Thames Valley Police Investigating Bitcoin Blackmail Letters
In this digital age, criminals are turning to snail mail to try and extort residents in Maidenhead, Wycombe and South Buckinghamshire in the United Kingdom. At least eleven residents have reported receiving blackmail letters, which threaten to expose the recipient as a pedophile if they do not send two bitcoins in a 72-hour period. The letter reads: DO NOT IGNORE THIS LETTER. You have been carefully selected for this letter and WE HAVE done our research. If you do not follow these instructions to the letter you and your family will be subjected to a campaign that will include writing to....
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