The entire body of the email is actually sent across as an inline JPEG image with the text inside it. Presumably, the crooks want to grab your attention, as well as giving anti-spam filters nothing predictable to look for in the subject. The subject line is your old password. This particular example has a few novelties: That long-breached, widely-known, already-changed (you did change it, right?), no-longer-important password is all they have the rest is just bluff. …but they never do that, for the very simple reason that they don’t have anything. Often, the password you’ll see really is (or was) one of yours, but it’s usually very old and you almost certainly changed it years ago.Īs many Naked Security readers have pointed out before, the only solid way for the crooks to prove that they had the sneaky evidence they claimed would be to share a clip of the alleged video with you… The last piece of ‘evidence’ the crooks give in this attack is to ‘prove’ that they do have access to your computer by including a password of yours. The crooks also claim to have infected your computer with malware by implanting it on the website you supposedly visited.Īgain, what they describe is theoretically possible but it’s not what actually happened in this case – it’s just more made-up scare tactics. However, in this case, the crooks don’t have a RAT on your computer – the story about remote control malware is just that: a story to scare you into paying up. That sort of malware does exist, and it’s often referred to by the term RAT, short for Remote Access Trojan. 
The scam version we’re discussing here looks like this:Īs you can see, the crooks justify their claim to have both browser screenshots and stolen webcam footage by saying they’ve planted remote control malware on your computer.
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