@LTU_btc, have you perhaps checked the BTC address that was sent to you to pay the ransom for your alleged sins? It's already an old trick, but I'm really interested to see if scammers get away with it these days, even though I know that sometimes they send payments to themselves in order to convince potential victims that others are also paying.
You really have a point here, but at the same time I don't also think their is any point in doing that, since the hacker/scammer can easily can easily just send fund to its own wallet like you said to make convince it's victims that other actually pay. At the same time they can actually generate single address for each of their victims in other to protect their privacy.