Web porn extortion attempt misfires

CTV says that people who visit porn sites are being targeted by extortionists, but that’s not entirely true. I’ve received such messages in the past and see in my spam filter than I got one four days ago, and another four days before that.

I don’t visit porn sites, but these scammers did know my LinkedIn password, which I have since changed.

They also claim to have cam video of my porn visits (I don’t have a cam) and will only delete the file if I pay $1128 in bitcoin, otherwise they’ll send the video to all my contacts.

Really quite clever to be using stolen LinkedIn passwords for this, as the gullible might well be scared by the thought of job prospects being ruined by such revelations. I wonder why $1128, though.