i received a mail from my own account saying it was violated. A treathen in it asking for money.I deleted it, scan with malware, antivirus.wt else needed?
Yesterday i received a mail from my own account saying it was violated,asking for money threatening,if i won't ,to share my private pictures (i never did by the way) with all my contacts.i deleted it,did a scan with malware and antivirus,put a password but i'm afraid it is not enough.What else should i do? thannks
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What you got was likely a variant of the many blackmail email scams like the ones listed at https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/8gsjba/the_blackmail_email_scam/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/9srjen/the_blackmail_email_scam_part_2/###
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If you Google it you will see if it a scam.
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What you got was likely a variant of the many blackmail email scams like the ones listed at https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/8gsjba/the_blackmail_email_scam/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/9srjen/the_blackmail_email_scam_part_2/###
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Yes it was. So i don't need to do anything else but ignoring and cancelling? Thank you so much for ur help