Recently, we've learned that a lot of us kiwis have been targeted by a new type of email scam (on gmail/hotmail/yahoo etc).

The email starts with the following lines:
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"Hello!
I'm a hacker who cracked your email and device a few months ago. You entered a password on one of the sites you visited, and I intercepted it. This is your password from [YourEmailAddress] on moment of hack: xxxxxxxx
Of course you can will change it, or already changed it. But it doesn't matter, my malware updated it every time."
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The emailer claims to have "installed a Trojan on your device", which is actually false.

They go on to write:
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"So, when you had fun on piquant sites (you know what I mean!) I made screenshot with using my program from your camera of yours device. After that, I combined them to the content of the currently viewed site."
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More false claims, and (I must admit) I had to look up the meaning of "piquant"

Reading further, they finally get to the point... demanding payment by bitcoin.
Who the hell understands bitcoins anyway?

Then we get to their warning:
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"Do not be silly!
Police or friends won't help you for sure"
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Are we shaking in our boots yet? Yeah nah.

And lastly, they offer us some genius advice...
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"p.s. I can give you advice for the future. Do not enter your passwords on unsafe sites."
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Sage advice indeed and please note, NZP is very safe

So there you go, watch out for this one, don't be fooled by this scam, they don't have any information on you, and you should definitely not pay them anything! Just mark those emails as "spam" and move on.

Play safe, stay safe