Bitcoin Ransoms Target Swiss Strip Club Patrons
In a report coming from the Switzerland TV channel, Tele Zueri says visitors of the region’s largest strip club are being blackmailed. It’s said that roughly 50-60 people who frequented the Globe in Schwerzenbach, near Zurich received extortion letters asking for $2,000 in Bitcoin. Hackers using pictures of patrons that visited the Swiss strip are being used against them. The nightclub’s manager Fritz Mueller spoke with NBC News about the situation saying the letters stated that they would “destroy” people’s lives. The Swiss TV channel Tele Zueri says the letters are asking for the....
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Visitors and patrons of Switzerland’s largest strip club have received blackmail letters from self-anointed ‘moralists’, demanding $2,000 in bitcoin (approx 4.72 BTC) or face ‘exposure’ with pictures of them visiting the strip club sent to their families. Bitcoin ransoms aren’t going away anytime soon. Patrons of a Swiss strip club near Zurich have been sent letters that threaten to expose them unless they pay a ransom of $2,000 in bitcoin. A copy of the letter was obtained by Swiss TV channel Tele Zueri and reported by NBC News. The extortionist threat from the letters read: We are....
Many individuals who went or usually attend one of the Switzerland's biggest strip clubs have gotten letters threatening to uncover their private lives unless they pay a Ransom of more than $2,000 in bitcoin. Many individuals who went or usually attend one of the Switzerland’s biggest strip clubs have gotten letters threatening to uncover their private lives unless they pay a ransom of more than $2,000 in bitcoin. Yesterday, Fritz Mueller, the Strip Club director told media, that somewhere around 50 and 60 benefactors of the Globe near the Swiss city of Zurich, in Schwerzenbach, were being....
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