{"id":31097,"date":"2018-11-02T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eudonet.com\/dealing-with-blackmail-email\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:06:47","slug":"dealing-with-blackmail-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eudonet.com\/en\/resources\/blog\/dealing-with-blackmail-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with blackmail email"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NetAnswer takes care of the security of your data every day. In particular, we have implemented irreversible password encryption that makes it impossible for even NetAnswer to access them. However, some of our customers, and probably some of their members, receive ransomware emails where their passwords are written in clear text. Here is the cause.<\/p>\n

For more than a year, a large e-mail scam campaign has been going on. It consists of blackmail in exchange for a payment via Bitcoin to ensure the hacker\u2019s silence.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what the email may look like:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The hacker claims that there was a security breach in your router, that a virus (trojan) infected your computer in order to retrieve your password and contacts, that screenshots of sites not divulgeable to your entourage were taken or that your webcam was monitored and images of you recorded during intimate moments.<\/p>\n

There are 3 reasons why this scam has been so successful:<\/p>\n