A new extortion scam campaign is underway that is targeting websites owners and stating that if they do not make a payment, the attacker will ruin their site's reputation and get them blacklisted for spam.
We all know, or should know, about the sextortion emails people are receiving where the sender states they have hacked the recipient's computer and taped them doing things while on adult sites. Since then, further extortion scams were created that pretend to be the CIA, bomb threats, and even from hitmen asking you to pay them to call off their hit.
In this new variant, scammers are utilizing a web sites contact's form to send messages to site owners with a subject of "Abuse and lifetime blocking of the site - example.com. My requirements".
The demands then state the sender will destroy the reputation of the site if a .3 bitcoin (approximately $2,400) payment is not paid to them.
If a payment is not made, the extortionist states that they will send millions of emails from your domain, leave nasty reviews about the recipient's site, and submit nasty messages to other people's contact forms pretending to be from your domain. All of this being done to ruin the reputation of the site.
Hey. Soon your hosting account and your domain xxx.nl will be blocked forever, and you will receive tens of thousands of negative feedback from angry people.
Here is a list of what you get if you don’t follow my requirements:
+ abuse spamhouse for aggressive web spam tens of thousands of negative
+ reviews about you and your website from angry people for aggressive
+ web and email spam lifetime blocking of your hosting account for
+ aggressive web and email spam lifetime blocking of your domain for
+ aggressive web and email spam Thousands of angry complaints from angry
+ people will come to your mail and messengers for sending you a lot of
+ spam complete destruction of your reputation and loss of clients
+ forever for a full recovery from the damage you need tens of thousands
+ of dollars
Do you want this?
If you do not want the above problems, then before June 1, 2019, you need to send me 0.3 BTC to my Bitcoin wallet: 19ckouUP2E22aJR5BPFdf7jP2oNXR3bezL
How do I do all this to get this result:
1. I will send 30 messages to 13 000 000 sites with contact forms with offensive messages with the address of your site, that is, in this situation, you and the spammer and insult people. And everyone will not care that it is not you.
2. I’ll send 300 messages to 9,000,000 email addresses and very intrusive advertisements for making money and offer a free iPhone with your website address xxx.nl and your contact details. And then send out abusive messages with the address of your site.
3. I will do aggressive spam on blogs, forums and other sites (in my database there are 35 978 370 sites and 315900 sites from which you will definitely get a huge amount of abuse) of your site xxx.nl. After such spam, the spamhouse will turn its attention on you and after several abuses your host will be forced to block your account for life. Your domain registrar will also block your domain permanently.
Receiving an email like this is scary, especially when someone threatens your website, which may be your livelihood.
With that said, it is important to understand that this attacker is sending these to many sites, it is just a scam, and that they are not going to take the effort to ruin your site's reputation.
If you receive one of these emails, simply mark it as spam or delete it.
H/T Malekal.com
Comments
backfolder - 4 years ago
B*st*rds! They can use their 'super-powers' to do decent things...
jamacdonald - 4 years ago
Or better yet, go to the FBI extortion and email scam site & submit a complaint. If they get enough of them, them will go after the perps.