Tranquil City Shaken By Scammers Who Used Google Maps To Threathen To Expose Victim's Secret Life

Citizens across Canada's coast have been receiving disturbing letters demanding $1,900 in Bitcoin, threatening to expose their private photos and browser history to family and friends.

While Bitcoin sextortion scams are nothing new, fraudsters are now using Google Maps’ street view to convince victims that scammers have been standing outside their homes.

One of Ontario residents described how unnerving it felt that a person could potentially have your name, address, email, cell phone number, and potentially had surveillance over your residence

York Regional Police are issuing warnings to residents on the proliferation of scammers who are making use of public available information online that they find to appear legitimate. Information such as passwords, addresses, phone numbers, and social media profiles of a person is all information that could be easily found online, especially if the victim's information was leaked in a third-party data breach.

In an article on the York Regional police website, it shows a sample of the email victims has been receiving.

One of the lines reads "Take a moment to chill, breathe, and analyze it thoroughly. Cause we're about to discuss a deal between you and me, and I ain't playing games.....Yeah, Yeah, I've got footage of you doing filthy things in your rooms."

According to a spokesperson of the North Vancouver RCMP, all the reported bitcoin sextortion threats just turned out to be empty threats.

From all the victims that have reported their case, the suspect has never once provided any images of the victims, leading police officers to deduce that all this sextortion is just a hoax.

It also seems that all of the victims didn't buy into the stories of these letters. Protos have also dug into one of the bitcoin addresses sent to several sextortion victims, and discovered that it was an empty account with zero prior transactions.