I just got an email saying that malware got on my computer when I visited a pornography website. They have a video of what I was watching, and also a video of me watching it taken though my camera. They will send them to everyone on my contacts list if I don't pay them $4,000.
They even had my password to prove they were on my computer.
I just don't know what to do!
Now of course no woodworker would ever go to a pornography website, but they do have my password so they could easily just take a video of me using SMC and intermix their own pornography. It would be identical. Oh wait... doesn't the fact that it can be so easily faked make the threat meaningless? More a funny anecdote than a real problem?
And I routinely run 3 malware scanners, none of which detected anything amiss; but they could easily be super competent hackers who know how to get around the best scanners and chose to use their knowledge on a cheap thing like this rather than something they can make real money on it. Sure that makes sense.
After all, they have my password. No way they could have gotten the password I use on 200 websites that I don't care about except by infecting my computer. I mean, its not like anyone could have guessed that I used my wife's name as a throwaway password. And websites are never hacked, losing passwords.
The only thing that makes me feel better is that my computer doesn't have a camera. But perhaps they are so good they got around that also.
Oh, I don't know what to do.
I wonder if anyone sends them $4,000?