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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They forge the From header even though the actual from address is different. Fortunately it’s easy to detect and block mail like this.
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