Email received - should I be concerned?

Langtang

I wouldn't be worried, unless those video's have donkeys involved...

[Deleted User]

I wouldn't even know how to pay the $1350 into this pleasant chaps bitcoin account in any case ?

Don't you need an account number and sort code in order to make payment ?

[Deleted User]

Found it :

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/please-dont-make-an-even-more-fool-of-yourself-blackmail-email-scam/

I have also scanned with malwarebytes and it comes up clean

Neil_Jones

Deleted_User said:

Neil_Jones said:

These are just generic "scare/blackmail" emails.  File them appropriately - in "Deleted Items" and move on.

I have forwarded it to Action Fraud! 

Why?  No fraud has occurred.  Its not illegal to send these sort of emails (highly questionable, yes but not illegal as such) and to be honest, more fool you if you respond to it.  Just delete it.

Anyway its also not illegal to be interested in "adult" sites or to view them (or even to get off on them if they're that good to you), and of course if you're stupid enough to do it a) on work time and b) on work equipment then you'll have more serious issues to worry about than these emails as you're more likely to end up having a P45 lobbed at you.

unforeseen

I haven't seen that email for ages. I thought that one had died out. 

victor2

unforeseen said:

I haven't seen that email for ages. I thought that one had died out. 

Me too. Last time I came across it was well over a year ago when an elderly widow I know had received one, which had managed to bypass her normal spam filter. She clearly didn't meet many of the criteria, but still read it and got upset anyway. Had to add a new email filter picking a key word out that wouldn't normally come up in her conversation, which wasn't too difficult to do. Bitcoin for example!

[Deleted User]

Some people have a lot of fun with these emails and take the sender on a "safari".

If you are bored you could always offer to send the payment via western union and let the sender going on a long and wasted journey to collect nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419eater.com

mobileron

Ask for 20 copies say want to send to my friends,never heard any more.

[Deleted User]

Deleted_User said:

Some people have a lot of fun with these emails and take the sender on a "safari".

If you are bored you could always offer to send the payment via western union and let the sender going on a long and wasted journey to collect nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419eater.com

I don't know how to contact the sender
The sent address is fake 

onomatopoeia99

Deleted_User said:

I wouldn't even know how to pay the $1350 into this pleasant chaps bitcoin account in any case ?

Don't you need an account number and sort code in order to make payment ?

The email you received is a scam that will have been sent to thousands of people, your email address just happens to have been on the probably massive list that they spammed. 

To answer your question, you don't need an account number and sort code to make a payment in bitcoin, you need a bitcoin wallet address to send to and you can only send bitcoin you already have (which you would have to buy at an exchange, similar to exchanging GBP for EUR before going on holiday to France).  The email you quoted has the actual wallet address they want you to send $1350 of bitcoin to.  You can think of it as being similar in concept to the sort code + account number combination in that it is a unique identifier for a place where funds can be received, but funds in bitcoin, not funds in sterling.