E-mail account hacked?

[Berkshire]

Someone sent the below e-mail to me FROM my own e-mail account.  Please note that I do not visit porn sites and there were no videos accompanying this e-mail.

Any comments appreciated.

 

Hello!

As you may have noticed, I sent you an email from your account.
This means that I have full access to your account.

I've been watching you for a few months now.
The fact is that you were infected with malware through an adult site that you visited.

If you are not familiar with this, I will explain.
Trojan Virus gives me full access and control over a computer or other device.
This means that I can see everything on your screen, turn on the camera and microphone, but you do not know about it.

I also have access to all your contacts and all your correspondence.

Why your antivirus did not detect malware?
Answer: My malware uses the driver, I update its signatures every 4 hours so that your antivirus is silent.

I made a video showing how you satisfy yourself in the left half of the screen, and in the right half you see the video that you watched.
With one click of the mouse, I can send this video to all your emails and contacts on social networks.
I can also post access to all your e-mail correspondence and messengers that you use.

If you want to prevent this,
transfer the amount of $702 to my bitcoin address (if you do not know how to do this, write to Google: "Buy Bitcoin").

My bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) is: 142e8SgyTLnkvwkDkNNon9jMtKY4UDvQqr

After receiving the payment, I will delete the video and you will never hear me again.
I give you 48 hours to pay.
I have a notice reading this letter, and the timer will work when you see this letter.

Filing a complaint somewhere does not make sense because this email cannot be tracked like my bitcoin address.
I do not make any mistakes.

If I find that you have shared this message with someone else, the video will be immediately distributed.

Best wishes!

[CharlieH]

Seen this over 100 times in the last year, absolute BS and a typical scam email.

 

Delete it and forget it !

[Berkshire]

1 minute ago, CharlieH said:

Seen this over 100 times in the last year, absolute BS and a typical scam email.

Thanks for that Charlie.  So they've managed to send this e-mail from what looks like my e-mail account, but not really?  Which is to say my e-mail account has not been hacked?

[CharlieH]

No, that is achieved quite easily with a "mask", they have picked up your email address and possibly a password from a site you have used at sometime, or someone else did, and sold it in a list of 1000's of others.

If they claim to have a password and you recognise it, change it just to be sure to avoid future similar emails. These goons swap info so dont be surprised if you get variations on the same theme in the coming months, just delete them.

[Berkshire]

3 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

No, that is achieved quite easily with a "mask", they have picked up your email address and possibly a password from a site you have used at sometime, or someone else did, and sold it in a list of 1000's of others.

If they claim to have a password and you recognise it, change it just to be sure to avoid future similar emails. These goons swap info so dont be surprised if you get variations on the same theme in the coming months, just delete them.

Ok Charlie, sounds good.  Again, much appreciated.