Happened to a friend of my fathers on instagram lol. Buddy made an account with his name, added all his contacts and posted a video of him watching a pr0n video
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Nobody getting this particular campaign is at risk of that.
But yes, that does happen also.
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Interesting, looks like my personal email is safe but my work one has been breached 3 times
Bump. Just got an email almost identical to OP's. P/W is one I only use for Beyond, and isn't the same as the email address the "hacker" claims it is.
Yes, it's a simple password in my case, and the last time I changed it was either on, or prior to 13-June-17 (that's the last date it was changed on the computer I'm currently on, but I probably changed it a few days prior on my phone and/or tablet)
I have been getting follow ups to this in my spam using the same old password/email. Someone has saved the user info somewhere to reuse.