I'm being blackmailed

[willthishappen]

NCed for this.
I've just received one of those horrible emails asking for money saying if I don't pay up a video of me watching porn will be released to 12 of my contacts. They knew my password which is in the email.

Obviously I'm not going to pay up. I have very rarely watched porn but I have done, the last time being a couple of months ago.
Am I right to think that really they don't have a video of me or could they?

They dont have a video of you, it's a scam.
Delete the email, change all your passwords, run a virus scan & relax.

Yup. Google it. It's a scam

It’s a scam. Forget it

I had exactly the same email. I just deleted it and changed my password. It said that it had filmed me looking at dodgy stuff on my computer, so I knew it was bullshit because I only use my laptop for work.

I got one of those too a few months back. I haven't watched porn. How could they have a video of you watching it anyway? Just ignore this.

It's worrying that they know your password, though, so you'd better change it and make sure everything else is secure.

What have you been watching though OP?

Scam

These emails are rife at the moment. Ignore it.

Definitely a scam

It's a total scam. Delete & change your passwords.

As everyone else has said it's a scam there is a small risk someone could hack your webcam so cover it over when you watch porn

Total bullshit

Thank you everyone. I am currently changing my password on everything.
They said they hacked my camera!

It's a scam. I've had 4 of those emails in the last week. I've never watched porn. Just delete.

DH had a couple of those emails in last week or so.

They've obviously got a hold of email/ password from somewhere. Just change it of used elsewhere.

But I wouldn't worry too much even though it is scary when you get the email.

I've got 7 in my spam filter right now. The first couple I stripped out the header and sent them a gif from a splatter site. After that, I count them once a day and scrub the cache. Tiresome twats.

Make sure you change all your accounts that use the same password, and don't use the same passwords!

It's scam, been getting them for months.

It's a scam. But stop watching porn!

I hesitate to Google this, what's a "splatter" site?

But if they had hacked your camera surely they'd only be able to see you and not what you were watching? (Genuine question because I am an old duffer)

Total scam
But I feel it makes you feel better stick some blutack over the camera

Lots of people got these. haven't you heard/ It's old chapeau.

They have a previously used password because over the last few years a few sites were hacked, ones like Linked In, Carphone Warehouse etc. The emails are scams, they are called 'sextortion emails'. Ignore them and change your passwords.

Wasn't there a thread suggesting this as linked to more hacking at Mumsnet?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/3880832-Does-MNHQ-Check-Our-Inboxes

I received email like that but for 100% its a scam, and I know for sure as I dont watch porn and my laptop doesnt have a camera so I wonder what they hacked lol

but change your passwords