I have had this recently too. Fortunately I knew some time ago from haveibeenpwned that a particular e-mail address and password combination of mine had been leaked. That was a long time ago and my e-mail password has been changed many times since.
The nasty bit of the message was as follows (I paraphrase): We have footage of you viewing porn and will e-mail this to all your contacts unless you pay us XXXX in bitcoin. They want me to believe that my webcam has been spying on me (they don't know it has a shutter that is closed nearly all the time) and the implication is that they have a video of me "enjoying" the pornographic stuff that they will show on some sort of split-screen arrangement. They also want me to believe they have harvested my contacts list.
So far I have had this message twice.
Not nice.
Edit: Posted this before NoF posted his second message, so it's largely redundant.
Last edited by: James Loveless on Sun 19 Apr 20 at 21:42
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