Offensive email

[Br0adband101]

I have received a very offensive and threatening message which "appears" to have come from my email account but has not.  Has anyone else experienced this?

[用心棒]

This form of threatening communication is a common tactic used by miscreants to extort victims. To improve the likelihood of success the miscreant will deploy a  psychological ruse by including information that they have obtained elsewhere to imply truth and/or risk from other things mentioned in the communication. For example, the miscreant may quote an old or current password that the victims uses or used to use.

For further advice see Report a phishing attempt | Action Fraud

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[Tony_]

Hi

I had one a week or so ago... I couldn't add the sender to my blocklist as they had somehow used an alias or some bounce around so that the sender appeared to come from me... sounds like similar to your one.

Think it gave me 48 hours or something to respond with a thousand million bitcoins or whatever the scum use.

I just deleted it.

Tony_

[japitts]

Ditto both of the above responses, I've lost count of the number of these I've received in recent weeks especially.

Delete immediately and move on.