On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 09:14:38 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

| From: ac via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | essentially : Spam is dead. (So, you do not have to receive these | 'blackmail' emails)

Thanks for the hints on spam.

This particular email contained valuable information: that Canada Computers had been hacked. So I'm glad that it got through to me. I don't want it filtered out.

no, not really. by the time you receive the type of email you have, it is way too late. The email you received is from a bulk mailer and the syndicates already know that the information that they have your password is only of importance to be used to scare you into paying. Cyber crime is a business. It has costs, risks, returns and information/data is all important. The only time you will receive your password as part of a ransom email is when there is no value left in the data itself. So, it is in fact pointless, useless and wasteful spam. That you think your blackmail email contained valuable data is funny :) How sure are you that it was Canada Computers? Are you saying that that was the only place you used that password? And, is it a current password (dollars to donuts says: no...) and with Google hacked, Yahoo hacked, Microsoft hacked, it matters very little anyway... Change your passwords every 30 days (or less) and never use the same password twice (or even anywhere else) - If they sent me my google/yahoo/etc password - I would even be able to tell you from which week it came :) hth Andre