Hopefully some of you reported it to the FBI (I wish I would have) so this can be taken care of asap.Ī side note: my message didn't include my name or anything and the grammar was much much better than a lot of the examples I've seen online. It's been over 48 hours and I haven't seen any effects threatened luckily! I'm still a little startled, especially because my phone number wasn't breached according to the website where you can check? My gmail was breached 5 times though, and since they're connected I can only assume that's where the info came from! Scams are getting really close to home nowadays, if I didn't have my husband around to calm me down I probably would have fallen for this. Immediately after getting the message I deleted it (so I wouldn't be tempted to click the links provided), closed my PayPal account, changed all my passwords that resembled the one in the message, and checked for malware on my phone and laptop. and that's not true at all? (Plus I got my laptop in August so there's no way they hacked that in March lol)Īnyway, I get scammy texts often but this one freaked me out quite a bit. Finally, the message acted like I was receiving the email through a computer.
A few aspects were similar and the number in the password was the same which makes me think that the breach involving my passwords didn't expose that entire one. Next would be that the password used for leverage wasn't entirely accurate. First off, I cant sign into the "email" they sent this through because that's literally just my phone number. A couple things were fishy right away for me. The person also said that my device would be locked and that they hacked me back in March. I received a text (to my phone number or whatever) and was horribly creeped out, the message demanded $750 worth of bitcoin and threatened me with 48 hours to pay up or pictures of me using dirty websites would be sent to my friends and family.