COVID-19 Phishing Sample #5: Dirty little secret
This email below has been confirmed as malicious or fraudulent by the Information Security department. If you have received this phishing email, do not open any attachments or follow the link(s) in the message; simply delete the email.In scams like these, the crooks don’t have any data on you, let alone details about all your family members and where they live. The “proof or secret” they may have is a password you used to have that was extracted from publicly available data leaked in an old data breach. Don’t be scared, send money or think of replying.
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/19/dirty-little-secret-extortion-email-threatens-to-give-your-family-coronavirus/