I got an email supposedly from someone on my address book with a website details on it selling chinese stuff?
March 9th, 2010 | by admin |now, I know that this person would not have sent this email and it now turns out that everyone on her address book has been sent this email. Does this suggest that this person has a virus? Also, I replied to her and to her work email. I got a reply straight away from her original email with the subject line "yahoo! auto response" and a copy of the original email. What the heck does all this mean?
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Could be a virus, could be Spam or Phishing. They somehow know that you and that other person have a tie to each other so another company may have had access to that and used that in order to send you e-mail message. Tell your friend to clean their system and on your end, clean your system since you did open the e-mail. Then see if it happens again. If it was a virus, it may not happen again but if it was spam or phishing, you may be able to report it and then block them. Still clean your system since you opened that e-mail.
2 Responses to “I got an email supposedly from someone on my address book with a website details on it selling chinese stuff?”
By lonelymaytagguy on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply
Yes, she probably has a virus which is busy sending spam from her computer.
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By MikaB on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply
Could be a virus, could be Spam or Phishing. They somehow know that you and that other person have a tie to each other so another company may have had access to that and used that in order to send you e-mail message. Tell your friend to clean their system and on your end, clean your system since you did open the e-mail. Then see if it happens again. If it was a virus, it may not happen again but if it was spam or phishing, you may be able to report it and then block them. Still clean your system since you opened that e-mail.
References :