Received an email threat at work

That has to be the most poorly written threatening letter I've ever seen!

It's easy to get spooked by these scams, but do a bit of critical thinking. Is there any evidence they know you or anything about you? Is there anything more than vague generalities in the email?

In this case, no and no.

Even if there is specific information, it may have come from a large-scale data breach and still not be specifically targeting you.

Definitely contact your IT department - info security will want to know.

It's quite obviously spam, but if receiving this has made you so worried that it is connected to an online comment you have made, may I suggest that you stop using your real name when making online comments. As pp suggest forward it to your IT department and forget about it.

I've had the porn/webcam ones several times. Its just a phishing expedition to see who's scared enough to pay.

spam spam spam! But report it to your IT, they should be able to filter this stuff out usually so this one has sneaked through...

Of course it's spam. It's somewhat paranoid to suggest it's a result of an obscure comment on a newspaper article.

I had the porn one the other day and as someone said above, I don’t watch porn and never have. It’s definitely spam.

My 14 yr old got one of the porn ones...specifically teen porn! Yes give it to IT they can block. Distressingly common.

I get loads of these on my work email, usually about videos of me watching porn, silly them as I never visit porn sites. Just delete it and try not to open in future.

I'm sorry this has happened to you - tell your IT department but I also agree its spam.

I had one of these to my work email a month back.. exactly word for word. Its a scam.. Delete and forget about it

Report to IT - this is classic phishing (and your organisation will have a vested interest in stopping it).

While I obviously can't divulge where or how exactly, I work in a role where - every once in a while - we may get genuine threats. One of the hallmarks of anything we'd actually refer to Corporate Security (as opposed to IT as a phishing attempt) is that genuine threats tend to be specific:

So "Hello, I randomly happen to have you on my target list for no discernible reason" (like the OP) will be interpreted as spam/phishing. Whereas I'd refer "Hello Taken, I'm a representative of the accountants' rebellion. Pull your firm's project to replace our jobs with AI driven bots - or else ..." to Corp. Sec.

In a nutshell, what you're looking at here is a Nigerian Prince of the late 2010s.

Hope this helps.

Spam.
Dodgy English.
Forward it to your IT dept.

It also looks like it went through google translate on its way to you so I doubt the writer is geographically close enough to make good on their weird purchase order

Having worked in a senior capacity in an organization where employees occasionally received threats, my thought is that you should let your IT and manager know. We had a threat policy/procedure to assess it and put any necessary safeguards in place. Since you received it at work your employer could end up responsible if anything should happen. That said, it looks like a spam/hoax to me. Sorry you received this.

It's spam, block the sender and delete it. I get these, saying my work email has been hacked etc, load of rubbish.

Any message that is genuinely for you, personally, will have your name on it. This doesn’t. It’s just been sent out to lots of random email addresses. Either delete and move on or let your IT people know.
Either way don’t worry about it.

So they’re after 7 million quid

Good luck with that

1 bitcoin is worth £6k. Gosh, this person is optimistic aren’t they? More likely to get the Eccles cakes I’d have thought

Let your work IT dept know, you probably have a spam/malicious email policy to follow.

Not pleasant to receive - but it is spam. They have no idea who you are or where you live.

It's spam and has NOTHING to do with any online comments you may have made. This is just a spammer who has worked out that not everyone can be frightened by mention of them having watched porn (because not everyone watches porn.)

The currency this person trades in seems to be Bitcoin. Seems unusual in itself to me, but all my knowledge of this stuff comes from tv so what do I know?

Anyway, it may have been sent to you at your work email but doesn't seem to have a name on it (unless you cleverly masked it). That is typical of these spammers, as it the bad English, which this has in spades. Def report to your IT people then forget it.

Yes, spam. I get similar, demanding payment in bitcoin - for weirdly small amounts - because they've been 'watching what I do on porn sites through my webcam' (I don't visit porn sites and don't have a webcam).

Just delete and ignore.