CAUGHT WITH YOUR PANTS DOWN (APPARENTLY)

Have you received one of these?

Hello!
Look at the sender adress (sic) of this email ( From: ).
I sent this email from your account, I got full access to it and also your computer, even your webcam and microphone.
Few months ago you got automaticly (sic) infected with my malware, RAT ( Remote Administration Tool ), because your browser wasn't patched to that time when visited some website where my iframe was placed wich (sic) redirected to my exploitpack (sic) (drive-by-exploit) in the background.
Since then I collected all your private stuff, I even made some videos from you over your webcam and I think we both know, that if everyone else would see all that, your life would be simply hell!
I got absolutly (sic) all your contacts, your account on social network and so on...
To publish all I got from you would take me 5 minutes!
You know exactly about the very bad stuff and everything else you got on your computer!!!
I give you the chance to stop me from doing this!
Send me exactly 900$ in bitcoin ( BTC ).
If you don't know how and where to buy the bitcoins, Google "Where to buy bitcoins?", it's very simple task.
Your wallet can be created here: (deleted)
My bitcoin adress is: (deleted)
After that I will remove everything and we forget about everything - I promise!
I give you 3 days to get the bitcoins and pay me.
That all isn't a joke, like I wrote above, look at the sender adress (sic) of this email, it is your email and I sent it from your email account, because I got access to everything from you!

Yes, I know that the spelling and grammar kind of suggests that Robert is behind this but we, along with millions of other people get these emails every now and then. It's part of an international email spamming scam see:

FAKE SEXTORTION EMAIL SCAM

We get them through our Spark Xtra email accounts. Xtra was hacked a couple of years ago and millions of email accounts around the world were compromised. Of course we have changed passwords but the scammers use the old information in the hope that some people will panic and send them money which, apparently happens such is the shame of the suggestion of having accessed pornography on-line.

It makes me laugh though - the thought that some little scrote in Bangladesh or Ukraine or wherever might have watched me sans pants enjoying a little internet surfing! Good luck to them I say - maybe it should me me charging them 900 Euros!