How do I check for Pegasus spyware on my iPhone and Mac?

You just got a scam email, that is all. It actually sounds like the very common "Hey Pervert" scam. That is how that one addresses you and claims that they have installed Pegasus and has compromising pictures of you and the websites you have visited. It also asked for money, otherwise it will alert others. They even probably told you they have access to your account and spoof the sending address so you think that it was sent from your email account. All lies!

Nothing needs to be done other than delete the email and move on with your day.

Please familiarize yourself with Recognize and avoid social engineering schemes including phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support.

The same scams apply to email messages, text messages, etc. Lies, all of them. All you need to do is nothing. Install nothing. Do nothing. Delete and forget.

More Phony "tech support" / "ransomware" popups and web pages - Apple Community

Yesterday morning I received exactly the same word ‘hey pervert’ from my own email address in the junk folder. They asked me to send **coin in next 48h after I read the email or my m**t*****e videos will be published to all my contacts on my socials medias, on my phones book and on my email contacts. I still scare and stress now, thinking about that. The problem is, I shared that type of video online several times, That makes me worry. If I didn’t do, that’s not a problem.

A friend told me, if I send an email to my own email address, I will go to the inbox not to the junk. I did and he was right. It still make me nervous though until tomorrow morning to see if my contacts will receive the videos or not.

Shade7 wrote:

Thank you very much

No problem!

There are no videos for them to get.

Spoofing an email address is brain dead simple. Scammers use that trick all the time.

Delete the message and move on. Don't stress over it.

They won't. It's the same lie that's been going around for a minimum of five years.