I got an email from myself that "You have been Hacked"

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This is the email I gotHello pervert, I've sent this message from your Microsoft account. I want to inform you about a very bad situation for you. However, you can benefit from it, if you will act wisеly.Have you heard of Pegasus? This is a spyware program that installs on computers and smartphones and allows hackers to monitor the activity of device owners. It provides access to your webcam, messengers, emails, call records, etc. It works well on Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. I guess, you already figured out where I’m getting at.It’s been a few months since I installed it on all your dеviсеs because you were not quite choosy about what links to click on the intеrnеt. During this period, I’ve learned about all aspects of your private life, but оnе is of special significance to me.I’ve recorded many videos of you jerking off to highly controversial роrn videos. Given that the “questionable” genre is almost always the same, I can conclude that you have sick реrvеrsiоn.I doubt you’d want your friends, family and co-workers to know about it. However, I can do it in a few clicks.Every number in your contact Iist will suddenly receive these vidеоs – on WhatsApp, on Telegram, on Instagram, on Facebook, on email – everywhere. It is going to be a tsunami that will sweep away everything in its path, and first of all, your fоrmеr life.Don’t think of yourself as an innocent victim. No one knows where your реrvеrsiоn might lead in the future, so consider this a kind of deserved рunishmеnt to stop you.I’m some kind of God who sees everything. However, don’t panic. As we know, God is merciful and forgiving, and so do I. But my mеrсy is not free.Transfer1800$ to my Litecoin (LTC) wallet:ltc1qyd************a5akeOnce I receive confirmation of the transaction, I will реrmanently delete all videos compromising you, uninstаll Pegasus from all of your devices, and disappear from your life. You can be sure – my benefit is only money. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be writing to you, but destroy your life without a word in a second.I’ll be notified when you open my email, and from that moment you have exactly 48 hours to send the money. If cryptocurrencies are unchartered waters for you, don’t worry, it’s very simple. Just google “crypto exchange” or "buy Litecoin" and then it will be no harder than buying some useless stuff on Amazon.I strongly warn you against the following:
* Do not reply to this email. I've sent it from your Microsoft account.* Do not contact the police. I have access to all your dеviсеs, and as soon as I find out you ran to the cops, videos will be published.* Don’t try to reset or destroy your dеviсеs. As I mentioned above: I’m monitoring all your activity, so you either agree to my terms or the vidеоs are рublished.Also, don’t forget that cryptocurrencies are anonymous, so it’s impossible to identify me using the provided аddrеss.Good luck, my perverted friend. I hope this is the last time we hear from each other.And some friendly advice: from now on, don’t be so careless about your online security.

Now I don't remember that I have access my personal account to access anything expect for job searches, Well can anyone help me please

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Anonymous

2025-07-11T17:54:15+00:00
I got the same email last year and today. This is most likely a "spoof" email scam. This is what I did:

When you open the email in Outlook, there are 3 dots in the top of the email, click it, and there are options. Click "View" then "Message Source".

https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/47cadfd2-b992-4913-8701-df1ef245b0c3?platform=QnA
You'll then get a pop up with the email headers. The sender's IP address is in this. Scroll down just a little to find the words "Received: from" and there is the sender's IP address.

Here is my email header from the scam email:

Received: from DM8PR01MB6933.prod.exchangelabs.com (::1) by SJ0PR01MB6448.prod.exchangelabs.com with HTTPS; Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:11:10 +0000 Received: from DU2PR04CA0357.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com (2603:10a6:10:2b4::32) by DM8PR01MB6933.prod.exchangelabs.com (2603:10b6:8:12::20) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.20.8901.28; Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:11:09 +0000 Received: from DB3PEPF00008859.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com (2603:10a6:10:2b4:cafe::de) by DU2PR04CA0357.outlook.office365.com (2603:10a6:10:2b4::32) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.20.8922.24 via Frontend Transport; Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:11:08 +0000 Authentication-Results: spf=softfail (sender IP is 156.246.234.106) smtp.mailfrom=live.com; dkim=none (message not signed) header.d=none;dmarc=fail action=none header.from=live.com; Received-SPF: SoftFail (protection.outlook.com: domain of transitioning live.com discourages use of 156.246.234.106 as permitted sender) **Received: from (156.246.234.106)**Go to an IP address lookup site, I used https://www.ip-lookup.org/ scroll down a little until you see where you can search for IP address. The IP address from my sender is from 156.246.234.106 and is from Hong Kong.

Next go to your recent sign in activity for your Microsoft Account. These are instructions for a personal account, if you have a business account, you may have to contact the Admin of the business account (if it's not you).

Go to account.microsoft.com.
1. Sign in with your Microsoft credentials.
2. Click on Security in the top menu.
3. Select Review recent activity.
4. You'll see a list of sign-ins from the past 30 days, including:
  
  Location and IP address
  
  Device and browser used
  
  Whether the sign-in was successful or blocked
  
  Any security challenges (like two-factor authentication
If all looks okay, no need to worry. No one has accessed your Microsoft Account. Then this is a fake scam email.
You can always change your password and make sure you have multi-factor set up, just in case.

I f you're in the US, you can also file a complaint for the email with Internet Crime Complaint Center https://www.ic3.gov/
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Anonymous

2025-01-30T01:33:27+00:00

I received this spoofed email as well, and it was alarming as it appeared to come from my account. I promptly changed my passwords and checked my login activity. After some digging, it appears that this is a technique called email spoofing, where the header associated with an email is changed to appear like it was sent from a different address. There is a good write up on how to determine this:

How to Tell if an Email Has Been Spoofed - Techlicious

Following this guidance, I did in fact confirm the email was spoofed, and in addition to showing where the message was received from, you can also see the authenticator flagged the email as spoofed.

So ultimately just another phishing spam email, but a good reminder to change your password.

Hope this helps.
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Anonymous

2025-01-11T12:49:21+00:00

I have had the same email, and I have checked recent sign in activity to find dozens of unsuccessful attempts, two-three a day since the start of the year. What should I do?
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Anonymous

2025-01-04T09:05:21+00:00

I received the same email, noted it was email spoofing from your clarification.

But the issue is, I have checked my account recent activity, there are always so many hackers from all around the world attempting to sign in to my account almost every day. Although they were all stated failed log-in attempt but this is not a good sign. I have changed my password and strengthened my account security. Microsoft has to do something to stop them from keep trying to sign in to our accounts.

Hope Microsoft Team would look serious into this matter.

Thanks!
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