Users warned to be wary as scams flood email


PETALING JAYA: Some Malaysians have received threatening scam emails about alleged recorded videos of them watching pornography. The scammers would claim they had accessed the victim’s webcam and recorded them in compromising acts.But thanks to better awareness, some are wise enough to know that such email threats are usually fake.

A company executive known only as Lee, 38, said he received an email demanding that he pay a scammer a sum of money in bitcoins.“Otherwise, the scammer said he would upload a video of me watching porn through a streaming site.

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