New Scam???

[Richard Sinkler]

Thanks Wiz. Close this up.

[Wiz Feinberg]

This is known as a Hacker Extortion Scam. It is harmless unless you fall for it. They are fishing for hapless victims who will send bitcoins to avoid being outed for allegedly jerking off while watching porn on the PCs. Very few people actually fall for these stupid scams.

Some people get panicked when they first encounter the hacker scam because it claims to come from your own account and lists a password you may have used in the past. These passwords and email user names are stolen in data breaches. Most are a decade old.

Do change your passwords on a regular basis. Do not reuse the same password on multiple websites.

I have written a spam filter that detects and deletes these messages on sight, for people using MailWasher Pro. Contact me if you are a MailWasher user.