English is not my native language , sorry if I made mistakes ) I ( 19 M ) am a music producer . I just graduated from a little school of music production here and I've been working on music ( producing , playing and making my own songs ) since I was 14. Today I found an email send by my own email in the Spam box . Someone had my gmail password and they were telling me that If I didn't give them $ 1800 in bitcoin they will expose photos of me m4sturbating cuz they had access to my cameras . I don't watch pom that often and when I do I know for a fact that the camera is not pointing at my D or my face . But I really got scared of the fact that they had my password . Previous to this I had a problem downloading a plugin . It was a D - Drum that I really wanted but couldn't afford , so I searched how to get it for free . I ended up in very suspicious pages and since then I've been thinking that I might got a Virus on my pc . Back to today , I read that email and my mind goes white . I didn't know what to do , I was shaking like a chihuaha , I was about to throw up and the only thing that came to my mind was to reset every device that had my google account . I reset my PC , my laptop and my cellphone . Now I started to search about this and turns out this meant nothing . The email was 15 days old and the password was an old password . I looked in youtube and every video says that is nothing , that all you had to do is change your password , put some security on your google account and not use the same password for every website .

I felt like my dream of becoming a musician is over. 5 years of hard work. 5 years of hours late at night trying to learn new techniques and trying to make the best songs posible. It's all gone now.

I lost everything , I lost all my photos , I lost the videos that I made and the thing that hurts me the most , I lost all my musical projects . More than 100 song ideas that were going to see the light some day . I lost it all . My band and I were about to launch our first single and it's gone . But Im not giving up .

I do have a backup and it's inside in my head . I remeber most of the songs ( at least the ones with most potential ) and when I feel better I'll go to that computer and start working keep my dream up .

And for those who try to scam people or do this bad things . Be better at life , bro . Where do you see yourself after ? You think you can be happy knowing what you do ? How many people you harm ? You can't do this forever , can you ?.

TL;DR I just deleted all my musical projects because I got scared of a scam email. I feel destroyed.