Late last year, the FBI's Phoenix office warned of an increase in people
reporting email threats, demanding that they pay a sum in virtual currency or prepaid cards — or else.
Not exact matches
In its 2016 Internet Security
Threat Report, Symantec estimates there were a staggering 190 billion
emails in circulation during 2015.
But look at what she and her supporters had to go through:
threats; intimidation; ridicule; loss of friends; debt; years or months of sleeplessness, stress and anxiety; self - doubt; fear; demands for proof of medical records, police
reports,
emails, and court documents; then finally being believed not because you are a person but only because you produce authoritative authentication.
Meanwhile, House Democrats have turned Obama impeachment
threats into a small - donor
email fundraising cash machine,
reports Darren Samuelsohn for Politico.
A Conservative MP accused of doctoring a constituent's
email to add a death
threat has been
reported to the parliamentary commissioner for standards.
«Australia's leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting
email campaign that has resulted in police investigations of death
threats,» the Canberra Times
reports.
As
reported in The Guardian, the
emails «are laced with menacing language, expletives and contain personal
threats of violence.»
According to multiple
reports, victims began aware of the security
threat when they received
emails that the password for their Reddit accounts had been changed.
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grahamcluley.com - Hundreds of British schools and colleges
reported receiving bomb
threats via
email, and sent pupils home.