Security News > 2023 > September > Fake YouPorn extortion scam threatens to leak your sex tape
A new sextortion scam is making the rounds that pretends to be an email from the adult site YouPorn, warning that a sexually explicit video of you was uploaded to the site and suggesting you pay to have it taken down.
Threat actors have created various email extortion scams, including ones that pretend to be hitman contracts, bomb threats, CIA investigations, threats of installing ransomware, and threats to infect your family with Coronavirus.
"At our company, we take the security and privacy of our users very seriously, and we use advanced technology to help detect and prevent the distribution of non-consensual intimate images and videos," reads the fake email from YouPorn.
The email then lists a series of paid-for options that can be used to remove the video from YouPorn and all of the sites in the adult network.
"Our Plan A includes everything in the basic removal option, plus digitally fingerprinting of the content and automated removal and protection against re-uploading to our vast network of partner websites for one year, all for $699 USD," reads the extortion email.
The email then prompts the user to pay for the fake removal services by sending the payment to a listed Bitcoin address.