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FBI Warns of Email Death Threats Demanding Bitcoin (abc7.com)
An anonymous reader writes:
"I will be short. I've got an order to kill you," the note said, demanding $2,800 in U.S. dollars or Bitcoin. "I switched from being upset about it to, 'I need to get the word out'," one of its targets told a local newscaster. They filed a report through the FBI's web site.
"If only 1% of people send money -- there's no overhead for them; that's money in the bank," one FBI agent tells the news team. A quick Google search finds recent reports of two nearly identical threats using the same text.
"I have been thinking for a long time whether it is worth sending this notice, and decided that you still have the right to know... I've got an order to kill you, because some of your activity causes trouble to several people... I decided to break some rules, as this will be my final order... As soon as I receive the funds, I will forward you the name of the man [this] order came from, and all other information I have."
"If only 1% of people send money -- there's no overhead for them; that's money in the bank," one FBI agent tells the news team. A quick Google search finds recent reports of two nearly identical threats using the same text.
"I have been thinking for a long time whether it is worth sending this notice, and decided that you still have the right to know... I've got an order to kill you, because some of your activity causes trouble to several people... I decided to break some rules, as this will be my final order... As soon as I receive the funds, I will forward you the name of the man [this] order came from, and all other information I have."
I think investing in the currency of extortionists and criminals is a prudent move.
I'll take one bitcoin for $20,000 please, and please store my investment on a web server controlled by the Yakuza.
I can understand being under some stress about now. You almost wanna play hardball with Qatar as a national policy just to get your 666 5th avenue money, gnome sayin? Prison gon be testin' for slim shady the minionaire
About death threats. The head of the FFC skipped the CES event because of threats. Slashdot whined that he did not attend because he could not defend his anti net neutrality standing.
The FBI should pay the $2,800 in Bitcoin, then deanonymize the transaction to find out who received the money. Once they know who received the money, execute the person who made the threat. Chances are that they're not in the United States, but there are more than enough American operatives around the world to make it happen. It would do society a favor to eliminate those who use criminal activity to mooch off of others and possibly terrify them in the process. In this case, it would be justice to execute the criminal.
It ought to be legal to lynch criminals who create scams like this. Bring back lynching. It would do a tremendous about of good for society.
"The scam e-mail, which first appeared in December 2006, purports to be a hired assassin, but is in reality a mass spamming looking to grab your personal information. Replying to the e-mails just sends a signal to senders that they’ve reached a live account. It also escalates the intimidation, the FBI said in a report last year."
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2007/january/threatscam_111507
Man if they're only asking for $2800, they're definitely targeting the wrong 1%.
People watch too many movies. Hired killers aren't Leon the Professional. They're Joe-Bob the alcoholic that your wife met at the bar and slipped $500 to whack you with a crowbar. That's why they get caught all the time, in the rare case that it's not just a sting to catch people trying to hire a contract killer.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
I'd like to think that the guy hired to kill me would need a lot more than $2800 to double-cross the guy that hired him to kill me. How little did I piss someone off for it to only be worth $2800 to call off the killing?
;P
Had it with it. Used for crime. Wastes electricity. It's a Ponzi scheme. Not a substitute for fiat currency. So fuck it. Ban it. If you don't like the way your fiat currency is being used then stop voting the same shitty politicians.
Honestly, the letter would sound a whole lot more convincing if there were a few more zeroes in the figure... at least 2 more, and more likely 3.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
the one that purports to come from l33t haxorz in .ru or .ro, claiming to have downloaded malware to your computer when you visited a porn site, harvesting your address book and social media contacts, and turning on your webcam and microphone to record you masturbating. "Pay us bitcoin or we'll send the footage to everyone in your contact lists. Your police can't do anything as we're not in your country."
The spelling from the threat above is just a guess, my interpretation of what was actually received. The real message is atrocious, I've seen 419 scams with better spelling.
I should create a social media "presence" one day - it could be fun, poisoning that well.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
So death
Please send $2800 in DogeCoin to stop
Wow
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Bitcoin stealing has reached a whole new level. sad
websites used also get requests like
i_will_killl_you_today
back then and recorded - so the nsa and five eyes know as they record traffic in Room 641A
Some are never caught, some caught decades after. You don't hear much about them because they don't whack joe random,'s wife they whack other in the drug trade which are obstacle, or broke a rule. And since most don't care about those victims, neither do they make good selling news, you don't hear about them. Sure Leon was a fiction. But real killer for hire do exists and do not get caught. In fact fully 50% to 70% of murder never get caught.
they've got no overhead so they're really cutting into the cost of hiring an assassin. Sure I can call a hit out on somebody for a fiver, but your getting an untrained amateur instead of a licensed & trained murderer. The other day a 'ninja' showed up to kill me wearing black pajamas and what looked like a plastic sword. I gave him one star.
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These so called "death threats" are almost certainly not true. I bet the FBI is working for Soros and Clinton and just trying to find a way to frame more innocent folks just like they did to Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and Julian Assange.
I received one of these a few months ago. I use a different email address for every website I sign up on, so I can figure out where my spam comes from and easily block it. The Bitcoin ransom email went to the address that I used to sign up at Untuckit (the shirt company).
I replied to a post on Reddit where another person had received an identical letter, and turns out they were an Untuckit customer too. I emailed Untuckit to let them know that their database had been stolen/hacked, but received no response from them.
So, I wouldn't buy anything from Untuckit unless you want to have threats made on your life.
The only measured and resonable response is "Bring it on Bitch!!"
I rarely read my email. And I don't believe in BitCoin. I wonder if they'd accept milk and cookies or my firstborn?
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