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From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell9/6/2012 10:41:25 AM
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In the last few days I've been getting obvious spam from "friends". By that I mean their name is listed as the sender though the spammers don't bother to disguise the associated email address from some foreign country (i.e. there's no spoofing involved). The links are always some form of work-at-home scam set up to look like a legitimate news article. When I get such spam, I forward the email to my friend's real email address as a heads-up. The question they invariably ask is "How did the spammers get my contact list?" My guess is that they either voluntarily clicked on some link somewhere that gave permission to the spammers to access their contacts, or were fooled into it. My working theory, given that these people are Facebook friends of mine, is that they bought or acquired this information from a vendor on Facebook. Does anyone know anything more about this?

- Jeff
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