I just got a ransomware email--what to do?

Harold Hartley wheelie207 at ownmail.net
Wed Apr 24 06:19:37 MST 2019


Just ignore it. I get those too. It’s because the old hack of people’s info are now for sale on the dark web and it’s old info unless you didn’t change any passwords since these hack were announced.

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, at 06:04, Stephen Elliott wrote:
> I just received an email claiming a hack of my system and threat to send a porn vid to all my contacts if I don’t pay $800 in bitcoin. How can I know if this is a real threat and what can I do about it?
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