The Wyoming crime team that fights child sexual exploitation and the circulation of photos and videos associated with it is warning people not to open suspicious mail from Canada.

It’s an extortion scheme, according to a Tuesday joint news release from the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and the Natrona County Sheriff’s Office.

The mailers have a Canada postage stamp.

Their wording “claims you clicked a suspicious internet link that provided the hackers access” and that illegal images were then planted “on your devices,” says the statement.

The messaging “uses threats of police involvement to scare you” and demands money within 36 hours, alongside a URL and a QR code for Bitcoin, Coinbase, or Cash App.

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