Hello and welcome to the Thursday, August 7th, 2025 edition of the Sands and then at Storms Centers.

Stormcast, my name is Johannes Ulrich, recording today from Jacksonville, Florida.

And this episode is brought you by the Sands.edu Graduate Certificate Program in Cybersecurity

Leadership.

Sextortion scams, well, they were a big thing like a few years ago and have died down a

little bit, but ever so often there's like a flare-up of them. Like the last couple weeks, I received

about a dozen or so emails with this cooperation offer subject in line. Jan now took a quick

look to figure out whether or not any of these scamps are still

successful.

He looked at a couple dozen different email addresses and the associated cryptocurrency

addresses that were attached to those emails.

And, well, sadly, a couple of them did get deposits in line with what they

asked for as part of these extortion scams.

This is really sort of a little bit an awareness issue, but then also remember that even though

the scam itself is old, not everybody may actually have received a copy.

And then depending on current circumstances, people may or may not be more vulnerable to this.

Just read on social media from someone who's actually very cyber aware and such,

and that they fell for like one of those UPS scams lately and

enter their credit card number trying to basically have their package redelivered and they

were actually just waiting for a package that all depends on the circumstances whether or not

someone falls for these these style of messages course, are also relatively easy to filter automatically,

which is probably why I haven't really seen many of them, because my spam filters and such

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