Had a weird thing happen today. I received a spam e-mail from a friends address, but the friend didn't send the e-mail. It was sent to multiple addresses. Does my friend have a virus?
Ever Get Spam From Someone You Know?
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Amaris
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Your friend's account has either been hacked or is being spoofed. Is your friend using a free service like Hotmail, Yahoo! or Gmail? Those accounts are the most common to fall victim to hackery. If you can contact him another way, tell him to change his password.
As for having received spam from people I know, yes. It's happened to me once or twice on Gmail, and it still happens to me from a friend who doesn't monitor his Hotmail account. We've told him repeatedly to fix the problem, but he ignores it. I warned him next time I get unsolicited email from that account, I'm blocking it.
As for having received spam from people I know, yes. It's happened to me once or twice on Gmail, and it still happens to me from a friend who doesn't monitor his Hotmail account. We've told him repeatedly to fix the problem, but he ignores it. I warned him next time I get unsolicited email from that account, I'm blocking it.
He has so many viruses.
Thanks, It was from a Yahoo account. I'll let her know to change her password. I also told her to run her virus program just to be safe.
My brother's yahoo account has also been hacked (or whatever).
Several emails have been sent with a virused link in each of them, usually a different one each time. Eset picked it up the first time I clicked on one.
I told him to change his password & see what happens. Also, I forwarded the emails to yahoo myself. I haven't seen one of those emails in a couple weeks.
Several emails have been sent with a virused link in each of them, usually a different one each time. Eset picked it up the first time I clicked on one.
I told him to change his password & see what happens. Also, I forwarded the emails to yahoo myself. I haven't seen one of those emails in a couple weeks.
Another possibility is that your friend's e-mail address has been taken out of someone else's address book and is being used. On a couple of occasions I've received spam apparently e-mail sent from myself and I know at least one person who received it with my e-mail address. As I'm on a Mac I ruled out a virus at my end immediately (we Mac owners get knocked for being a bit "arrogant" in this regard, but the facts still bear the fact out, plus I know all the precautions) and it turned out a mutual friend had picked up a trojan - from doing the dumb thing of opening a file sent with a spam e-mail that apparently started mining the addresses in his Outlook address book.
Alex
Alex
I get spam from my best friend maybe twice a week.
He died three years ago.
He had an AOL account, and I guess they never "die."
The first time it happened, I thought it was a spambot who just happened to put together the right string of letters to forge the e-mail address. But the other people the spams are going to are people that he knew, so I know there's a spambot out there that's hijacked him e-mail account.
It's weird. Sometimes, it's really depressing to get one of those e-mails.
He died three years ago.
He had an AOL account, and I guess they never "die."
The first time it happened, I thought it was a spambot who just happened to put together the right string of letters to forge the e-mail address. But the other people the spams are going to are people that he knew, so I know there's a spambot out there that's hijacked him e-mail account.
It's weird. Sometimes, it's really depressing to get one of those e-mails.
It's probably just being spoofed. I get mail from "myself" all the time - seems like a rather stupid technique to use in this day and age. The rationale is apparently that you won't filter mail from yourself, but why would having a viagra ad with my return address make me more likely to read it?
I've gotten a spam email from someone I knew. No attachment, but it linked to a very suspicious looknig url that I obviously didn't click. Then I received about 5 emails from other people in his address book replying to the email (which got sent out to all of the CC addresses) warning people not to click it, and letting the guy know he'd been hacked. Hopefully nobody fell for it.
Then whoever took over his account actually messaged me on yahoo messenger later to ask for money (I didn't even have the guy on my yahoo messenger contacts, so he got lucky). I didn't even recognize the email address until I checked it afterwards, but I knew it was a scammer, so I had some fun with him. That's the only time I've seen it happen to someone I know.
Then whoever took over his account actually messaged me on yahoo messenger later to ask for money (I didn't even have the guy on my yahoo messenger contacts, so he got lucky). I didn't even recognize the email address until I checked it afterwards, but I knew it was a scammer, so I had some fun with him. That's the only time I've seen it happen to someone I know.
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