Threatening email spoofs my own address

A reddit report about a phishing scam that cost someone $600.0. Learn how to avoid falling victim.

Source: reddit | Scam Type: Phishing | Amount Lost: $600.0 | Date: March 04, 2026
I got a really weird email supposedly from someplace called Hungerrush. The weird thing is the email is addressed to "hunger, rush," but it got sent to me. I have never received anything like this before. Here is the text: Dear HungerRush, You cannot ignore all my requests and expect me not to take malicious actions. You still have time. Every restaurant and customer of said restaurants' data which is in the millions is in jeopardy here and I can't even get a response back. Not to worry, there's still time left. Then they left some link for an email address that's bleeped out mostly. I could only see like four letters of it. What in the world is this? It seemed like a mass email sent out, and the email is no longer in my mailbox—it disappeared. I got another email from smh, looks like others have too. Now I got another email that is somehow spoofing my own email address, so it's supposedly from me, threatening to sell my information to the dark web if I don't give them $600. Anybody else got this email?

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