I've received the same emails, for livejournal accounts. They seem to reuse bitcoin addresses. Bitcoin blockchain explorers show that the addresses are recently created, and that people have sent them money.
I find it difficult to reconcile someone tech savey enough to use bitcoin falling for a scam of this nature.
On the otherhand, it might explain a lot about the crypto space!
> You will make the payment by Bitcoin (if you do not know this, search 'how to buy bitcoin' in Google).
The top result is from coinbase [1]. I would say everyone capable of online banking is capable of following these steps.
It’s as easy to assume that a world in which crypto is a trusted, common method of value transfer benefits them if they’re a leader in that space.