I was planning to say hello, but now I think greetings are unnecessary.

Let me grab a seat.

Firstly, I already know you and all your loved ones very well.

Secondly, the occasion for which I’m writing to you is not the happiest one for a friendly greeting.

I don’t think so.  I think you have sent an email to an address scooped up in the 2012 Dropbox leak and sent a sextortion email to it.

You’ve heard that the Internet is a dangerous place, infested with malicious links and hackers like me?

Of course, you’ve heard, but what’s the point in it if you are so dismissive of your internet security and don’t care what websites you visit?

Times have changed. You read about AI, judging by your browser history, and still didn’t understand anything?

You’re not a hacker, you’re a chancer.  But don’t let me stop you, please go on….

Technologies have stepped far forward, and now hackers like me use artificial intelligence.

Thanks to it, I can get not only access to your webcam and record your fun with highly controversial video (I recorded it also, but now that’s not the point), but also to all your devices and not only yours.

And I saved a special sauce for this dish. I went further and sent malicious links to all your contacts from your account.

You used AI to access my webcam that I turned off because the drives causes BSODs on my PC?  That’s amazing, I can hardly believe it.

Yes, someone was smarter and realized that this was a trap and you were hacked, but believe me, about 70% of your contact list (and these are your friends, colleagues, and family) bought into my scam.

They have as many skeletons in their closet as you do. Some turn out to be hidden homosexuals…

Hidden homosexuals?  Oh my, is that like closet homosexuals?  And this fact – that you make up – seems to be important for you.  Do you want to come out?  It’s 2024, it’s OK.

I have accumulated and analyzed a huge amount of compromising data on you and those with whom you communicate.

Very soon I’ll start a crossfire – everyone will receive the full history of correspondence (and there are enough of “sensitive moments”) and recordings from the other contact’s webcam.

I can go further and put all these files, as well as the recorded fun of you and your hacked contacts with “hardcore videos” into the public domain.

This crossfire sounds interesting.  Do I need an external drive to store all of the crap you’re not going to send me?

You can imagine, it will be a real sensation!

And everyone will understand where it came from – from you.

For all your contacts and, you will be enemy number one. Even your relatives will take a long time to forgive you and forget such a family shame…

I doubt it.  I know it’s not going to happen.

It will be the real end of the world. The only difference is that there will be not four horsemen of the apocalypse, but only one – (= But there is no such thing as a completely black stripe without any white dots.

Luckily for you, in my case the “Three M Rule” comes into play – Money, Money and Money again.

You ramble a lot.  Perhaps next time get ChatGPT to write your sextortion email text?  That’s the only AI useful to you.

I’m not interested in your worthless life, I’m interested in people from whom I can profit.

And today you are one of them.

Not interested?  But you “hacked” me therefore you must have been interested.

That’s why: Transfer $1390 in Bitcoin to: 1PPJpvSPbbMwbESJZXGS8VtKiFQkmm7DvK …within 48 hours!

Within 48 hours!  Nope.

You don’t know how to use cryptocurrencies? Use Google, everything is simple.

I do – but I don’t need to pay you anything.  I’m wearing FUD-resistant underwear today….

Once payment is received, I will delete all information associated with you and you will never hear from me again.

The data you don’t have?  And if I don’t pay, I won’t hear from you again anyway.  Win, win for me!

Remember one thing: my crypto address is anonymous, and I generated this letter in your mailbox and sent it to you.

You can call the cops, do whatever you want – they won’t find me, my demands won’t change, but you’ll just waste precious time.

You relayed the mail through some Thai endpoint:

ppp-124-120-11-206.revip2.asianet.co.th (124.120.11.206)

The clock is ticking. Tick tock, a minute out of 48 hours has passed right now. An hour will soon pass, and in two days your old life will pass forever.

Either goodbye forever (if I get my payment), or hello to a brave new world in which there will be no place for you.

Well you were in my spam and I was busy.  Hello Brave New World!

Hasta La Vista, Baby!

P.S. Almost forgot. Finally learn what incognito tabs, two-factor authentication, and the TOR browser are, for God’s sake!

I assume you were under a rock and missed the news that Incognito is not really “incognito”.

Edited to add more wallet being used in sextortion emails using the same text: 1A2uApEqhixtRBbtWiRjFgTzbNa5A9xyRD from 113.21.230.131 and 16ao3XGt97R9we1Rr5BRAw6xn3sTkJcKdh from 58.97.217.32, 196.206.10.63, 124.122.90.188 and 190.233.83.180