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Received an email threat at work

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Cwenthryth · 10/06/2019 09:06

So yesterday I wrote a comment on Julie Bindel’s piece in the Sunday Times supportive of her. I used my own name.

This morning, I have come to work and opened my work email, to find this email.

It’s probably spam. I don’t think my work email is that easily available, you could google and find my department but that wouldn’t come directly to my personal email.

I hope it’s just spam, there’s nothing direct in it, it doesn’t mention my name or any specific reason.

But should I take action or just delete & block? I thought I’d ask on here in case anyone else has been similarly targeted.

Received an email threat at work
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FermatsTheorem · 10/06/2019 09:19

Hopefully spam, but forward to your work's IT department. (We have procedures for doing this sort of thing at my work place - if yours is big enough, it should have similar).

So sorry, this must have been such an upsetting start to your morning.

It's such a difficult one isn't it? I too have been cautiously gender critical under newspaper articles in my own name (largely because should anyone ever try to doxx me I want to be able to say "sod off, it's already in the public domain that I have these political views, and freedom of belief is legally protected in our country".) But I hadn't thought of this sort of blackmail attempt. Hopefully though, it is just spam (the complete lack of any specific details about you or what you're supposed to have done would strongly suggest that it's just spam).

littlbrowndog · 10/06/2019 09:15

Spam but let your it team know

I get these emails as well.

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Cwenthryth · 10/06/2019 09:13

Bitcoin, was my interpretation, but I don’t know much about that kind of thing!

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CaledonianSleeper · 10/06/2019 09:12

You need to let your IT Security team know.

BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 10/06/2019 09:10

Looks like spam to me. They want 1200 what? Eccles cakes? (Actually so do I, yum)

Can you send it to your IT Dept to look at as it’s come to your work email? You probably should in fact as others in your company may have been targeted. That’s what I’d do, but I’d also assume it’s nothing

Flowers. It’s shit that we’re all so jumpy isn’t it?

orangeshoebox · 10/06/2019 09:09

work email? contact your IT department and report.

our it has a policy for those email. most of those get filtered out before they reach you but some slip through.

IAmRubbishAtDIY · 10/06/2019 09:07

It's spam. Just delete.