'You may not know me, and you are most likely wondering why you’re getting this mail' Email Scam

Email tactics are still helping online con artists make money out of innocent users, so you should try to familiarize yourself with some of the more common tricks that such tactics rely on. One of the most recent schemes of this sort is the 'You may not know me, and you are most likely wondering why you're getting this mail' email scam – it tells the recipients that the attackers have obtained a video of them while they were browsing an adult site, and the content will be sent out to all their online contacts.

The 'You may not know me, and you are most likely wondering why you're getting this mail' email scam claims that the attacker has managed to collect contact details from the victim's Facebook and email – the last portion of the message states that victims can prevent the video from being sent to their friends by agreeing to pay a ransom fee of $1,900. The crooks ask to receive the money via Bitcoin so that they will not be traced.

If you receive a copy of the 'You may not know me, and you are most likely wondering why you're getting this mail' email scam, you should ignore the message's contents – you can rest assured that nothing about the fraudster's claims is true. The best thing to do is to delete the email, and then report the sender for spam.