Bogus "account hacked" message

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.