New Bitcoin Extortion Scheme Coming Via Email Dubbed 'Incident:[Random Characters]'

Spear phishing scams may be running rife during the 2019 tax season but so are the so-called extortion email campaigns – fake email messages aimed at scaring people into paying a required amount of money or face dire consequences. The most recent extortion scheme at play blackmails recipients into submitting 2 BTC (approx. $10,500) to a dedicated Bitcoin wallet or risk:

• Being exposed to tax authorities as tax evaders (based on nonexistent evidence);

• Incurring a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on their network;

• A WannaCry Ransomware infection.

Most of the cybercriminals running email extortion scams usually claim to have used the victim's webcam to gather sensitive data or track embarrassing browsing history. The hackers behind the current scam, however, are telling users that they have found tax evasion evidence after scouring all their computer and network data. The subject line of the email in question follows a particular pattern:

Incident: [random characters]
The mix of random characters in the brackets is different for every targeted PC users. However, the body of the email is uniform. Here is what it says:
“FORWARD THIS MAIL TO WHOEVER IS IMPORTANT IN YOUR COMPANY AND CAN MAKE DECISION!
We Hacked network.
We Caught Communications.
We Backuped DATA And DOCUMENTS.
We send this mail to you in YOUR account.
After analyzing documents. We found Illegal activity - HIDING TAXES.
That we want?
I want two (2) Bitcoin
To wallet Bitcoin.
1Dz7DbQmE7SNm3C5mb9syPcctgZECcCEbL
That we do if you don't pay bitcoin?
We send these Documents and roofs to your Tax Department.
And in this time Your network will be DDoS.
Read that in this link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
We are locking your operation system. Our friends, WannaCry, ready start and waiting command.
Read that in this link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
This is our guarantee, that you don't clean evidence and building a protection policy.
If you don't pay by in 7 days, attack will start.
Attack including.
1.DDOS
2.Locking operation system
3.Sending all documents in Tax Departament
Yours service going down permanently and price to stop will increase to Four (4) BTC, Price will go up one (1) BTC for every day of the attack.
This is not a joke.
Our attacks are extremely powerful - sometimes over 1 Tbps per second.
And we pass CloudFlare and others remote protections!
So, no cheap protection will help.
Prevent this problem all with just Two (2) BTC Pay to our wallet Bitcoin.
1Dz7DbQmE7SNm3C5mb9syPcctgZECcCEbL
AND YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN HEAR FROM US!
If you read, hear fake-experts and assure yourself that this is not true. Remember that they are not responsible and your life don't important him. Their business is to speak and make money. Your business to do and make money and stay freedom.

All mistakes in text we do specily.
Bitcoin is anonymous, nobody will ever know you cooperated.
Time started after open this mail. To track the reading of a message and the actions in it, I use the facebook pixel. Read that in this link
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/898185560232180?helpref=faq_content

The text above is littered with typo errors and grammatical discrepancies, which is the norm in scam attacks. Even if the email may look genuine, it most certainly isn't. Should you come across an email of such writing quality, be sure to do a web search either of the entire text (or a small portion thereof) to see what others think of it. In 99 out of 100 cases, such emails are scam and recipients should delete them outright.

The Incident:[random characters] scam is by far not the only extortion scheme security researchers have seen. That is why it is not necessarily the only threat that may reach targeted users. Over the last few months, cybercriminals have used different techniques to make targeted users pay dear money if they want to avoid the consequences of otherwise entirely forged allegations such as visiting inappropriate sites, committing crimes, etc.