Recently, certain forms of extortion mail seem to be popular again with criminals.
The mail usually starts with the claim that they have infected your computer and that they have been looking around for several months. They then claim that they captured the web camera footage while you were watching "adult sites". To prevent the images from being made public, you have to pay the criminal with Bitcoin.
To make it extra credible, they often use your own sender address. However, such an address is easy to forge. Just like you put a different sender on an envelope when you put it in the letterbox. The university has taken measures to almost completely prevent this. That is why they use different addresses now, often from other victims.
The content of the email is pure bluff. The sender has not infected your computer. He therefore has no information about what you have done on your computer. You can simply delete the e-mail, or report it to CERT-UT.
