Security News > 2020 > April > Porn scammers making $100,000 a month from sextortion emails
Did you receive one of those "Porn scam" emails in the past week or so?
As you can imagine, once recipients of these emails realise it's all a cruel and criminal hoax, and that some crook is simply preying on their fears, the pressure is off and they can relax.
Where do all these emails come from? Why can't they be stopped? How many people end up paying? Where does the money go?
Simply put: as well as intimidating and unnerving many millions of people around the globe with the offensive and scary nature of the email content, the crooks managed to pull in a cool $100,000 a month.
As to where the emails came from, the answer is, for the most part, that these huge sextortion spam surges came from innocent users whose computers were infected with spam-sending malware known as bots.