{"id":6094,"date":"2025-08-13T05:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/the-incriminating-video-scam-html\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T05:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:03:26","slug":"the-incriminating-video-scam-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/the-incriminating-video-scam-html\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cIncriminating Video\u201d Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>The \u201cIncriminating Video\u201d Scam<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A few years ago, scammers invented a new phishing email. They would claim to have hacked your computer, turned your webcam on, and videoed you watching porn or having sex. BuzzFeed has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/poojashah1\/new-email-scam-house-address-sc\">article<\/a> talking about a \u201cshockingly realistic\u201d variant, which includes photos of you and your house\u2014more specific information.<\/p>\n<p>The article contains \u201csteps you can take to figure out if it\u2019s a scam,\u201d but omits the first and most fundamental piece of advice: If the hacker had incriminating video about you, they would show you a clip. Just a taste, not the worst bits so you had to worry about how bad it could be, but something. If the hacker doesn\u2019t show you any video, they don\u2019t have any video. Everything else is window dressing.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when this scam was first invented. I calmed several people who were legitimately worried with that one fact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/08\/the-incriminating-video-scam.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cIncriminating Video\u201d Scam A few years ago, scammers invented a new phishing email. They would claim to have hacked your computer, turned your webcam on, and videoed you watching porn or having sex. BuzzFeed has an article talking about a \u201cshockingly realistic\u201d variant, which includes photos of you and your house\u2014more specific information. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,124,465,388,1,692],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-6094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-phishing","category-scams","category-social-engineering","category-uncategorized","category-video","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}