This has been happening for a little bit of time now. I receive an email from my own account and the message says I’ve been hacked. They also say they’ve made videos of me jerking off to weird porn and for a payment of several hundred in bitcoin they won’t release the video. I just erase the emails because I know its crap, but how do they make it seem to originate from my own account?
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Two options I can think of:
* **The most likely** is that it is simply an alias to their real email you are seeing. The way to verify the real email depends on the mail client, but generally hovering the email/right clicking to get extra details suffices.
* If not, your mail account may have been compromised, in which case you should change your password to your mail account and preferably your other online accounts, especially if you have similar passwords across websites. Running an AV scan prior to that can be a good idea in case you could suspect it to be the cause of a password leak.
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