Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge tells us what to do if you are the victim of an email scam.
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00:00Did you get an email including your address and a photo of your home with threats that
00:04the sender, quote, knows things about you, unquote, has compromising photos and demands
00:10money in exchange for secrecy?
00:13Don't send it.
00:14New scam alert.
00:15As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, the sender probably got the photo from Google
00:20Street View.
00:21You can check your address on Google to compare images.
00:24What can you do?
00:25First of all, don't respond.
00:28Hackers send mass emails hoping some will respond and then they can move on to level
00:32two.
00:33Also, don't send the ransom.
00:35Finally, you should change your password.
00:38If you really want peace of mind, you can cover your computer's camera if it helps
00:42you sleep easy at night, knowing that hackers have no way to take photos of you through
00:47your computer when you're unaware.