PCWorld reports that in the past week, a number of people have started receiving extortion demands that were sent via emails from the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
These emails are demanding users to pay $2,000 worth of cryptocurrency to a specific address, under the threat of stealth nude webcam photos of them being leaked to family members, friends, and colleagues.
Bleeping Computer provides additional details, including that the sextortion emails were reported by people on LinkedIn, X, and the Microsoft Answers forum.
The sextortion emails came from “o365mc@microsoft.com,” which may feel like a phishing address but is actually Microsoft’s legitimate email address used to send messages and notifications from the Microsoft 365 Message Center.
Read more at BleepingComputer. These sextortion emails — whether they are from the Microsoft Messenger Center or appear to be from your own email address — are bluffs, trying to intimidate you into paying. Notice that they never contain specific details or proof and just make claims that they could record you or have proof of you doing things that they will share with your friends and family.
Do not respond to those emails, and do not pay. If you pay, they will hit you up for even more money.
