your name...
Should I pay him and be safe? Ha Ha
Of course, I haven't opened any of the attachments.
Case #71362849
Distribution and storage of pornographic electronic materials involving underage children.
My name is Jefferey Horowitz and I am a technical collection officer working for Central Intelligence Agency.
It has come to my attention that your personal details including your email address (My business email address removed) listed in case #71362849.
The following details are listed in the document's attachment:
- Your personal details,
- Home address,
- Work address,
- List of relatives and their contact information.
Case #71362849 is part of a large international operation set to arrest more than 2000 individuals suspected of paedophilia in 27 countries.
The data which could be used to acquire your personal information:
- Your ISP web browsing history,
- DNS queries history and connection logs,
- Deep web .onion browsing and/or connection sharing,
- Online chat-room logs,
- Social media activity log.
The first arrests are scheduled for April 8, 2019.
Why am I contacting you ?
I read the documentation and I know you are a wealthy person who may be concerned about reputation.
I am one of several people who have access to those documents and I have enough security clearance to amend and remove your details from this case. Here is my proposition.
Transfer exactly $10,000 USD (ten thousand dollars - about 2.5 BTC) through Bitcoin network to this special bitcoin address:
3QN3gDWwbzgYHMKRiTQ1jFUQe2aWyghwVF
You can transfer funds with online bitcoin exchanges such as Coinbase, Bitstamp or Coinmama. The deadline is March 27, 2019 (I need few days to access and edit the files).
Upon confirming your transfer I will take care of all the files linked to you and you can rest assured no one will bother you.
Please do not contact me. I will contact you and confirm only when I see the valid transfer.
Regards,
Jefferey Horowitz
Technical Collection Officer
Directorate of Science and Technology
Central Intelligence Agency
I wonder how many people actually do pay.
Last edited by Griswold; 20th March 2019 at 07:43.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Seems legit to me. I'd pay it to clear your name...
I got one of those, I was just trying to work out how to get some Bitcoin so I could pay - so its a scam is it :)
If you can be bothered report it to Actionfraud and the Police.
The police anti fraud and online crime people would love that I’m sure, how many people actually pay I wonder
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A few years ago I went on a stag do, and ended up sitting on a the plane next to someone who I had never met and it turned out they worked for the NCA and we got chatting, he was very evasive about what he did but in the end it turned out he worked on these types of emails and he said you would be amazed the people that had fallen for them, he mentioned (no names obv) that’s there had been doctors, judges, policemen and teachers and the like
It all revolves around greed
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Ring the CIA and report him!!!
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Tried to do that by forwarding the email, with an explanation from myself, to their email address and got the following mail rejection message....
Well, of course it contained spam, that's why I was advising them about it........550 Message contained spam content (antispamcloud.spam.genfrmd06)
Tried phoning, gave up after listening to the same message for fifteen minutes!
I guess they're not really bothered about tackling this sort of thing.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Gents, do you seriously believe the Police have the time or resources to get involved in this kind of thing?
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
I disagree having a friend who works on cyber crime it’s quite the hot topic, but each to their own
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If they have time for this:
"... we also want to know about non-crime hate incidents." [my emphasis]
https://www.southyorks.police.uk/fin...ce/hate-crime/
then, yes, they do have time.
Is it Arthur? It's Arthur isn't it?
I got one of those mails telling me they took over my notebook's internal camera and they recorded me surfing pornografic websites and relieving myself. If I didn't pay up within a week they would put the recording on all the social media I'm active on.
Well, I'm not active on social media and the camera has been covered by a piece of tape for years now.
They are just trying with everybody and probably get something out of it every now and then.
And BTW, I wish they did, a new John Holmes would have been born..........
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
This is like when the bottom inspector knocked on my door and I gave him £20.
I should have known he was a phoney because it was a different chap to last time........
I feel so foolish.
Ahem!,,,They can't even look after their own ::
Criminal investigation launched into cyberattack that deleted and encrypted Police Federation data
Written by Sam Trendall on 22 March 2019 in News
National Crime Agency leading inquiry after malware assault
A criminal investigation has been launched after the headquarters of the Police Federation of England and Wales suffered a malware attack that deleted and encrypted portions of its backup data.
The attack, which took place on 9 March, affected “a number of databases and servers”. It disabled email services and rendered files inaccessible.
There is currently no evidence to suggest any data was “extracted or misused”. There is a low risk of any such activity being discovered, although the possibility cannot be discounted, according the federation.
“All indications are that the malware did not spread any further than the systems based at Federation House, the organisation’s Surrey headquarters, with none of the 43 branches being directly affected,” PFEW added.
The cyber breach – which the federation does not currently believe was targeted specifically at the organisation but, rather, was part of a wider assault – was discovered via internal security systems at 7pm on the day in question.
“We isolated the infection and took some services offline in order to minimise spread,” PFEW said. “We immediately instructed a leading forensics firm, BAE Systems, to assist with the response.”
The day after the attack, the incident was reported to the National Cyber Security Centre and the National Crime Agency – which is now leading the criminal investigation. The Information Commissioner’s Office was alerted to the breach on Monday 11 March.
PFEW, which is the statutory staff association for police constables, sergeants, inspectors, and chief inspectors across England and Wales, represents around 120,000 officers. It claimed that “various categories of individuals… including our members” were affected by the breach. Anyone impacted will be personally contacted presently, PFEW said.
PFEW national chair John Apter said: “We are deeply sorry that this has happened. The Police Federation takes data security very seriously and responded immediately on becoming alerted to this incident. Our priority has been to mitigate the damage caused by the attack and to protect the personal data of our members and others whose data we hold.”
The federation has set up a dedicated website bringing together its statement on the attack and the answers to a list of questions. At 12pm today it also launched a helpline – the number for which is 0800 358 0714 – to provide advice for anyone who has concerns.
Fortunately no BTC was sent to that address.
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/addre...jFUQe2aWyghwVF
One of my relatives is a paramedic and attended a suicide where a welsh farmer who received one of these emails perceived no other way out than to kill himself. The police investigated and he was completely clean but did not understand that the people behind these emails are simply chancers. Unfortunately not everybody is as computer and Internet savvy as the bulk of people here