Hello,
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 06:57:03PM +0000, Aled Morris wrote:
> Has anyone else had this recently? accompanied with a massive and
> sustained DDoS? and can you recommend a law enforcement agency who will
> take it seriously? (unlike local plod)
I had one of these last year for about £6k in bitcoin.
Have you actually been attacked? Although some of these have been
genuine threats most of them are empty. Mine stated a date that the
attack would start on, so I did some basic preparation in case it
actually happened, but it didn't.
ActionFraud were not interested since it was for less than £10k.
Reported it to the police just to get a crime number just in case,
but it must have been a slow day in Hounslow because they sent a
copper around within 20 minutes to ask me all about it in quite a
lot of detail and then ultimately say, "this is beyond us, just
leave it with ActionFraud" as expected.
That bitcoin address doesn't seem to have received any payments yet,
but of course if they are serious and not idiots they will have
given you a unique one. Hopefully you won't end up paying (hey, I've
heard of techies being overruled by management on this sort of
thing) but if you are forced to then maybe ask for a new payment
address as now all of uknof can tell whether you paid. :)
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/14XUpNzEPYWVhsXmG3A15wC5Ffirxuk7dB
Cheers,
Andy
