“We are Ukrainian hackers and we hacked your site” is a scam email that tries to take advantage of people who wish to help Ukraine in the ongoing war with Russia. The email claims that hackers were able to hack your website and asks for a “donation” of 0.05 BTC (currently around $1000). Otherwise, the “hackers” threaten to display a huge banner on the site asking for donations. It’s not recommended to transfer any money to the provided wallet addresses because the email is a scam. If you wish to donate money to Ukraine, choose known organizations.
This particular scam email claims that “hackers” were able to hack your website and they will display banners on it if you do not agree to make a donation to support Ukraine. However, your money would certainly not go to Ukraine even if you believed this email to be real and made the requested donation. Instead, it would go to scammers who like to take advantage of serious/tragic situations in order to make easy money.
“If you do not make a donation, then a huge full-screen banner will appear on your site asking all visitors to your site to help Ukraine,” is what this email claims. If you refuse to make a donation, the “hacker” will supposedly conceal your website by displaying a large banner asking visitors to make a donation instead. According to the email, if you remove the banner, they will display it again. Since your site has not been hacked and this is merely a scam email, you can pay no attention to it.
These types of email scams are fairly typical, especially during large-scale incidents and disasters. For example, when the COVID-19 pandemic began (and even two years later), scammers started spam campaigns that ask for donations to support health services and those most affected by the pandemic. Those scams were somewhat successful because of the unexpected situation and widespread panic. Covid-19-themed scam emails have since become less common.
This is certainly not the first and not the last scam email that tries to take advantage of the ongoing war in Ukraine. People are contacted by scammers in various ways and are asked to make donations. Scammers also use disturbing images and upsetting stories to pressure people into making donations.
We have also encountered “Army of Ukraine need your support” scam emails that asked users to make donations to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. That particular email was more realistic because it contained a link to the actual website for Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Furthermore, while the Bitcoin/Ethereum wallet addresses provided in the email did not belong to Ukraine’s government or any of its entities, Ukraine started accepting donations in cryptocurrencies around the time these scams started going around. This could have helped scammers make more money.
Subject: HELP UKRAINE – stop the war!
Army of Ukraine need your support ! Please help us defend our freedom and independence!
Thank you for everyone !
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Here is original source : hxxps://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi
PLEASE, DO NOT IGNORE THIS MESSAGE !Stand with the people of Ukraine.
Now accepting cryptocurrency donations. Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT.BTC – bc1qv729ckc4m256vzjsmvwg4gcerdkh64zr7hp8f8
ETH and USDT (ERC-20) – 0x0dcf682C16E03A4c593e0aA4330129589a2645C3
We very sorry for a such spam ! But people of Ukraine need your support !
Thank you for everyone !
Here is original source : hxxps://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi
Please, do not blacklist this domain !
In May 2022, the FBI even issued a warning to be careful when making donations to help Ukraine because a lot of scammers are contacting people via email/phone pretending to be from charities and humanitarian organizations.
It’s highly recommended to ignore all emails and other communications that ask for donations. Instead, if you wish to make a donation to help Ukraine in the war or with humanitarian aid, you should make donations via legitimate organizations and charities. This way, you can be sure that your money will reach the intended target.
Subject: *********: Your website ********* was hacked by Ukrainian hackers.
Hello. We are Ukrainian hackers and we hacked your site *********
What do we want? We want you to make a donation in support of Ukraine to this Bitcoin (BTC) wallet by March 25 in the amount of 0.05 BTC, this is a small amount: bc1q79tnp5ag2wzxyfrm8jvxtrnvqydr2ccxwwh7sf
If you do not make a donation, then a huge full-screen banner will appear on your site asking all visitors to your site to help Ukraine (your site will not be visible, only our banner), if you remove it, we will hang it again, if you fix the vulnerability, then we find a new one and hang the banner again.
As a last resort, we will have the domain name registrar block your domain permanently.
“We are Ukrainian hackers and we hacked your site email” scam removal
You can pay no attention to these kinds of emails when there is no credible evidence that the claims in the email are true. It’s safe to just delete “We are Ukrainian hackers and we hacked your site” email scam from your inbox. And if you wish to make a donation to help Ukraine, you should look into legitimate organizations and charities.
In some cases, these kinds of scam emails may contain links or attachments. Links would usually lead to phishing sites, while attachments would contain malware. It’s never a good idea to open unsolicited email attachments without double-checking them first because you risk infecting your computer with serious malware. You should always scan both links and email attachments with VirusTotal or your anti-malware program.
The reason you receive scam emails is likely because your email address has been leaked by some service you used to register with it. You can check on haveibeenpwned. Unfortunately, email addresses get leaked all the time, and once they’re out there, you can’t really do anything. But if your email address is included in some data breach, you can at least be on your guard and be careful with unsolicited emails, especially ones that have links or file attachments.
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