The Marquette County Sheriff’s Office and the NMU Police Department have received complaints of an email scam that threatens the victim to pay the scammer with Bitcoins (cryptocurrency), or the victim’s contacts will be sent pictures and videos of the victim viewing pornographic images.
The scammers tell the victim his or her password that was most likely obtained in a hack of a legitimate website.
The scammer then uses the knowledge of the victim’s password to claim they have more knowledge or pornographic online activity.
If anyone receives an email with this type of threat, police say to change all passwords and watch credit reports for the suspicious activity in case personal information was compromised.
