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Pascal Aeschbacher
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Targeted by criminals: the boss of the Künzli shoes company, Barbara Artmann.
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Pascal Aeschbacher
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She had recently “panicked”. She’d received an email from fraudsters trying to blackmail her into fake porn.
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Artmann with a sneaker manufactured by her company.
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Artmann was not intimidated and turned to IT specialists from the Zurich Cantonal Police.
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She didn’t pay – and nothing happened. But many victims of such extortion attempts are intimidated and transfer large amounts out of fear.
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Barbara Artmann is the head of the traditional Aargau company Künzli Schuhe. She recently “panicked,” she says. She had received an email from cyber fraudsters. They would have filmed them on webcam as they watched porn. If she doesn’t immediately pay $ 1327 in Bitcoin, the video will be sent to all of her contacts.
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A horror idea for the company boss, how the CH Media newspapers report in their Saturday edition. She has “never visited such a site, but even if a foreign porn picture is sent to my contacts, it would be fatal because I have dozens of politicians, business people and journalists in my contacts.”
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Criminals put on fear card
The extortionists even had a password from her that she had used on a website: “I was terrified. I really started to wonder if they have access to my computer. »
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Finally Artmann kept a cool head. She turned to cybercrime specialists from the Zurich Cantonal Police. These calmed down. The senders of such a fake sextorization scam generally have no access to compromising material. According to the police, they are betting on the fear card.
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What unsettled Artmann was that the apparently hacked password was in circulation by her. But fraudsters can buy hacked passwords on the dark web and use them to trick victims into believing their computers have been cracked. In addition, the extortioners had linked Artmann’s private address to their business email.
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Internet extortion cases are increasing
“Attackers often invest a lot of time in spying on potential victims,” said Max Klaus, deputy director of Melani, the federal IT security agency. So the amount requested of $ 1237 was quite high compared to other claims. The fraudsters know their victims: a company boss is blackmailed by more than a cleaning lady.
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Entrepreneur Artmann got away with the horror. Others pay. Melani, the federal IT security agency, also monitors Bitcoin accounts in connection with fraud schemes in Switzerland. They contain Bitcoin worth two million francs. The same investigation in the previous six months had shown “only” 360,000 extorted Swiss francs. (KES)
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