Bogus "account hacked" message

[Guy Sotomayor Jr]

I’ve been getting those messages for a few months now and nothing bad has happened yet.  ;-)

TTFN - Guy

> On Jan 8, 2019, at 12:03 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> About two hours ago, I received an email to the address I only use for
> cctech/cctalk.
> 
> It claimed my email account had been hacked and threatened all sorts of
> dire consequences if I didn't deposit $1000 in bitcoins in some place within
> 48 hours.
> 
> I am 100% certain that the claims in the message are completely bogus and
> none of the threats will be carried out.
> 
> It is likely that email addresses belonging to other list members are also
> to be found wherever my email address was scraped from so I just wanted to
> warn other list members about this scam in case they receive similar emails.
> 
> (I received the scam email directly, not via the cctech listserver).
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Coghlan.