It is indeed. Bit difficult as there is no camera on our computer, I have never been on a porn site and 1200 dollars is more than my pocket money for the ear.
I'd complain if I were you @Palustris - your reputation only worth 1200 dollars ?? Joking aside, that is a rather scary email to find on your computer.
@Palustris the email you mention has been going round my workplace recently, mostly gets filtered out into the junk mailbox though. It seems to be widespread and the senders name is always the same as the recipients name i.e. if it is sent to joe bloggs@whatever mail. Com then the senders email address is exactly the same.
No, this is a fairly standard kind of spam message attempting to extort
money, that they probably send out millions of times per day. If you did
have a camera, I suppose it might be possible. Clearly no camera means
no possibility of being filmed or watched.
People sometimes just stick a bit of tape over the camera if they are
worried about such things.
As part of an
impersonation scam criminals might pretend you are owed a refund to get you to
give away your One Time Passcodes (OTPs) or to get you to approve payments in
the mobile app that you haven’t made, when what they’re really doing is trying
to steal your money.
Be suspicious of anyone getting in touch asking you
to approve a payment or give them your One Time Passcode, your bank and other
companies will never do this. End all contact with them straight away and call
the bank on a trusted number, like the number on the back of your bank card
How to report a fraud or scam
You should call 159
if you’re worried about a fraud or a scam, especially
if you’ve received a phone call from the bank asking you to make a
payment. (159 works in the same way as 101 for
the police or 111 for the NHS.)
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Joking aside, that is a rather scary email to find on your computer.
Refund scams
As part of an impersonation scam criminals might pretend you are owed a refund to get you to give away your One Time Passcodes (OTPs) or to get you to approve payments in the mobile app that you haven’t made, when what they’re really doing is trying to steal your money.
Be suspicious of anyone getting in touch asking you to approve a payment or give them your One Time Passcode, your bank and other companies will never do this. End all contact with them straight away and call the bank on a trusted number, like the number on the back of your bank card
How to report a fraud or scam
You should call 159 if you’re worried about a fraud or a scam, especially if you’ve received a phone call from the bank asking you to make a payment. (159 works in the same way as 101 for the police or 111 for the NHS.)