Email received - should I be concerned?

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onomatopoeia99 said:

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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.

Purely out of interest, if I wanted to send this poor chap $1350 in bitcoins - how would I physically do it?
I mean 1btrM7......... means nothing to me

flaneurs_lobster

Get yourself a crypto account app (Coinbase is a favorite) sign up much like an online bank like Monzo (needs photo id and selfie). Link a proper bank account to it and press BUY BITCOIN. Once you have bitcoin balance you can transfer it to the poor chap's wallet by quoting that long string of characters as the destination. 

Then sit back and wait for the next demands when they realise they've hooked a real oanist.

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gavinbaxter said:

Get yourself a crypto account app (Coinbase is a favorite) sign up much like an online bank like Monzo (needs photo id and selfie). Link a proper bank account to it and press BUY BITCOIN. Once you have bitcoin balance you can transfer it to the poor chap's wallet by quoting that long string of characters as the destination. 

Then sit back and wait for the next demands when they realise they've hooked a real oanist.

Maybe I won't bother then