Received an email threat at work

[Cwenthryth]

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.

Haha
Am loving the spammer blocking the spammed.

Enhanced 😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥

I got one from an alleged hacker threatening me with sending to all my email contacts a recording of myself watching porn on my computer (plus the actual porn would be visible in parallel in the vid). Unless I pay them with Bitcoin within 24 hours. It was ironic an so many levels. I just ignored it.

I had something very similar threatening to release a video of me watching (and presumably "enjoying") a porn site if I didn't pay them off. Having never been on one in my life it's easy to spot as a scam but I imagine it could worry a few people

I'd agree with PP - report to IT and worry about it no more.

Is that scam bit of spam in English?

Inform your IT people and ignore.

Way, way back in the very early days of the internet, I got my first bit of spam - it invited me to join some Eastern European young woman for exotic practices. It seemed to think I was a bloke, from what she was suggesting we might do.

I assumed (as I knew nothing about the existence of spam) one of my friends had spoofed me and accused a range of them until one of the savvier (American) ones let me in on the concept.

Having never been on one in my life it's easy to spot as a scam...

Same here. 1. I've never been on a porn site, let alone enjoyed myself to it in front of a computer (or anywhere else for that matter). Nobody else knows my password. 2. My computer camera has a sticker on it AND is broken which I realized when I tried to unsuccessfully reactivate it for some video chat. for good measure I put the sticker back on. 3. I couldn't make a Bitcoin transfer if my life depended on it. Let alone within 24 hours, which actually had already passed, because being on holiday I had not accessed my emails for two days.

In short, it was a blackmail effort that was so clearly doomed to fail that it was funny.

Just to say in case not everyone posting has read the email - mine wasn’t about porn, that would have been very obvious and easy to ignore! It basically says this person has been hired to do something ‘dark’ to me (‘nearly anything from entirely destroying peoples small business to human wounds’) unless I pay them not to. So quite threatening really.

Anyway, I emailed IT (and cc’d manager) and they are checking it out.

And I’m forgetting about it