CAUTION ! Scam emails seek to extract money from people who watch porn

Η ESET warns users of fraudulent emails seeking to extract money, especially from people who watch online videos with pornographic content.

ΟThe cybercriminals behind these emails claim to have tampered with the victim's device and recorded the person while watching pornographic content. The message assures that in addition to recording the behavior on the webcam, the videos that have been played have also been recorded.

In previous scams with sextortion scam According to ESET, the emails were mainly in English, but in recent days emails adapted to the respective languages ​​of each country have been detected, mainly in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, the Czech Republic and Russia.

Η ESET warns the public that this scam is an attempt at blackmail and cybercriminals do not really have such a video of the victim. THE ESET protects its users from similar threats through it antispam technology.

E-mail scams like these have been around for years and are not a new form of fraud. The specific case in which the attacker usually asks the victim for money is called sextortion. Sextortion can also be the case if the cybercriminal has real photos of the victim, which he has extracted, for example, from a private conversation through a fake profile. This is a particularly dangerous fraud if the victim is a child.

What differentiates this scam from the previous ones is the effectiveness of the social engineering that has been used, mainly given the ability to target users who secretly watch pornographic content on their devices. In fact, in some of the previous versions, the email seemed to come from "from the victim's email address", Which confirmed the allegations of the cybercriminal for the violation of the device.

In an even older version of this scam, the attacker claimed to have known the victim's password, and to prove his claim, he incorporated the password into the main text of the message. In this case, the cybercriminal probably got the password through one of the big data leaks that included billions of authentic logins and passwords. If a user has actually used the password mentioned in this scam, they may be scared and make a payment.

Another reason this scam is effective is because of the sensitive issue of pornography. As many people visit hidden pages with pornographic content, the idea that their family, acquaintances, colleagues or their colleagues can learn about their behavior is extremely unpleasant.

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