On 6/25/2011 2:26 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:16:27 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> On 6/24/2011 4:45 PM, Giusi wrote:
>>
>>> An email address can also be gleaned from someone else's address book.
>>
>> More than once I've gotten emails supposedly from friends or family
>> trying to sell me stuff or open some link. Creepy.
>
> And your email address was then sold to other spammers (once you don't
> wire $5000 to your friend stuck in Columbia who was robbed and can't
> talk on the phone but desperately needs your help quickly).

Hah. Yeah, don't call gramma, send her an email.

My first introduction to stolen emails was a lot of years ago when
someone here asked if I'd sent them an email with an attachment.
That would be a no. Ick.

nancy