Is this email a scam?

[neoviper27mk]

I just received it and want to confirm
When I found this email, it appeared to be sent from my own address, with the subject "noted by myself." However, the sender status is marked as "Unverified Sender," and there's a warning at the top of the email advising caution.
The email claims to be from a professional hacker who has allegedly gained access to my operating system and monitored my activities for months. They threaten to expose private information and videos unless I transfer $1290 in Bitcoin to their account.
Is this a legitimate threat, or is it a scam? Thank you in advance for any help.
Hi there!</br>

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I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your operating system.</br>

Currently I have gained full access to your account. </br>

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When I hacked into your mail_account, your password was: xxxxx... </br>

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In addition, I was secretly monitoring all your activities and watching you for several months. </br>

The thing is your computer was infected with harmful spyware due to the fact that you had visited a website with porn content previously. &#9581; &#5198; &#9582;</br>

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Let me explain to you what that entails. Thanks to Trojan viruses, I can gain complete access to your computer or any other device that you own.</br>

It means that I can see absolutely everything in your screen and switch on the camera as well as microphone at any point of time without your permission. </br>

In addition, I can also access and see your confidential information as well as your emails and chat messages.</br>

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You may be wondering why your antivirus cannot detect my malicious software. </br>

Let me break it down for you: I am using harmful software that is driver-based, </br>

which refreshes its signatures on 4-hourly basis, hence your antivirus is unable to detect it presence.</br>

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I have made a video compilation, which shows on the left side the scenes of you happily ****, </br>

while on the right side it demonstrates the video you were watching at that moment..&#7508;.&#7508;</br>

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All I need is just to share this video to all email addresses and messenger contacts of people you are in communication with on your device or PC. </br>

Furthermore, I can also make public all your emails and chat history.</br>

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I believe you would definitely want to avoid this from happening. </br>

Here is what you need to do - transfer the Bitcoin equivalent of 1290 USD to my Bitcoin account </br>

(that is rather a simple process, which you can check out online in case if you don't know how to do that).</br>

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Below is my bitcoin account information (Bitcoin wallet): 18czDUCipjzMvKhch8YQmER4r8agzzCa6e</br>

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Once the required amount is transferred to my account, I will proceed with deleting all those videos and disappear from your life once and for all. </br>

Kindly ensure you complete the abovementioned transfer within 50 hours (2 days +). </br>

I will receive a notification right after you open this email, hence the countdown will start.</br>

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Trust me, I am very careful, calculative and never make mistakes.</br>

If I discover that you shared this message with others, I will straight away proceed with making your private videos public.</br>

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Good luck!

 

[Grizzly]

You are right, this is a scam. Just ignore and delete it. Those emails I rarely get to see because they automatically end up in my junk/Spam folder.

 

[Bastet]

As Grizzly says it’s a scam. On the off chance they profess to have any of your passwords then most likely they’re old & from some data breach.
I receive these ‘porn emails’ regularly.

 

[Xploit Machine]

SCAN & SPAM .. just move it to Junk and/or report as Phishing..