Extortion, Email Question, Please for the love of God help
I got an email from *myself& saying that someone has been recording me watching porn and that they're going to send it to all of my contacts. Google is saying that it possibly isn't really from me. How is that possible? I have 60 hours. It's from ChaosCC Hacker Group.
Extortion, Email Question, Please for the love of God help
@MadestMadness Let me add another person saying "the from line is probably spoofed." If you really want to check that, just in case, send an email to yourself. Gmail has a way to view headers (it should be in a little menu on the email itself with an option labeled "View original headers" or something). Compare the headers on both messages. If my suspicion is correct, they shouldn't be the same
Extortion, Email Question, Please for the love of God help
@MadestMadness On each message, there should be a menu button next to the reply button. Choose the show original option. What we're basically looking for here is if they're even remotely the same. Gmail doesn't bother with proper headers on messages to yourself. Just a to field, a from field, a subject, a date, and a content type. If it's substantially more complicated on the extortion message, it's not from you, but someone else.
Extortion, Email Question, Please for the love of God help
@auravulpes It's wildly different, but I don't understand why this wouldn't be different if I were using a different client, maybe?
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@MadestMadness It would be different if you're using anything other than the web client, but Google is still really good about not taking roundabout paths. If what you see looks more like the first image (a spam message I received) and not the second (A message I sent myself from Claws Mail), it's not from you, no matter what client it was sent from.
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@MadestMadness As an example, here's a screenshot of a message I sent to myself.
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@auravulpes How do I check those? What fields do I compare?