+- ARCHIVE: Australian Ham Radio Discussion Forum ( AHRDF ) (https://www.ahrdf.net/forum)
+-- Forum: GENERAL (https://www.ahrdf.net/forum/forum-29.html)
+--- Forum: Computer related (https://www.ahrdf.net/forum/forum-12.html)
+--- Thread: New scam - purported CIA email (/thread-759.html)
New scam - purported CIA email - VK4ADC - 17-03-2019
Received an email a little different this time around (as against https://www.ahrdf.net/forum/thread-664.html ), purportedly from the CIA :
Sender - dorcas_scarbrough@int4.cia-govn.gq { note the .gq TLD !! }
Source IP : 134.209.123.54
"Case #61548273
Distribution and storage of pornographic electronic materials involving underage children.
My name is Dorcas Scarbrough and I am a technical collection officer working for Central Intelligence Agency.
It has come to my attention that your personal details including your email address (webmaster@ozml.com) are listed in case #61548273.
The following details are listed in the document's attachment:
- Your personal details,
- Home address,
- Work address,
- List of relatives and their contact information.
Case #61548273 is part of a large international operation set to arrest more than 2000 individuals suspected of paedophilia in 27 countries.
The data which could be used to acquire your personal information:
- Your ISP web browsing history,
- DNS queries history and connection logs,
- Deep web .onion browsing and/or connection sharing,
- Online chat-room logs,
- Social media activity log.
The first arrests are scheduled for April 8, 2019.
Why am I contacting you ?
I read the documentation and I know you are a wealthy person who may be concerned about reputation.
I am one of several people who have access to those documents and I have enough security clearance to amend and remove your details from this case. Here is my proposition.
Transfer exactly $10,000 USD (ten thousand dollars - about 2.5 BTC) through Bitcoin network to this special bitcoin address:
3P1LmLAQXPMdtzbvk8CbviPCiRrHRugNFp
You can transfer funds with online bitcoin exchanges such as Coinbase, Bitstamp or Coinmama. The deadline is March 27, 2019 (I need few days to access and edit the files).
Upon confirming your transfer I will take care of all the files linked to you and you can rest assured no one will bother you.
Please do not contact me. I will contact you and confirm only when I see the valid transfer.
Regards,
Dorcas Scarbrough
Technical Collection Officer
Directorate of Science and Technology
Central Intelligence Agency
"
Note that there are multiple image attachments as well - which I will neither save or open. Probably infected.
Just a warning of yet another Bitcoin-based SCAM !!!
RE: New scam - purported CIA email - VK2CSW - 17-03-2019
I know these scammers deliberately frame their phishing attempts so that thinking people won't reply (so they don't waste resources on people who, in the end, will not pay up) but this one is particularly poor.
Even the dumbest should see through it.
Or maybe if they don't it is simply modern Darwinism thinning the more useless from the herd?
