Spammers And Scammers Suck – Part 3

Today I got a new version of the “Send me Bitcoin” email scam that I haven’t gotten before. This one has a different spin…

It threatens violence against me, unless I pay up.

Again, it should be stated, (as I have said in the last two blog posts,) that these emails come from a spoofed email account, and the only thing that is “real” in these emails, are my email address, and the scammer’s BitCoin account number.

Here is the scammer’s latest offering:

Hi there.

I run a site in the darknet, I sell all kinds of services – basically it is destruction to property and injury. In the main, all but the shooting. Often main reasons are rejected love or competition at work. This month she talked to me and gave me the task of empty acid in your visage. Standard order – quickly, painfully, for life.
Without too much fuss. I get money only after completing the order. Therefore, now I offer you pay me to be inactive, I propose this to nearly all the victims. If I do not see money from you, then my person will fulfill the order. If you transfer me money, in addition to my inaction, I will give you the information that I have about the client. After completing the task, I always spend the performer, so I have a choice, to get $1800 from you for information about the customer and my inaction, or to get $ 5000 from the customer, but with a high probability of losing the performer.

I’m getting payments in BitCoin, here’s my Bitcoin address – REDACTED

The summary I told above.

24 hours to decide and pay, and keep in mind that clock is ticking.

Wilbert Potter

Latest update… today I got two emails, from two different spammers.

Both made it appear that they had hacked my account, by spoofing my email. (My email isn’t hacked.)

They are getting lazy, though.  Even though the instructions specify that their BitCoin accounts are case sensitive, and that I should copy and paste it, when I send them their ransom… they have pasted the document, as an image into the email, so nobody can copy and paste their BitCoin address anyway!  #Geniuses

Here are the latest versions.

Click on the images below, to open ’em up, and read the (slightly) different versions.

These jerks have bought a list of emails, likely from back, years ago, when LinkedIn user information was compromised… and are spitting it out to as many folks as they can reach, hoping that some of them will be taken in by it.

I am posting the many versions, with the hope that, by posting them, I create awareness that these are spammers, and they suck… but that they should be ignored, along with the money from Nigerian Princes, and emails from the CIA.