I received a Litecoin ransom note from my own email.

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I received a Litecoin ransom note from my own email.

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The content is to hack into my device, activate the front camera and record video. I need to remit Litecoin within 48 hours and not report to the police. I also found that people have tried to log in to my account in different countries in the past few months, but they all failed. I have reported this email as an online fraud phishing email. What else can I do next? Thank you.

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EmilyS726 278.4K 獨立顧問

You are welcome. Then this email is already flagged. Your account, or your computer is not compromised.

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Hello, thank you for your reply.

I saw this email in my spam folder.

I understand.

Thank you.

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Answer 3

Hello,

Are these emails found in your spam/junk folder?

Email spoofing happens when someone uses an outside mail server to send messages that pretend to come from your email address by forging the "From" field. They do not have access to your actual email account. To prevent and detect this, email providers like Microsoft use protections like SPF (to define which servers are allowed to send on your behalf), DKIM (to attach a digital signature to prove the email is real), and DMARC (to tell other servers what to do if a message fails these checks). If a spoofed email fails these checks, it will usually be flagged as spam or rejected.

So, if the email is already in spam/junk folder, you have nothing to worry about.