Ransom Threat Email

[Larry75]

Attached is an email we received with an attempt to extort payment in Bitcoin. I know the email is bogus and no such video exist, but wanted to send to the experts to extract whatevery data you can from the email.

 

Good Hunting!

 

Larry

Scam Threat claims to bypassed virus and malware software.7z

[David H. Lipman]

This is purely a scam and they send those emails out en masse hoping one or two bite at the bait.  Unfortunately, there is nothing can be used from the email.

Just delete the email and then change your email password to a new Strong Password just to make sure.

Additionally, you can enter your email address(es) in the following site and it will check to see if that email address was part of a known breach.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Please reference:
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US FBI PSA - Extortionists Increasingly Using Recipients' Personal Information To Intimidate Victims
US FTC Consumer Information - How to avoid a Bitcoin blackmail scam
MyOnlinesecurity - attempted-blackmail-scam-watching-porn
BleepingComputer - Beware of Extortion Scams Stating They Have Video of You on Adult Sites
Malwarebytes' Blog - Sextortion emails: They’re probably not watching you
Malwarebytes Forum sample thread - Got strange threating email.
Malwarebytes Forum FYI thread - FYI: Email Ransom Scam still current