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Blog / Re: SCAM WARNING - Bitcoin Sextortion & Blackmail Scams
« Last post by kat on August 31, 2023, 10:10:48 AM »
Text of bitcoin sexploitation email scam version #270483

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(Email Subject) Subject: Your private information has been stolen because of suspicious events.

Greetings!

Would like to introduce myself - I am a specialized hacker, and have succeeded in hacking your operating system.

At this moment, I have obtained a complete access to account of yours.

On top of that, I was also unnoticeably observing all your activities and spying on you for few past months.

It was possible because your computer was infected with malicious spyware, which infiltrated your computer while you were visiting a website containing adult videos.

Give me a few minutes to clarify how that affects you.

Because of Trojan viruses, I am now able to have an unrestricted access to your computer as well as any other devices owned by you.

In other words, I can see without any restrictions everything in your screen and even activate the camera together with microphone anytime I want, and you won't even know about that.

Moreover, I have complete access to confidential data of yours including emails, chat history etc.

You may be rightfully puzzled how come your antivirus is not able to detect the harmful software of mine.

I don't mind explaining that at all: my malicious software is driver-based; hence it refreshes its signatures every 4 hours, which makes it impossible for your antivirus to identify it.

I have come up with a video exposing the scenes of your passionate **** sessions on the left side, whereas on the right side it shows the dirty videos you were watching during that time. `.`

Trust me, it takes several mouse clicks to distribute this video to your entire email addresses list as well as messenger contacts on your PC or other devices.

Additionally, I can easily share all your emails as well as chat history to public too.

I honestly think you would certainly like to abstain from letting that happen.

There is a solution for you in this case - perform 750 USD transfer in Bitcoin equivalent to Bitcoin account of mine (it is really not difficult to do, and you can find online the step-by-step guide, if you have no idea about it).

My bitcoin account details are below as follows (Bitcoin wallet): [bitcoin address]

Once the aforementioned amount gets transferred to my account, I will straight away erase all those **** videos and vanish from your life completely.

Please, settle this payment within 50 hours (2 days).

A notification will be sent to me right after this email gets opened, which will trigger the countdown.

Believe me, I am very cautious, professional and never fail.

If I get to know about you sharing this message with anyone else, I will right away distribute your private videos to public.

Best of luck!
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Blog / Re: SCAM WARNING - Bitcoin Sextortion & Blackmail Scams
« Last post by kat on August 31, 2023, 09:37:19 AM »
YouPorn bitcoin sexploitation/blackmail email text;

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Uploaded content: Feedback required

Greetings!

Our AI-powered tools have detected that you are featured in sexually explicit content that was uploaded to our platform.

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.

While our tools are powerful, we also rely on human oversight to ensure that our platform remains safe and secure for everyone.
If you have approved the upload of this content, you do not need to take any further action. The video will be published to our library within the next seven days, and you will have an opportunity to review the content after the grace period has passed.

However, if you did not approve the upload of this content, we kindly ask that you follow the instructions below to take immediate action.

Our platform boasts an extensive network of websites and partners, which means that ensuring the security of our content is a top priority.

To achieve this, all uploaded content is digitally fingerprinted using both the MediaWise{R} service from Vobile{R} and Safeguard, our own proprietary digital fingerprinting software.

This helps to prevent unauthorized distribution of content on our platform.

For our premium users who upload content, we offer monetary incentives. However, in some cases, uploaded content may be put on hold.
If this happens, we can initiate a quick automated removal process, but we would require an incentive refund to do so.

The basic express removal, blocking, and protection against re-uploading of content on our network of 20 websites costs $199 USD.

As a digital company, we take great pride in our integrity and measures, which is why we offer additional options for protecting against unauthorized content uploads 24/7.

We have all our processes automated, including payment processing, for your convenience.

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 (300+) for one year, all for $699 USD.

If you require the best protection available, we recommend our
Plan B, which includes everything in Plan A plus digital protection by MediaWise{R} and Safeguard based on facial recognition data for three years. This ensures that any content with your biometrics will be blocked, and it costs $1399 USD.

Our system takes care of your request automatically and swiftly, so there's no need to contact us.

The payment process is automated through a Bitcoin gateway, and the digital number you receive below is unique to your case and doesn't require any extra confirmation.

[bitcoin address]

To transfer the amount corresponding to your chosen option, copy and paste this identifier into your preferred cryptocurrency wallet.

You can review the content uploaded after the seven-day grace period, either by checking our Youporn.com library or by contacting the member who uploaded the content.

We encourage users who feature in content and wish to prevent its upload to our platform to consider proactively digitally fingerprinting it.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.


Another way to confirm these are blackmail scams is the number of message that might be received, scammers are opportunistically greedy when it comes to scams, if one finds a target, they'll all jump in on the game, they simply cannot help themselves spam the recipient/target with demands.
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Blog / Re: SCAM WARNING - Bitcoin Sextortion & Blackmail Scams
« Last post by kat on August 27, 2023, 02:27:14 PM »
Another example of a sexploitation scam email;

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Hi, today there are sadly some bad news for you.

Your device was infected with my private malware, your browser wasn't updated / patched, in such case it's enough to just visit some website where my iframe is placed to get automatically infected, if you want to find out more, Google: Drive-by exploit.

My malware gave me full access to all your accounts, full control over your device and it also was possible to spy on you over your cam.

If you think this is some bad joke, no, I know your password: 123456a

I collected all your private data and I RECORDED YOU (through your cam) SATISFYING YOURSELF!

After that I removed my malware to not leave any traces and this email was sent from some hacked server.

I can publish the video of you and all your private data on the whole web, social networks, over email and send everything to all your contacts.

But you can stop me and only I can help you out in this situation.

The only way to stop me, is to pay exactly $950 in Bitcoin (BTC).

It's a very good offer, compared to all that horrible **** that will happen if I publish everything.

You can easily buy Bitcoin (BTC) here: paxful.com , coingate.com , coinbase.com , or check for Bitcoin (BTC) ATM near you, or Google for other exchanger.

You can send the Bitcoin (BTC) directly to my wallet, or install the free software: Atomicwallet, or: Exodus wallet, then receive and send to mine.

My Bitcoin (BTC) wallet is: [bitcoin address]

Yes, that's how the wallet / address looks like, copy and paste it, it's (cAsE-sEnSEtiVE).

I give you 2 days time to pay.

After receiving the payment, I will remove everything and you can life your live in peace like before, don't worry, I keep my promise.

Next time make sure that your device got the newsest security updates.

ClientMailID: 1748459
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News / Collision Meshes for Game Assets (Godot, Unity, Unreal...)
« Last post by kat on August 25, 2023, 10:11:18 AM »

"Collision Meshes for Game Assets (Godot, Unity, Unreal...)" https://www.katsbits.com/codex/collision-meshes/ using Blender to figure out the basics of collision meshes for game assets.
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News / UV Transfer (Data Transfer Modifier) in Blender
« Last post by kat on August 25, 2023, 10:07:51 AM »

"UV Transfer (Data Transfer Modifier)" https://www.katsbits.com/codex/data-transfer/ taking a look at using Data Transfer (modifier) to copy UVs between meshes.
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Blog / Re: SCAM WARNING - eBusiness Number Registry (European Business Registry)
« Last post by kat on August 18, 2023, 02:39:10 PM »
Q: How can you tell if a scam is a scam?
A: By the number of times they change their contact details, their email and website URL.

EBR Register
register@localnetld.com
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Blog / SCAM WARNING - YOUPORN Bitcoin Sextortion & Blackmail Scams
« Last post by kat on August 18, 2023, 10:59:26 AM »
In pursuit of ever more effective ways to scam people of their money through bitcoin, sexploitation and blackmail scams, enter the unsolicited YOUPORN email that claims to draw the recipients attention to the upload of "sexually explicit content" 'someone' posted to YouPorn, a platform that obviously exists for exactly that.

The scam takes advantage of adult platforms like YouPorn having liability policies concerning 'revenge' materials and other 'unauthorised' content being uploaded to their sites without the participants/copyright holders permissions, that require uploaders confirm, or be contacted to confirm, the legitimacy of an upload.

For the scam to work it obviously relies of the fact the reader will jump to a conclusion without reading too deeply and/or realising the sexploitation that's at work; "Who could have recorded a video of me doing 'X'" and/or "who could have uploaded a video of me doing 'X'", and then act impulsively to seemingly fix the problem by sending in bitcoin to the address listed, never to be returned or refunded (the curse of bitcoin and other digital currencies).

How to determine fake YouPorn sexploitation/blackmail emails;
- Any (pink) highlighted links will be 'null' ('https://' only).
- Emails may not be correct ("This email was sent to [incorrect address]...") - check message recipient and email footer.
- Solicitation of money to remove unauthorised content (illegal for service to do this).

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FAQ on games, gaming & IT / Can't Sign In to SoundCloud App (Not Responding)
« Last post by kat on August 15, 2023, 09:11:26 AM »
Problem
SoundCloud app on Android device opens (and can be closed/forced stopped) but does not respond to any User input when attempting to sign in. Action described here "I'm having trouble signing in through my Android device" do not work. So;

  • Tapping 'create account' or 'sign in' results in no activity (app does recognise if User is online/offline however).
  • Uninstalling and reinstalling the SoundCloud app does not solve the problem (uninstall/reinstall can be done without issue).
  • Clearing app cache in Settings > Apps > SoundCloud > Storage > Clear Cache similarly does not fix the problem.

Solution
A possible solution to SoundCloud app being unresponsive is to first log into an appropriate SoundCloud account using a web browser, Chrome, Brave, Edge etc., on the same device as the SoundCloud app and then (re)opening the SoundCloud app. Upon doing this the app may 'find' that account and attempt to automatically login with the credentials used during the web browser session, showing the 'Home' page as confirmation. Or alternatively the 'sign in' prompt may then become functional.
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Blackberry Hub gmail error

Problem
When using Blackberry Hub to manage Gmail emails the following error may occur when setting up an account;

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Access blocked: authorisation error.

You can't sign in from this screen because this app doesn't comply with Google's secure browsers policy. If this app has a website, you can open a web browser and try signing in from there.

The error occurs intermittently, and depending on the device used, age not necessarily being a factor.

Solution
Instead of using the 'auto-setup' feature provided by Blackberry Hub;
  • Step #1: add the email address to be accessed in the initial Account setup screen and tap the Manual Setup prompt.
  • Step #2: set the Account type in the following screen; POP3, IMAP or Microsoft Exchange Activesync.
  • Step #3: for IMAP, in the 'setup' page that appears after tapping the IMAP prompt, add/edit the Incoming server settings to correspond to Googles defaults for Gmail as outlined here - "Gmail Email Settings: POP3, IMAP, and SMTP Servers". Crucially set the Security type to SSL/TLS (Accept all certificates).
  • Step #4: in Outgoing server settings set the Security type to SSL/TLS (Accept all certificates), or optionally to STARTTLS (Accept all certificates). Disable (clear the checkbox for) Require signin.
  • Step #5: set the Account options and press Next to complete setup.
If the account is still blocked make sure 'IMAP' is enabled in Gmail, and/or try swapping the Security type options between SSL/TLS and STARTTLS (with or without 'accept all certificates') for both incoming and outgoing mail.
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Blog / Boycotting AI
« Last post by kat on August 12, 2023, 03:37:22 PM »
[image courtesy Genesis project]

Boycotting AI

Let's be totally frank about the AI Wars of 2023; what can artists, creators, authors actually do about it? No, really. What?

How many would need to decline use of Google, Microsoft, Amazon et al products and services that backbone the development and deployment of AI?

How much would need to be surrendered to dent their trillion-dollar bottom lines enough for them to course-correct, stop or reign in their pursuit of everything AI? And how long would that take?

In the mean-time, will 'independent' AI developers, researchers and content creators stop out of conscience? For the good of mankind? Or will they carry on, saturating the market with cheap, readily consumed content, that will be less derivative as time passes.

After all progress is good.

More pointedly, why would the AI gods want to surrender control over the engineered future they have in stall for humanity (THX1138, Logan's Run, et al)? AI as an 'everything app', service or tool.

For artists, creators, authors and the likes, what is an effective strategy to counter this reality?

Copyright?

Consumers don't care about "copyright" - if its available, it is consumed (it must be okay otherwise it wouldn't be available).

Consumers will avidly consume the 'personalised' entertainment experiences they are going to be told AI can dynamically generate for them;

Promo: "Customise your cinematic experience for just $9.99 a month"
Service: "Please enter your text prompts"
Consumer: "Willow fighting the ancient unicorn-demon terrors, Bella and Tom Cruise faithfully by his side".
Service: "Please wait a moment while we render your selection".

Again, what can artists, creators, authors, do to slow, never mind stop, this tide?

Who are they to stand in the way of highly individualised content consumption?

By the time any corrective legislation goes live, China, India and other jurisdictions that don't fully comply with International Copyright will engage the warp drives to 11 and Spinal Conquistadors will rule the tomato infested wheat pool.