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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By using a script to create an email, it is very easy to send a scam email
that arrives with the From: and To: both having the same (in this case your) email address.
Often there is an extortion attempt involving payment in Bitcoin or similar.
Usually the scammer has sent thousands of similar emails in the hopes of catching folks off guard.
The thing that got me the most was them putting my actual log in credentials into the email meaning they had actually, at least, got my details to log into my email account. Just wanted to make sure they didn't have some lingering door into my email.