The Hillsborough Police Department has issued a scam alert warning residents of a particularly invasive email scam. Local reporting indicates that these emails are not your run-of-the-mill spam. They include personal details and actual photos of residents' homes. The scam message threatens to release "sensitive information" unless the recipient agrees to pay up quickly in Bitcoin, according to the Hillsborough Police Department.
The Hillsborough Police Department strongly advises residents not to open such an email, engage with the sender, reply, or even consider sending any payments if they encounter it.
The best action is to delete the email immediately and monitor it.
