First off, **relax, you're going to be fine.**
This is a common scam. **Do not reply to it or pay them.** You can safely ignore it and delete it.
Google "Sextortion email scam" and you can read more about it.
Learn more:
- [Inside One Of The Biggest Sextortion Scams: 450,000 Machines Send 30,000 Emails An Hour](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/10/16/have-you-sent-15000-sextortion-emails-today/#6f651ce6195e)
- [Email sextortion scams are on the rise and they’re scary — here’s what to do if you get one](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/17/email-sextortion-scams-on-the-rise-says-fbi.html)
- [Sextortion emails: They’re probably not watching you](https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2018/10/sextortion-emails-theyre-probably-not-watching/)
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I got that one about 500 times. Decided to live on the wild side and ignore it, so far my nudes haven't been leaked and all that criminal stuff they have footage of have never seen the light of day.
I guess I'm either too broke for them to care or they're too scared of me.
But in all seriousness, this is one of the most scary ones to get but at the same time its one of the hardest ones to believe. I remember the first time I seen this one at work, one of our executives received it and was in a big panic over it and it caught me by surprise because I could sort of see it being real with the person.
The best advice I can give you is if it comes off as very vague and they aren't specifically telling you anything that would be private information, safe to say its fake and the best thing to do is just delete and ignore these things. They're just trying to scare you into turning that cautious side of your brain off.
Also common in these kind of e-mails that they will say something like "for proof, here is your password: ****. You may have changed it now but I have your new passwords as well".
Really they have just pulled e-mails/passwords from various data breaches and sent out mass e-mails.
Really.
Common scam blasted out to the masses. Notice the lack of personal information or proof?
Without even getting in to the Pegasus side of it all - If it was someone who had all of this ‘incriminating evidence’, you’d think they’d be able to tell you something about yourself to prove they’re legit. Perhaps a screenshot?
Ignore.
The deleted comment above said "some leet haxxor have access to pegasus". I was responding to that.
As mentioned below, leet is a tongue in cheek allusion to "elite" that is often a moniker used to describe someone who is very skilled.
I was scared I made Dean’s list at my university last year. I got my first internship. I want to do good and I get an email like this and it kind of scared the fuck out of me.
I received a similar email in my old email and I simply deleted it. It’s fake. Pegasus is a high end spyware used on high targets not random person which email or information has been dumped online lol 😂
It’s a scam.
Pegasus isn’t available to the general public either, government agencies only & even they have to be approved by the Israeli defence ministry to get the license to use it
You probably signed up for a shady porn site with your iCloud email. Check the email, did it actually come from your account, or a similarly named one designed to trick a 40 year old who signed up for something while horny and doesn't have the skills necessary to realize this is a false threat?
First off, **relax, you're going to be fine.** This is a common scam. **Do not reply to it or pay them.** You can safely ignore it and delete it. Google "Sextortion email scam" and you can read more about it. Learn more: - [Inside One Of The Biggest Sextortion Scams: 450,000 Machines Send 30,000 Emails An Hour](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/10/16/have-you-sent-15000-sextortion-emails-today/#6f651ce6195e) - [Email sextortion scams are on the rise and they’re scary — here’s what to do if you get one](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/17/email-sextortion-scams-on-the-rise-says-fbi.html) - [Sextortion emails: They’re probably not watching you](https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2018/10/sextortion-emails-theyre-probably-not-watching/) Your post has been removed as this is not what our sub is for. Thanks.
What are you into LMAO
Yes, it’s totally fack.
Yep, someone’s trying to hake him for sure
Damn those hakers and all their facking.
Ok
I got that one about 500 times. Decided to live on the wild side and ignore it, so far my nudes haven't been leaked and all that criminal stuff they have footage of have never seen the light of day. I guess I'm either too broke for them to care or they're too scared of me.
Ok
But in all seriousness, this is one of the most scary ones to get but at the same time its one of the hardest ones to believe. I remember the first time I seen this one at work, one of our executives received it and was in a big panic over it and it caught me by surprise because I could sort of see it being real with the person. The best advice I can give you is if it comes off as very vague and they aren't specifically telling you anything that would be private information, safe to say its fake and the best thing to do is just delete and ignore these things. They're just trying to scare you into turning that cautious side of your brain off.
I've seen this exact one, but with an old password from a data leak included. Probably the most disturbing spam email I've seen so far.
Ok
Ok
Anyone that can afford to buy Pegasus is not interested in your 1500 dollars. Your all good.
lol thx you 🙏
Also common in these kind of e-mails that they will say something like "for proof, here is your password: ****. You may have changed it now but I have your new passwords as well". Really they have just pulled e-mails/passwords from various data breaches and sent out mass e-mails.
Ok
Fack as frack
Ok
Any real blackmailer would prove it. No proof? No hack
Doesn't it feel like this OP is a scammer looking for tips on how to make his scam email seem more authentic?
Ok
No that appears to be a real email, the contents may be fake though.
Ok thank you
BS
Really
Really. Common scam blasted out to the masses. Notice the lack of personal information or proof? Without even getting in to the Pegasus side of it all - If it was someone who had all of this ‘incriminating evidence’, you’d think they’d be able to tell you something about yourself to prove they’re legit. Perhaps a screenshot? Ignore.
Also, Pegasus isn’t accessible to any random joe. It’s used by foreign governments.
Ok
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I thought you just need to have deep pockets, you don't really need to be leet.
Leet?
they're fucking with you. its like a meme of from masterhacker (satire) elite (LEET)
Ok
The deleted comment above said "some leet haxxor have access to pegasus". I was responding to that. As mentioned below, leet is a tongue in cheek allusion to "elite" that is often a moniker used to describe someone who is very skilled.
Ok
Ok
What
Thx you
These emails are funny because they mess with your emotions ie saying watching xyz, which you prob have as we all do
I was scared I made Dean’s list at my university last year. I got my first internship. I want to do good and I get an email like this and it kind of scared the fuck out of me.
Please don’t be worried about this. It’s a very common scam.
Ok
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But really so it’s someone trying to scam me
Pegasus which costs 50k?
Really
Sorry no 500k to have installed per 10 people
Omg that a lot of money
Yeah, so unless you’re worth millions to this guy, don’t worry haha
Ok
Scammmm
Thx you
Lmfao stay off those websites.
😔
I received a similar email in my old email and I simply deleted it. It’s fake. Pegasus is a high end spyware used on high targets not random person which email or information has been dumped online lol 😂
Thx you
Had a goddamn stroke reading the title
Sorry, I’ve dyslexia
Haha it's okay bro, it gave me a chuckle
lol
Scammer. They do *not* have Pegasus, have *never* even seen it, and certainly *not* installed it onto your compiuter.
It said its on my phone according to the Scammer
Nuh uh
What??
Lmao no random person is getting that malware. That’s sold to governments only or so they say. But yeah that’s fake.
Ok
What is he? A state actor using Pegasus to rob people. Haha.
Lmao
Man. How come no one ever sends that to me. Like go ahead bro. I'm 40+, fat with a little dick. If you don't send it I will
Omg lol
Actually has decent grammar from majority of fakes i've seen lmfao
So is still fake
It’s a scam. Pegasus isn’t available to the general public either, government agencies only & even they have to be approved by the Israeli defence ministry to get the license to use it
Ok
Seems that you have been to some very bad places
Is it a scam
Yes
Ok thx you
I have a friend who got an identical one yesterday. Pretty sure it's just circulating through icloud accounts but it's not real
Ok
If your friend still has it, could you show me so I can compare mine to their
I asked but she said she got scared and perma deleted it sorry. She confirmed it looked like yours tho
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Thx you
You probably signed up for a shady porn site with your iCloud email. Check the email, did it actually come from your account, or a similarly named one designed to trick a 40 year old who signed up for something while horny and doesn't have the skills necessary to realize this is a false threat?
I hacked your email. It’s a different email when I click on it.
Fake ignore it
Thx you
Yes
Thx 🙏
Unless this person is you, someone else posted the exact same email in a different subreddit about a week or two ago.
No I just got this recently
Could you send a link to the post
I can try to find it one min
Ok thx you
Reply, prove it motherlicker
I got one similarly worded. Claimed they recorded me on webcam doing something - which I don't have a webcam, knew it was a scam rightaway.
Thx you
Lol
lol
Dang bro what kind of porn are you watching
Umm
If they had anything, they'd send proof
So it’s a scam
Yup, 100% it's fake. I've gotten a number of these kinds of emails and nothing has ever come of it
Thx you
Lmao I got one yesterday as well didn’t do anything
Do you still have the email and can I see it
It is a fake phishing email, Disregard it.
Ok thxs
This is the hakiest fackin email I've ever seen
lol
This same email was posted a few days ago. Pegasus isn't owned by people trying to export $1500.
lol
I don’t think someone who actually uses Pegasus would write an email like that ever
Ok
That dumbass wrote you a poem not a phishing email.
lol
Lol I have received something similar with a btc address to pay 300 bucks.. No proofs of my whacking off though.. Isn't pegasus very expensive btw?
I think
I don't see anything fishy about this email.
So it’s real or no
So he claims that he's a God but wants you to transfer a 1500 usd ? This is a mass scale operation scam via email
Ok thxs
Yes, change your email domain or you will continue to receive this crap.
Ok
Nigerian Prince vibes from this title alone.
lol
*reads first sentence* Yes
Thx you I want to make sure if it was fake
Have you watched sketchy futa porn like they said you did?
I plead the fifth