Received an email from a "Hacker Group"

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Wednesday, December 18 2019, 12:44 AM
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I received an email today from a self claimed hacker group saying they hacked into my cloud storage. I am pretty sure this is a scam, but I still wanted to ask if I should be concerned about this or not.
  • Tâm Huỳnh
    more than a month ago
    Dear,

    I'm researching a ransomware which is sent via email. My research will be published in Vietnam to increase digital security awareness. So i hope that you can forward me this email for researching.

    Regard,
    Tizme
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    Monday, December 23 2019, 06:31 AM - #permalink
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    Hello Anthony,

    Yes, your assumptions are 100% accurate - this is a perfect example of a phishing/scam email. Crooks merely attempt to extract money from unsuspecting recipients by sending such deceptive emails to hundreds of thousands of email addresses. You have nothing to worry about.

    You can find more information regarding email scams in this page.
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