A new type of scam is making the rounds online, pretending to be an email from the website YouPorn. It warns users that sex tapes of themselves have been uploaded to the site and asks them to pay to have them removed.
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YouPorn is a well-known content , but like all platforms , it is not completely protected from malicious actors. It is extremely important for users to be aware of potential scams and how to deal with them in order to maintain the security of their personal and digital information.
In these email scams , scammers pretend to have photos or videos of users engaging in sexual acts and then ask for money to keep them from being posted publicly.
In the past, these campaigns have pretended to be from hackers, claiming to have infected the device and recorded videos of the user engaging in sexual acts. They then threatened to leak the videos to the user's contacts, family, and friends unless the user paid a ransom ranging from $500 to $5,000.
While these campaigns may seem innocuous, they were quite successful when they were first introduced in 2018, generating over $50,000 in one week.
Since then, malicious actors have created various email extortion scams, including ones pretending to be contract killers, bomb threats, CIA investigations, ransomware , and threats to infect users' families with coronavirus.
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This week, was posted on Twitter that pretends to be from the popular adult website YouPorn. The program warns the recipient that sex tapes of them have been uploaded to the adult website.
This email pretends to be from info@youporn.com and has the subject line “Uploaded Content: Comments Required.” It warns you that the purported video will be posted on the site in the next seven days unless you request its removal.
This email contains a link that appears to allow you to remove the video for free. However, these links are invalid, causing your browser to open its home page.
The email then contains a series of payments that can be made to have the video removed from YouPorn and other similar content sites on the network. However, these services cost $199, $699, or $1,399, with each tier offering additional protection services. The email then urges the user to pay for fake removal services by sending the payment to a registered Bitcoin.
Fortunately, the campaign was unsuccessful and no payments have yet been made to any of the aforementioned Bitcoin addresses. However, it is possible that other addresses in this campaign.
We would like to emphasize that these emails are scams. There have been reports of people receiving them and being asked to pay to specific Bitcoin addresses.
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If you receive this email, simply delete it. While it may sound scary, it's a simple scam.
