I think I got scammed! Someone wants me to send crypto to an unknown wallet address. What should I do?

[Brushless4500KV 4214]

Some days ago, I received an E-mail in which someone had threatened me to publish my personal media files in social media groups. The title of the E-mail was my desktop password. This scammer told me that he now knows my password and has access to my computer and all my personal pictures and videos. Fortunately, I don't store my personal info on my PC and use an external hard drive for this kind of information. The E-mail contains a bitcoin wallet address and the scammer has asked me to send $500 worth of bitcoin to his wallet to forget about revealing my personal info on the web. I changed my password immediately after reading this E-mail and switched to normal user from admin to block everyone's access to the vital program files in my PC. I have never received such an E-mail before and I don't know how this scammer has managed to find my password. Maybe I visited a website that contained malware. My antivirus and anti-malware are always on. Anyway, what do you recommend me to do at this moment?

[Iamstrong 563]

I think that simply someone learned parole from your worker the table, and thought that you get scared and will think that have him your personal photos and send him money.. Naive..

[Mursanna 211]

What antivirus do you use? Maybe your PC has a virus that can provide information to the manufacturer. Have you ever used an application that has a crack?

[Brushless4500KV 4214]

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What antivirus do you use? Maybe your PC has a virus that can provide information to the manufacturer. Have you ever used an application that has a crack?

No, my antivirus is not cracked. It is a freeware called Microsoft Forefront Protection. I also have an anti-malware software. I am a little anxious. What do you think will happen if I don't send him the money? Does he really have access to my PC? What can he do? Is there any way I can detect any attack to my PC?

I even thought about re-installing windows but I will lose many installed softwares that re-installing them is a big burden! I scanned my computer completely with both softwares but they didn't find any threat. I did a full scan not quick scan and it took several hours to be done.

 

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You just be sure and should aware from him.And don't do like what he to you.Otherwiss will will lose funds.

I don't send any money to anyone for nothing! I have no media stored in my PC. I'm just worried about my PC.

Edited December 2, 2019 by Brushless4500KV

[fo1lluko1l 487]

Maybe just someone found out your password and is trying to intimidate you and try to get bitcoin, if you are sure that the computer is safe, just ignore it

[Jimmy 437]

Have you ever joined random airdrop, bounty or website that need register first? Some unresponsible people from i mentioned before is selling your data to scammer or maybe black market or simply they self that sending you email something like this because they know your password and email from your registered password before if not be careful of malware and install malwarebyte.

[Muphin 459]

5 hours ago, Brushless4500KV said:

Some days ago, I received an E-mail in which someone had threatened me to publish my personal media files in social media groups. The title of the E-mail was my desktop password. This scammer told me that he now knows my password and has access to my computer and all my personal pictures and videos. Fortunately, I don't store my personal info on my PC and use an external hard drive for this kind of information. The E-mail contains a bitcoin wallet address and the scammer has asked me to send $500 worth of bitcoin to his wallet to forget about revealing my personal info on the web. I changed my password immediately after reading this E-mail and switched to normal user from admin to block everyone's access to the vital program files in my PC. I have never received such an E-mail before and I don't know how this scammer has managed to find my password. Maybe I visited a website that contained malware. My antivirus and anti-malware are always on. Anyway, what do you recommend me to do at this moment?

That experience of yours kind of terrified me. But anyway, it's good you share that kind of experience so that everyone will be alert and know that this is scam. Also, you already have suggested a way to do it which is, they should put their information in a hard drive or some external memory. Also, I don't know why you're anti-virus didn't work.

[Benjamin 84]

You only need to do is to ignored the email that you will received, you dont do anything with that, they are trying to phish your account and you can avoid it by just simply block them and dont listen to them.

[ASDFGHJKL17 267]

Basically you shouldn't send it to an unknown wallet, from the word unknown, it mean you doesn't know who owns that and basically yiu just need to ignore it. Because it maybe a scam. 

[Migo 7946]

Well I recommend you to sca' your pc with anti virus, try kespersky, and this is like a ransomware so there is a tool named rakhni decryptor for kespersky use it it is very helpful, or like you said you don't have any personal date on your pc so try to reset your computer or change windows 

[avatarkiyoshi 270]

13 hours ago, Brushless4500KV said:

Some days ago, I received an E-mail in which someone had threatened me to publish my personal media files in social media groups. The title of the E-mail was my desktop password. This scammer told me that he now knows my password and has access to my computer and all my personal pictures and videos. Fortunately, I don't store my personal info on my PC and use an external hard drive for this kind of information. The E-mail contains a bitcoin wallet address and the scammer has asked me to send $500 worth of bitcoin to his wallet to forget about revealing my personal info on the web. I changed my password immediately after reading this E-mail and switched to normal user from admin to block everyone's access to the vital program files in my PC. I have never received such an E-mail before and I don't know how this scammer has managed to find my password. Maybe I visited a website that contained malware. My antivirus and anti-malware are always on. Anyway, what do you recommend me to do at this moment?

Don't panic, check out your entire computer system if you find malicious thing running without you knowing, it's possibly your computer infected by ransomware.

If it turns out clean, possibly you just blackmailed.

[Naga 1250]

Thats a pretty awful thing to read because those email scammera are getting very dangerous but what you should do is buy an anti virus and not just download one because when you buy anti virus it will protect your email as wel.

[CryptoMaxim 3829]

14 hours ago, Brushless4500KV said:

Some days ago, I received an E-mail in which someone had threatened me to publish my personal media files in social media groups. The title of the E-mail was my desktop password. This scammer told me that he now knows my password and has access to my computer and all my personal pictures and videos. Fortunately, I don't store my personal info on my PC and use an external hard drive for this kind of information. The E-mail contains a bitcoin wallet address and the scammer has asked me to send $500 worth of bitcoin to his wallet to forget about revealing my personal info on the web. I changed my password immediately after reading this E-mail and switched to normal user from admin to block everyone's access to the vital program files in my PC. I have never received such an E-mail before and I don't know how this scammer has managed to find my password. Maybe I visited a website that contained malware. My antivirus and anti-malware are always on. Anyway, what do you recommend me to do at this moment?

I would not send (Especially since you do not store personal data) and would change Windows. Since there is a virus in your computer. Perhaps the virus got when downloading files.

[Crypto123 0]

I think it will lie as long as you say that you keep your pictures and data on an external drive, it just tries to scare you and exploit it, but if you think you are correct, I advise you to make a copy of your important data and format the system's drive then reinstall a new system and install a powerful anti-virus program and check all the files on the computer to clean them If they are infected with any kind of malware.

[miskyming 1588]

do you scan your computer with anti virus? scan it now before it's too late. Maybe you downloaded some kind of a software that has virus in it. 

[Obydullah 65]

Hello brother have a good day with yobit and cryptotalk Also love this two project.Recently many scamer choose scamin for email marketing. I got scam mail 5-6 time but i ignor there mail .Cause i dont involved their acitiviti mail . someone tell me they have some bitcoin can i help him to withdraw it he give me some parcentage bitcoin But they share with me new website so i ignor this. You can also ignor all E-mail.

[FlatterCar 696]

Quite strange, because you could just ignore this letter. Me such letters come already which year, but they of course change content to attract my attention, but they immediately stand out, so as have bold exile is unknown far, so that they for me not the threat.

[Brushless4500KV 4214]

Thank you all for your answers. Now I feel much better!

I have to tell you, I have Malwarebytes installed on my PC. The version is 3.5.1 (It is not the latest version but not very old)

I scanned my PC recently and it didn't find any threats. Do you trust Malwarebytes?

I changed all my passwords in all websites and even changed my E-mail password to be safe.

What other things you recommend me to do? Are changing passwords and scanning PC with Malwarebytes enough to be relax and forget about any scammer attack?

I have heard that there are some softwares that can find passwords by testing every possible combinations. I think this scammer should have used one of these password finder softwares.

[Sezan789 18]

scamers are not friend. always scamers are devil.scamers always give offer so that they could attract you any how. so they give many known or unknown different thing. 

[scorpiali 5626]

Don't send any thing he is lie to you he don't know any password of your account he just try to make you scared to send him a money you need just to change your password and make more layer security to your account and it's done we all the time have some things like that

[Brushless4500KV 4214]

4 hours ago, xpertt said:

I recommend that you change all of your password and update your softwares because an outdated software may become the reason why they can enter your firewall, also don't send any money to their wallet. Start thinking if you open a suspicious link or if you visit unprotected sites, that may be one of the reason why someone enters your devices and steal all your identity. Or maybe that guy is just a scammer. Just don't send any money to the address.

I checked my browser history to see what websites I had visited before. When I first joined crypto world, I was only claiming from faucets and I visited many faucet websites each day. I suspect that maybe there was a malware in those websites that has infected my PC because when I visited some websites, I had to click on some captchas and when I clicked the captcha lots of new tabs were opened in my browser that contained irrelevant content. I think the malware has gained access to my PC through one of these tabs. I had also visited many short links because faucet websites automatically redirect you to short links and they also open many unwanted pop ups and ads in your browser.

I recommend everyone here to stay away from most faucet websites and only claim from legit ones. Even if a faucet is paying you, that doesn't guarantee its reliability.

[sdsonjoy50 886]

It is important to be careful not to send the crypto currency to the wrong address or to keep your crypto wallet password stored, change the password if this happens to you, and send the coins properly while sanding.

[pangitmo 186]

Don't send it. If you don't know about it, don't ever follow it. Be safe and think before doing a move.

[Gusion 321]

Even anti virus could not detect those malware if its too strong. Maybe they really got it when you visited a site and that site managed to look unto your files. But you're playing safe which is storing it to an external file which is good. Let us become secure when it comes to website because maybe that's the cause.

[Scottsummers 347]

I wouldn't worry too much about it. There are strong laws against actually publishing this kind of content. Most times this kind of scam they have a small amount of info like a desktop password which makes you think they have more. I wouldn't send anything to anyone. Ever. If you are so concerned contact your authorities.