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Email Scam Exposed: $ 20K Demand in Bitcoins for a Bomb Threat

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Bomb in your building! Threatened? Well don’t be!  A wave of hoax bomb threats swept the United States on Thursday that rendered people in turmoil. Universities and offices all across the country witnessed the same threat that appeared in email inboxes. The message was delivered with the subject lines similar to: No Need to be Heroic Rescue service will complicate the situation My device is inside your building You are responsible for people. These emails proceeded to state that the sender has hired a recruited mercenary to place an explosive device inside the recipient’s building. It further threatened the victim to pay  $20,000  by the end of the day in-difficult-to-trace cybercurrency i.e. bitcoin to get the bomb deactivated or else it would be detonated. This extortion email campaign is known to have originated from Russia & is suspected to have been delivered from  194.58.x.x IP range and some from 193.124.x.x . Apart from the U.S.A; the em...