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

[Harold Hartley]

The last one I got they tried to prove they got in to my account by typing my old password in the email to me, but I changed that password about 5 years ago so these scammer have old info.
But there are some that has not changed passwords and will panic and pay them. How stupid.

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, at 09:32, Matt Graham wrote:
> > 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?
> On 2019-04-24 06:35, Mike wrote:
> > I have ignored identical emails for years. Never a problem. Key is
> > not responding. Have not to date received a follow up or additional
> > communication from the initiator.
> 
> I have been getting these for a while. They're pretty inept if you 
> take a look at their headers and source. They claim to have hacked your 
> account, yet the mail doesn't come from your account, but from 
> compromised machines in .br or .ru with a forged From: . At least a few 
> claim to have a tracking pixel in them, and no tracking pixel is 
> attached. This is lazy scammers attempting to get easy money from dumb 
> people.
> 
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