Bribe Email Concerns?

Spender£

I receive occasional emails in my spam box marked as dangerous from scammers and i always delete them straight away.
I have received another today however it seems a bit worrying to me, It has one of my many current passwords marked at the top of the page with the text claiming a video of me visiting !!!!!! sites or something of that nature which i know is garbage but i'm concerned as to how they got this password. The person threatening to send this video to five of my best friends on Facebook even though i closed my facebook account over eight years ago and i never put photos on their anyway if i don't pay etc.
I have good antivirus and and anti malware etc and i'm always carful, i even have a diamond cut shredder and bins locked up etc.
With this being the case i have changed the passwords on previous accounts which had this password still on them and this is a complicated long password with numbers symblols upper and lower case letters which they have not a simple one.
I am thinking that this is all they have one password as i know the rest of what they are saying is just not true and the email asks me to pay a bribe of $1589 dollars at the end which of course i would never pay. 
Anybody seen these before with their password on there?

Farway

There's a previous older thread about this. If your search skills are better than mine you may find it

Spender£

Farway said:

There's a previous older thread about this. If your search skills are better than mine you may find it

Great thanks, I'll have a look!

debitcardmayhem

There are lots of threads detailing this, but a big WARNING (sorry) do not use the same passwords on multiple sites.

RumRat

Don't worry about it, they have nothing else, if you are worried just change the password on the sites you use that particular one for.
Here's one of the many threads on the subject....https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5870841/blackmail-email-which-contained-a-password

Spender£

This site seems to explain much of it!
https://www.getsafeonline.org/protecting-yourself/blackmail-emails/

A_Lert

Yes I've had a few like it.

Hackers break into a website and steal all the usernames and passwords used on that site. And in many cases stuff like names and dates of birth too. Scammers get the list and send scam emails like the one you sent.

The breaches are just getting bigger and bigger, some of the lists have hundreds of millions of entries.

Spender£

RumRat said:

Don't worry about it, they have nothing else, if you are worried just change the password on the sites you use that particular one for.
Here's one of the many threads on the subject....https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5870841/blackmail-email-which-contained-a-password

Thanks for the link!

mgfvvc

My wife got one from a less competent scammer with a password that she didn't recognise at all.

Neil49

If you enter your email address into the following website it will tell you if your email address and other details have been obtained from other hacked websites. 

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Red_Army

Always change your passwords regularly and use Two-Factor Authentication where possible.

Password Managers are a great tool to have at your dispersal.