'Your Device Was Not Properly Secured' Email Scam

The 'Your Device Was Not Properly Secured' email scam is a new fraudulent email message that hundreds of users worldwide have received since May 2020. The email usually contains one of the nicknames that the victim uses – a simple trick to make the threat appear more believable. The authors of the unsafe message claim to have gained access to the victim's computer via a Windows Trojan, and they state that they have collected a large amount of data from the victim. They provide a link that is supposed to take the user to their archives with collected data, but the website hosting the content appears to be offline. Finally, the attacker threatens to leak the files online unless the victim agrees to pay $525 via Bitcoin to a wallet address mentioned in the email.

It is possible that the authors of the 'Your Device Was Not Properly Secured' email scam may be using an offline website on purpose to trick users into thinking that an archive with stolen data exists, but they cannot access it for some reason. You can rest assured that the criminals behind the 'Your Device Was Not Properly Secured' email scam have not stolen any of your files – their message is nothing more than a bold bluff that may trick some users into agreeing to pay the ransom fee.

If you ever receive an email that asks you to pay money by threatening you to:

• Leak your data online.
• Send a pornographic video/photo of you to friends, family and co-workers.
• Sell your accounts to other hackers.
• Publish your private conversations online.

You should know that such emails are atactic, and you should never agree to pay. The best way to proceed when you receive a message of this type is to ignore and report the sender.