Sextortion emails: how to protect yourself

National Cyber Security Centre advice on Sextortion scams which are a type of phishing attack whereby people are coerced to pay a BitCoin ransom because they have been threatened with sharing video of themselves visiting adult websites. These scams are made to appear all the more credible because they provide seemingly plausible technical details about how this was achieved, and the phish can sometimes also include the individual’s password.

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https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/sextortion-scams-how-to-protect-yourself