Earlier today I received a suspicious email from what appeared to be one of my contacts. However, in Gmail it said it was sent from theiraddress@gmail.com via some Russian website. My question now is does this mean their account has been hijacked, or is it simply just spoofing their email address? And if it’s the latter, how would they have obtained my email address? I checked the recent access log in gmail (for both accounts) and didn’t notice anything suspicious, so I’m not entirely sure of how it could have happened.
A few minutes ago I started a boot time scan on their computer (which uses Avast Premier) to be safe, so I’ll definitely post back with the results of that once it finishes.
I know that there’s a million ways for someone to simply get my email address. What I’m concerned about is that it was a spoofed email pretending to be from one of my contacts. The question is, how would someone get access to one of our contacts lists? I’d assume it happened on the other end somehow as opposed to a spammer simply choosing a random contact of mine to spoof.
I know that there's a million ways for someone to simply get my email address.
Exactly, pic one.....
impossible to say how, one of your friends may have a infected machine and contacts was harvested by malware is one possibility..... and there are many other