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[Kevy Baby]

Okay, I just got this second email and need to check.

Last week I received an email with the subject of "For Kevin" and the name that showed as the sender was my sister. The body of the email said "Hey Kevin" and included a link. Stupid me clicked the link and it was just a spam of course (I have run one virus scan and am running another right now to confirm). The email address from last week was a Yahoo address that I do not know.

I received a second email today with the same basic format (showing as coming from a friend, but with a Yahoo UK email address). Since this is now the second one, I am wondering if I am infected somehow that isn't showing up on scans. The reason I am wondering about this is that it is showing as coming from people I know.

DSLExtreme (the email account this is coming through) uses GMail as the email service, but I do not keep an address book online (and the names are being populated before it arrives in my inbox).

Any ideas out there?

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Okay, I just got this second email and need to check.

Last week I received an email with the subject of "For Kevin" and the name that showed as the sender was my sister. The body of the email said "Hey Kevin" and included a link. Stupid me clicked the link and it was just a spam of course (I have run one virus scan and am running another right now to confirm). The email address from last week was a Yahoo address that I do not know.

I received a second email today with the same basic format (showing as coming from a friend, but with a Yahoo UK email address). Since this is now the second one, I am wondering if I am infected somehow that isn't showing up on scans. The reason I am wondering about this is that it is showing as coming from people I know.

DSLExtreme (the email account this is coming through) uses GMail as the email service, but I do not keep an address book online (and the names are being populated before it arrives in my inbox).

Any ideas out there?

Sounds like the same thing I commented on awhile back.

Does it match someone scavenging relationship data from your facebook page?

And no, I don't think you are infected. But by clicking on that link you let the spammy scammers know your are a chowder head and now they will probably hammer you like crazy for awhile.