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Does this message sound very artificial, fake to anyone? I haven't seen many ransom messages, a few have been published, but this one and the way it's screensho

• kdtsh 6y ago
  Whether it sounds fake or not, there is next to zero chance it is fake. Imagine the consequences if it wasn’t.
  • agilob 6y ago
    Well, their stocks went down today, Elon Musk manipulated TSLA stocks too for personal gain, he faced consequences, but looks like it was worth it in the long run.
• phone8675309 6y ago
  That was my first thought - this seems like bullcrap to me.
• Bakary 6y ago
  I have seen a few other ransom messages from various other events, and they have exactly the specific brand of cringeworthy writing that is displayed here. It's the same sort of distinctive style you see on .nfo files from scene releases and on Anonymous-related statements. I'm not saying we can conclusively determine anything, just that the format of it appears quite plausible to me.
• meowface 6y ago
  As someone who's read a lot of ransomware ransom notes, it sounds very similar to all the ones I've read and looks likely to be legit. It's often exactly in this form, with a text or Word file named something like "read_me_unlock.txt" as it's named here, and text similar to this. They're trying to get the attention of whoever happens to see the mysterious file, and they often use that kind of extravagant tone with a lot of exclamation points. The goal is to extort as much money as possible and they think this is the best scare tactic to achieve it. Ransomers also may not necessarily be the smartest, oldest, or most educated people. I'd be extremely surprised if it was somehow fake, given the company posted it all themselves.