Second time: I received one of those emails with a password in the subject. It looked familiar, and was in fact an (old) password I had used. Someone took a hacked DB and just fired off countless emails with the passwords to the matching email addresses. But the tone of the email was what spooked me. It said, I have had full access to all your emails, I have figured out how to reset accounts and hacked into your webcam and have some very interesting photos. Either you pay this amount to this bitcoin address or I send the photos to all your contacts and your life will be ruined.

I got one of those once. They were demanding that I send them bitcoins. I knew it was a scam because I never used a computer with a webcam while doing anything that would have provided them interesting pictures. I didn’t know how to buy bitcoins anyway so I was just like “welp, if that turns out to be real enjoy looking at my nudes family and friends”. I look good naked anyway.