{"id":8999,"date":"2024-10-01T17:08:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2024-10-01T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T23:00:37","slug":"beware-fake-sextortion-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/beware-fake-sextortion-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Fake Blackmail Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All those data breaches are coming back to haunt us. Once our phone numbers and addresses began to be leaked, it was only a matter of time before scammers would personalize their attacks to make them seem more real. The latest \u201csextortion\u201d scams purport to have compromising video of you taken from your computer\u2019s webcam, backing it up with your phone number and a Google Street View-like image that matches your leaked address. They make a lot of claims and dire-sounding threats, but talk is cheap, and there\u2019s nothing behind them. <b>Do not pay the scammers!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10652\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/beware-fake-sextortion-scams.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"129\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All those data breaches are coming back to haunt us. Once our phone numbers and addresses began to be leaked, it was only a matter of time before scammers would personalize their attacks to make them seem more real. The latest \u201csextortion\u201d scams purport to have compromising video of you taken from your computer\u2019s webcam, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,112,185,104,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","category-security","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9017,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999\/revisions\/9017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}