Mass email from Web mail

[Alan T]

Hi,

My wife has an yahoo email account.
One day I got an email sent from her account and it also cc to many other
her friends. The contents of the email of course is the promotion of a
company.

How did that company steal from web mail account?

 

[Tom]

Alan T wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My wife has an yahoo email account.
> One day I got an email sent from her account and it also cc to many other
> her friends. The contents of the email of course is the promotion of a
> company.
>
> How did that company steal from web mail account?
>
>
They didn't, they just change the "from" address to ones they've
captured from web sites, emails she may have replied to, or any of a
million sources. I get a lot of "undeliverable" messages for stuff I
never sent.

 

[Alan T]

Hi,

My wife told me the company sent email to her friends who are in her address
book.
She never sent mass email using her address book, so it seems the company
bought my wife's address book account from the staff of yahoo. Only Yahoo
staff can get her address book account.

"Tom" <t.wyckoff@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:Ebq3j.36445$701.16956@trndny08...
> Alan T wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My wife has an yahoo email account.
> > One day I got an email sent from her account and it also cc to many
other
> > her friends. The contents of the email of course is the promotion of a
> > company.
> >
> > How did that company steal from web mail account?
> >
> >
> They didn't, they just change the "from" address to ones they've
> captured from web sites, emails she may have replied to, or any of a
> million sources. I get a lot of "undeliverable" messages for stuff I
> never sent.

 

[fred green]

Hello please i want you to help me with email addresses link page i need
it for my business.....if you have any link page please help me send to
: atamhenwan@yahoo.com

Thankis for your understanding.

Fred.


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[Malke]

Alan T wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My wife told me the company sent email to her friends who are in her address
> book.
> She never sent mass email using her address book, so it seems the company
> bought my wife's address book account from the staff of yahoo. Only Yahoo
> staff can get her address book account.

This is nonsense and shows a real misunderstanding of how computer
infection works. What has probably happened is that someone who has your
wife's email address on their computer is infected. Many viruses will
then send emails with infected attachments or spam to everyone in the
infected computer's addressbook. The "from" line is often also spoofed,
taking random addresses from the addressbook. Naturally this friend's
computer will have other friends' addresses. Or your wife's computer is
infected.

There are quite a few possibilities, but none of them are that "the
staff of yahoo [sic]" sold your wife's addressbook.


Malke
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