US residents massively receive threats about bombs: police told how to respond

NYPD monitors numerous mining threats that have been reported to residents and organizations in the city since December 13. At the same time, law enforcement officers stressed that the threats are fake and do not carry real danger.

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The NYPD reported that the threats were emailed to many people and organizations (their names and locations were not disclosed) and are similar to messages that were also received by residents of other regions of the United States and several countries of the world, writes AMNY.

“Please be aware that emails are being circulated in the city threatening to bomb and asking for payment in Bitcoin. These letters were sent to many places, searches were carried out by the police and no devices were found,” the police said.

Militiamen assume that the threats were designed either to get money or to cause panic. In letters, users are offered to pay the amount in bitcoins so that the explosive device allegedly installed in their home or office does not undermine.

“We will respond to every call regarding these emails and conduct searches, but we wanted to share that the credibility of these threats is virtually zero,” the NYPD said in a statement.

The sender of the letters has not yet been established. Threats were sent to the mail of hundreds of enterprises, government agencies and schools in the United States and Canada. In addition to New York, threats were also reported by residents of Washington, Detroit, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Denver, Ottawa, and Calgary.

According to officials, a few hours after the threats appeared in North America, residents of New Zealand and Australia received similar e-mails.

Police at the University of Wisconsin Madison tweeted one of the letters on Twitter: “Good afternoon. In the building where your company is located, an explosive device (lead azide) is placed. It was compiled based on my instructions. It is compact and very carefully hidden. It cannot simply damage the structure of the building, but if it explodes, you will get many wounded. ”

Local investigators found that one of the threatening emails addressed to the school in St. Louis was sent from a computer with an IP address in Moscow.

At the same time, officials warned that such an IP address does not prove that the letter was sent from Russia, because the sender could purposefully change the IP address to hide his true location.

The FBI is investigating this digital attack.

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