Posts Tagged ‘ransom demand’

There’s a scam going around at the moment. One of our clients got it via a “contact us” form, but its also been seen as an unsolicited email. The gist of the email is that they have  hacked your database and are going to destroy your site’s reputation — they appear to be demanding US$2000…

Saturday morning, not too early, on account of the party the night before, I check my email. Not happy to discover my business partner’s email has been hacked! Given we host the email, very much unhappy about it. In fact I had to spend more than 10sec to work out that it’s a scam. What…