Is this email legit or scam? [duplicate]

Question

got this email on gmail spam folder was wondering if this is legit or not ..

Answer 1

Almost certainly (~98% confidence) it's a scam. 99.9% confidence if "pfax8fg0gq" isn't actually one of your passwords, but even if you have used that password, it's still more likely to be a message from somebody with access to the password database of the site you used it on trying to scare you, rather than truthfully having compromised your machine.

A handful of clues in no particular order:

• Gmail recognizing it as malicious / junk
• This is a very common scam format (which is why Gmail recognizes it), practically a form letter and the modern equivalent of the "Nigerian Prince" 419 scam. I've gotten it multiple times myself (with minor variation in wording), only occasionally with an actual password from my past, and never paid or gotten "embarrassed" by the consequences of not paying
• Sender name and email address don't match
• Awkward, poorly-written English indicative of the author not being fluent or at least not a native speaker
• An actual blackmail attempt would have no reason not to provide evidence (such as a screenshot from the supposedly-captured video, and/or one of the harvested email addresses); the lack of any is strong evidence against it being legitimate.
• The terminology is vague enough ("the adult videos website" rather than any specific site, "video you were viewing" without any details, "to have fun"/"it is u" without any specific reference to what you were doing that might depend on what body parts you have or how you watch porn, etc.) to be plausibly true for a large number of people when, again, an actual blackmailer could and usually would be more specific.