Bitcoin Extortion: Man Told To Pay Or His 'Secret' Gets Revealed

BLOOMFIELD TWP., MI – A pair of local residents have received letters from anonymous sources, threatening if they don't pay $2,00o in Bitcoin, their secrets kept from their wives will be revealed. Police say the letters are a scam and not to respond – or pay.

One homeowner along Waddington Road told police that he received the letter on Nov. 20. The letter reads, "I know about the secret you are keeping from your wife. More importantly, I have evidence of what you have been hiding ... you know what I'm talking about."

The letter does not give specific details of what the "secret" might be. The letter's recipient was instructed that if he did nothing, the "evidence" would be taken to the man's wife, and copies of it would be sent to his friends and family.

The letter's author says if the man pays a $2,000 "confidentiality" fee, "your secret remains your secret."

Bloomfield Township police say another resident, along Oakland Avenue, also received the same letter. Officers have discovered that the letter, with a Nashville, Tennessee, postmark also has been sent to people in other communities across the nation.

Police say to disregard the letter.

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