Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Security researcher Graham Cluley says he has been forwarded a blackmail letter, sent to a member of the controversial Ashley Madison adultery website. In the letter the blackmailer says that unless $2,000 worth of bitcoin is paid within 10 days, the recipient's wife, friends and colleagues will be informed of his misdemeanors. In a threatening twist, the letter goes on to give personal details of another victim who refused to pay the blackmailers, and how his personal life and work were targeted as a result. Cluley's advice to recipients is not to pay the blackmailers, but to tell the U.S. Postal Inspectors Service.

Comments

this is blackmail?

[zephvark]

>unless $2000 worth of bitcoin is not paid

...I'm pretty sure he can afford to go ahead and not pay it, then. They apparently offered to screw him over only if he paid.

Re:this is blackmail?

[Anonymous Coward]

>unless $2000 worth of bitcoin is not paid

...I'm pretty sure he can afford to go ahead and not pay it, then. They apparently offered to screw him over only if he paid.

You should recognize this as the Piranha Brothers' "Other Operation," in which they select a victim and threaten to not beat him up if he doesn't pay them.

Re:You want to cheat on your wife?

[Anonymous Coward]

You are saying this was primarily marketed to closet gays in sub-Saharan Africa?

I think he's confusing the terms "blackmail" and "black male".