Security News > 2023 > September > New ‘YouPorn’ sextortion 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.
In sextortion email scams the scammers pretend to have images or videos of you performing sexual acts and then demand money not publicly to publish them.
In the past, sextortion schemes pretended to be from hackers who claimed to infect your device and record videos of you performing sexual acts.
This week, a new sextortion scheme was shared on Twitter that pretends to be from the widely visited adult site YouPorn, warning that a sexually explicit video of the recipient was uploaded to its network of adult sites.
"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.