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“We’ve been watching you… enjoy yourself”

ATTACK VECTOR: Email THE SCAM: You receive an email with a password you've used before in the subject title. (The password has been purchased from a list of

breached ones.) The email says the fraudster has installed two-way/splitscree­n videocam software on your computer and has recordings of the pornograph­y you've been viewing, and you, since you've been watching it. If you don't pay up, they'll send the video to your entire contact list–yikes! THE GOAL: Money–$7,000, paid in bitcoin, to keep your “dirty little secret” THE TELL: You don't watch porn FEAR FACTOR: $$$$

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