Getting threating emails from myself
My email account got hacked a few months back thanks to ntl's old rubbish password requirements not allowing me to have a strong password. The email went on about having easily hacked my account, eve...
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The miscreants were never there to be “booted out”, see Sextortion emails: how to protect yourself | Action Fraud.
Are these extortion emails received in your Inbox folder or Spam folder? If it is the:
- former and ⚙ > E-Mail > SPAM Settings > Move message to Spam folder is selected then forward these emails to report@phishing.gov.uk; read more about this reporting service here Report a phishing attempt | Action Fraud
- latter then they should be ignored as they are correctly being identified
FYI: should you wish to investigate where these email originated then consider using an Email Header Analyser service, for example Email Header Analyzer, RFC822 Parser - MxToolbox
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Thanks for the info. The emails are coming into my Spam but it would be nice to just block them, but I'm guessing that won't be possible.
I checked it against the Header Analyzer and it wasn't happy with it in the following areas:
- Problem Icon DMARC Compliant
- Problem Icon SPF Alignment
- Problem Icon SPF Authenticated
- Problem Icon DKIM Alignment
- Problem Icon DKIM Authenticated
Not sure what that means but I'm guessing it means that it is indeed a spoof email address and that makes me feel a lot better. As I said I didn't think they had proper access to it otherwise they'd be doing a lot more damage but always nice to be reassured of these things.