OK... many of us have gotten an EMAIL where someone we knew had their Email Address Book compromised... and SPAM went out to large groups of people from their address book in alphabetical order. Seen it happen a few times, and have notified them that their address book has been compromised.
But something strange has recently started happening to me. I have Earthlink... so there is a Suspect EMAIL Folder where folks who contacted me and are not in my Email Address Book go to... which I check every day. No big deal.
But recently I started getting about 1 EMAIL a week from people who are in my address book... but the EMAIL goes to my SPAM folder... and although the name of the person is in my regular Address Book... the associated actual Email address is not them [[some one else who sent it). And the Email itself is just some link... which I probably should not have clicked onto... but since I know the name of the "labeled" addressee, I probably made the mistake and clicked it on.
The websites have always been "how to make money from your computer from home".
Is this some new sneaky sophisticated way to advertise? Or has my EMAIL address book been compromised [[again the EMAIL is only going to 1 person... me).
Just wondering if I should be worried or just annoyed at a new SPAM methodology?
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