Every day, Bitcoin Who’s Who gets emails about scams, fraud and suspicious Bitcoin activity. But every once in a while, a scammer manages to create a moment of perfect irony: they send a Bitcoin extortion email directly to Bitcoin Who’s Who—complete with the wallet address they want us to investigate.
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The Most Frequently Reported Bitcoin Scams Of 2020
The Top 25 Most Frequently Reported Bitcoin Scam Addresses to BitcoinWhosWho.com in 2020* received 9.5994793 total BTC.
Every single address is associated with the “sextortion” email scam first reported here in March 2018. There are many variations of the scam, but basically claims to have webcam footage of the email recipient visiting adult websites and demands payment in bitcoin or else the video will be sent to their contacts.
The average amount scammed was .092 BTC.
Top 25 Most Frequently Reported Bitcoin Scam Addresses of 2020
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Have You Received A Threatening Email Asking For Bitcoin?
Don’t worry! In fact, congratulations, you are popular! Pretty much everyone has received a version of this bogus email threatening to expose risqué webcam footage of their mark to contacts. Be assured it is fake, even if it contains one of your online passwords!
These are some examples of the email:
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How successful has the bitcoin sextortion email campaign been?
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42 Countries Report Sextortion Email Scam
The bitcoin “sextortion” scam is officially global. Bitcoin Who’s Who received reports of the now infamous email from people in 42 different countries in September.
Almost a third of the scam reports came from the United States. Continue reading 42 Countries Report Sextortion Email Scam
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Sextortion With Password Email Scam Variant Makes 22.67BTC Over First 3 Weeks
Don’t pay it! No matter how convincing inclusion of that old password you used to use makes it seem, they don’t have video of you doing that. Don’t be embarrassed, if you considered paying the ransom email you’re not alone. So far 101 victims have sent 22.67 BTC to 37 of the 176 bitcoin addresses so far reported to be related to the new sextortion with/password scam email variation that first appeared July 10. Reports of previous versions of the same sextortion tactic without the password portion have been reaching us since October 2017. Inclusion of a password is unique over the last three weeks. Continue reading Sextortion With Password Email Scam Variant Makes 22.67BTC Over First 3 Weeks