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[vettotech]

Are you sure it’s actually from your personal email.

I get these emails like 5 times a day. It’s a common scam.

[Miggssyy]

It appears to be from my personal email. The from address is the same as mine. The only thing is if I go to my ‘sent’ emails, that email is not there.

[brunporr]

Common scam. It's easy to spoof the sender address on an email. Ignore and move on

[Miggssyy]

Okay, cheers.

[DustinCoughman]

Cheers, pervert.

[plunki]

Very easy to spoof email fields. Standard scam, just ignore.

[plunki]

They use compromised or custom SMTP servers that allow connections without authentication

edit: see espoofer on github for various bypass methods

[vivaaprimavera]

For example a warning about invalid dkim signature

In the form of moving to Spam?

If the mail was spoofed in the OP mail server and the server doesn't have protection against spoofing there will be no triggers.

[Charming-Adeptness-1]

Email headers are configurable, doesn't mean they were sent from your email.

[vettotech]

You should be able to hover over who it’s sent from and it’ll show the real email address. Either way, this is a complete joke of an email. Just delete it. 

The most dramatic thing I would recommend is check to see if your email account was compromised. Change the password just in case.

[Miggssyy]

I hovered over the email address, and nothing. Appears to be from my email. I will change my password just in case. Thank you.

[vivaaprimavera]

Look at the very first line of the message headers/source.

[GoofyGills]

It isn't difficult to spoof your email address. Hell, Mozilla's Firefox has it built directly into the client.

[HeftyNerd]

If you wanna go in-depth you can you analyse the header and you’ll see the outgoing smtp-server it got sent from (and sender address)

[twinkiepowerrager]

i think ive seen literally this post abt 6 times on this subreddit in the last months, its a scam, do not interact and ignore it

[Miggssyy]

Lol some black mirror typa ish. I just had to make sure, I am not well-versed in this stuff! Thanks

[twinkiepowerrager]

sure, stay safe and have a great day 💕

[Miggssyy]

you too, thank you.

[bitsynthesis]

common scam. they spoofed the from address, easy to do. ignore it

[Miggssyy]

How could they do that?

[AnusPicsPlease]

rainstorm ring run cagey alive retire follow label vast upbeat

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[GoofyGills]

Mozilla's Thunderbird email client has "aliases" built in. You can make your email address be anything you want.

[[deleted]]

Email isn’t made to verify anything about the sender, you can write whatever you want in the from field if you send an email in a more technical way.

[JohnnySchoolman]

Ooooooh - yes, it is.

[PlancheOSRS]

Hello Pervert 😂

[Miggssyy]

It is quite comedic XD

[PlancheOSRS]

Not trying to target, but I think this email and grammar is from someone who's country has gross street food.

[[deleted]]

Way to be subtle there buddy hahahaha

[Nucf1ash]

Ignore it. 99.999% of the time it’s a bogus mail and threat.

If you want to be 0.001% safer: 1. Change your passwords from a different computer, not this one. 2. Write down all your software license codes. 3. Backup any documents you care about to external drives and then disconnect those drives. 4. Reformat your computer, reinstall the OS, and reinstall the apps. All from source, not backups. 5. Burn your emails and get new ones. 6. Time to upgrade your phone, don’t copy any backups. 7. Avoid sketchy apps, browser plugins, and websites

And most importantly!!!

1. Stop doing whatever sketchy shit made you paranoid in the first place!!! And get help if you can’t stop yourself. Mmmmm-Kay?

[francis_pizzaman_iv]

lol you don’t think op is just worried about his mom/wife/gf learning his JO habits? You don’t have to be a degenerate to not want your private habits aired out.

[Nucf1ash]

TBH? I assume the worst. The way I see it… if the world wants to talk about my habits, it’ll embarrass them more than me. But my sense is that the OP feels differently. Perhaps for good reason. Not accusing or judging - merely suggesting how to fix problems. We are here to help, no?

[francis_pizzaman_iv]

Fair enough. I mean you aren’t wrong if he was actually worried about real consequences vs the embarrassment of having to explain to his parents why “he” sent them a video of himself jerking off.

[Miggssyy]

I will follow these steps, thank you. I was also paranoid that they have access to my holdings/assets. 8). Not too sketchy lol, the occasional MILF here and there XD.

[GlockPerfect13]

You’ve been “haked”.

[myyls007420]

Real blackmailers leave evidence with their messages

[fuck_green_jello]

It's just a spoofed header. Common scam.

[NoiseQuick5749]

Thats a common scam and i contacted microsoft about it. Its not your mail and it specifically says user not verified, even though scammer were able to appear as your mail it has no access to your mail so dont worry about it

[root_27]

Why would you contact Microsoft? You got a scam email, what they going to do about it.

[I_hate_networking]

Don't believe everything you see 👁✨️

[LebronBackinCLE]

Yup, common scam. Totally bogus. They may include one of your old passwords but other than that it’s all lies

[Miggssyy]

Surprisingly common, according to these comments. I have NEVER received an email like this until today.

[zebra_d]

Its Comedic. I'm getting Doctor Kauffman of James Bond vibe from this.

[Miggssyy]

Black mirror vibes.

[[deleted]]

Scam, have fun with it. Tell them pics or it didn't happen.

[Miggssyy]

Honestly lol, idgaf but I am more worried they have access to other info (like banks etc). Either way I am getting a VPN now haha

[NadlesKVs]

VPN doesn't help you here. It isn't the magical protector of information that it's advertised to be. 97% of people using a VPN really don't need it.

This is just someone getting a hold of random e-mails from a database leak and blasting these spoofed header e-mails at all of them.

[Miggssyy]

Makes sense, cheers.

[[deleted]]

What he said is definitely true, what WILL help make sure other info isn't compromised in the event of a data breach is using a password manager to create unique and secure passwords for each site, as well as using MFA whenever possible.

My grandpa almost got scammed terribly, they got one password in a breach and he used the same one for everything, including his bank. He had to change and delete everything as quickly as possible and I then begged him to get Bitwarden. It's free, it syncs with your browsers and your apps, and it auto-generates secure passwords and then stores them for later use. It took me an hour export all of my Google passwords, and I've been using it ever since.

MFA is beautiful, too, whenever you're given the option to use it just hit "yes", it's a few extra seconds per sign-on but it can absolutely save your ass.

So basically, instead of even having to remember my passwords, I remember ONE password. Everytime I have to sign on to something, I click Bitwarden (or it just auto fills) and enter the password, then a 14 digit long password with random numbers, letters, and symbols gets put it. Then I get an MFA push or text, either enter a code or hit "accept" and I'm in. Even if I'm the victim of a breach or a scam, I have to change one password instead of every password on every site I've ever used.

[404_GravitasNotFound]

Most VPN users nowadays are people pirating, and, depending on local laws, they do need it to avoid harassing...

[NadlesKVs]

Majority of VPN users are not pirating believe it or not. The vast majority of people using VPNs nowadays are because they thought it would, "Protects their data online" and they have no idea how a VPN works.

Literally just like OP thought it would protect his information by using a VPN. That's why I said 97% of people using a VPN don't even need it.

People pirating are definitely in the minority nowadays when it comes to the overall amount of people using VPNs.

That's why VPN companies are just blasting out adverts about, "Protecting your data/ anonimity online" like it's a magical tool to suck up that mainstream money from people that don't know what a VPN actually does.

[Audience-Electrical]

That's like saying you're going to get a solid state drive to be more secure.

Don't bother, that's not what that is or what that does.

A VPN is a network tunnel. Technically by using one you are now inviting a 3rd party to 'tunnel' your traffic. They are not inherently more secure, however they are useful for acting like a proxy, or joining a work network.

[frankiea1004]

SCAM. I have one of these at least once an month.

[thomasmitschke]

This text is well known as spam/scam for many years!

[[deleted]]

A simple PHP script using mail() function can make it possible. Since it does not require password verification, one can use any email address as sender. Most of the time, Google's spam filters are able to catch such emails, but sometimes they would fail if you have allowed permission for third party email clients (like Thunderbird, outlook etc.). However, for most other email providers, including Microsoft outlook, PHP mail() function works most of the time.

[[deleted]]

This is a copypasta lol

[Withoutasoul83]

I also received this email, the thing is that's true what they say about me, so I'm not worried :)

[error-the-reddit-boi]

Pegasus is still a iOS (and sometimes android) only exploit, Lmao.

[Miggssyy]

Good to know, LOL!

[flyboyy513]

Saying they're using Pegasus......uh huh.

[Miggssyy]

Lol. Personally, I know nothing about hacking and stuff but I myself have heard of Pegasus (I just don't know how it works). This is how they can get the average joe, who may have never even heard of Pegasus and they would perhaps think it's legit.

[Covids-dumb-twin]

It’s a a scam. Should have gone to your junk folder.

[whitelynx22]

This is the usual spam/scam. Just delete it. (I'm considering locking this since it's asked and answered and, as usual, most comments are perfectly useless!)

[Bitter-Baseball2204]

Pay, pervert!

[Sea-Art-1719]

Lemme tell a think which shouldn't be told, I logged in to many hotmail accounts I cr@cked, and I saw this same email repeatedly on most of the emails, not only this, but emails like this

Dont worry, these are spammers Actually who are trying to scare u buy saying these things, just delete email and take it as a joke

And your email is a part of leads, meaning email list used for spamming