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Scam

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Because so many identical emails have been received by administrators and lists, I thought it would be appropriate to make a public warning against falling for this particular scam. Please note, these emails have been sent to some addresses that do not even exist. So I would bet they have nothing of what they claim to have of anyone they are sending these to.

This is a scam email. Please do not fall for it.

From:    prodatary@rmc101.com
Subject: Fw:


Subject: Fw:
Good day.

Your system has been hacked with a Trojan virus.

It has penetrated your device through adult portals which you sometimes visit.

Some spicy videos contain malicious code that activates after being turned on. Your entire information has already been copied to my servers.

I possess complete control over your device which you use to access the Internet.

I can see your screen, I can use a microphone and a camera in a way that you never notice anything.

I’ve already made a screen recording.

A video was edited with a pornographic movie that you were watching at that time and masturbating.

Your face is perfectly visible and I don’t think that this kind of content will have a positive impact on your reputation.

I have an overall access to your list of contacts and the social media profiles. I can send this video from your E-mail or the messengers.

If you don’t want to let this happen, then you only need to take one simple step.

Just transfer 1000 USD (US dollars) to Bitcoin wallet: bc1q8uyk649jq3fhvcjut6fkj6e4x2tazmyft5wytc

(In a Bitcoin equivalent at the exchange rate for the time of transfer)

You can find the detailed instructions in Google.

After the payment I will remove the video and the virus from your device and no one will bother you anymore.

If I won’t receive the payment in due time, all of your data and the videos will become publicly available.

I give you 2 days.

I shall receive a notification that you have read the letter.

The timer starts immediately.

Any complain somewhere, including the police, is useless. My wallet and an E-mail cannot be tracked.

If I find out that you have shared this message with someone else, the video will become publicly available at once.

I will destroy your reputation forever and all your data will go public.

Everyone will learn about your passion for the porn sites and more. Changing the passwords will be useless either as all the data is already on my servers.

Don’t forget that reputation is very important and be prudent!


Please stay safe and do not fall for any of these scammy emails.

Protonmail

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These links are in different languages.

They are about the latest on Protonmail, an email provider that advertises itself as a privacy guarantor.

According to Protonmail’s own statement,

“under Swiss law, Proton can be forced to collect information on accounts belonging to users under Swiss criminal investigation”

ProtonMail then can be forced to keep logs. It does not say it is forced to keep logs.

“This is obviously not done by default, but only if Proton gets a legal order for a specific account.”

It implies but does not say if ProtonMail did get a legal order for a specific account.

“We only comply with legally binding orders from Swiss authorities.” The word ‘only’ can be taken off without changing the core meaning of the sentence.

“Under current Swiss law, email and VPN are treated differently, and ProtonVPN cannot be compelled to log user data.” Therefore ProtonMail can. Otherwise it would have to read simply ‘Proton’, like in other paragraphs.

“We only know that the order for data from the Swiss government came through channels typically reserved for serious crimes.”

From these paragraphs it can only be inferred that the Swiss authorities requested email logs and these were granted.

There is a simple way to not have to give logs to the authorities: don’t keep them.

Apparently,

Protonmail has snitched on one of their users, activists who were subsequently arrested by the cops, by providing IP and web browser information, confirming they keep that in their logs.
https://secoursrouge.org/france-suisse-securite-it-protonmail-a-communique-a-la-police-ladresse-ip-de-militant%c2%b7es-anti-gentrification/
https://nitter.42l.fr/andyyen/status/1434592450916589569
https://twitter.com/tenacioustek/status/1434604102676271106
https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/



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mailman list admins!

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You may have a list with aktivix – or any other provider of mailman lists. This applies to most if not all mailman list services.

So you are one of the administrators of a mailman list – because you really, really should be one of several administrators.

And you may think that it has been hacked because you continue to receive spam sent to you specifically, starting with “Hi . Most likely it is addressed to the list, then blocked as it comes from an address not subscribed to it, or to the owner of the list, which is, all the addresses listed in the ‘admin’ field.

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Blackmail

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This email was received on the abuse@indymedia email address, it’s so brilliant it should be shared.

Hello, I work as a private investigator.
Our company received an order to hack into your email, phone, cloud, network and to collect intelligence.
We work with hackers from China for tasks like that, and they are the best. But we do have an ethical protocol in place.
After checking on the person, who ordered the hack and investigation on you, I have decided to come forward and offer you to buy the information about that person.

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Aktivix cleaning

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The aktivix mail server needs some serious upgrading and updating. Servers need free space for this, and this server does not have it. So aktivix is doing some clearning.

We did three mailouts with the idea that, those who wouldn’t answer any of them, would loose their email accounts. The post on the website says more.

What we didn’t anticipate is that so few of the users would answer. Continue reading →

aktivix email service and the web interfaces

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There were two web interfaces you could use to check your aktivix emails: horde and roundcube. Due to circumstances beyond aktivix’s control, we can no longer support roundcube.

As for horde – webmail is really only a backup for those occasions when you are not sitting in front of your own computer. Of course if you do not own a computer you do need to use the web alternative, but if you have access to the same computer/s regularly, you are encouraged to have a copy of thunderbird for you especially if you want to easily use encryption and other nice bits, like .. read on. Continue reading →

Privacy is not terrorism

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On Tuesday 16th December 2014, a large police operation took place in the Spanish State. Fourteen houses and social centres were raided in Barcelona, Sabadell, Manresa and Madrid; books, leaflets and IT material were seized; and eleven people were arrested and sent to the Audiència Nacional, a special court handling issues of “national interest”, in Madrid. Continue reading →