'I am a hacker, and I have access to your operating system' Email Scam

Conmen online use countless different tricks and templates when creating and deploying phishing email campaigns. One of the latest ones is the ‘I am a hacker, and I have access to your operating system’ email scam. This is a sextortion tactic, which is designed to intimidate the target into paying cash to the attackers.

Users who have been targeted by the ‘I am a hacker, and I have access to your operating system’ email scam report that the message claimed that an unknown hacker has accessed their systems and recorded them while they were visiting an adult entertainment website. The conmen claim that the recorded compromising video will be sent to all the victim’s contacts, including their family and colleagues, unless they pay a ransom fee. The victim is asked to pay $1,000 in the shape of Bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies allow cyber crooks to maintain their anonymity and avoid negative repercussions. The con-artists have provided users with instructions on how to obtain Bitcoin and how to complete the payment. Malware experts have determined that the conmen behind the ‘I am a hacker, and I have access to your operating system’ email scam have already been paid $1,000, which goes to show that sextortion cons are a profitable venture for cybercriminals.

If you have been targeted by the ‘I am a hacker, and I have access to your operating system’ email scam, you should know that none of the attackers’ claims are true. The authors of the ‘I am a hacker, and I have access to your operating system’ email scam do not have a video of you browsing adult videos, so there is no point in even considering paying them. If you receive an email from the authors of this tactic, delete the message and block the sender to avoid future interactions.