Hacking into your friends

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The email came from someone I know. I could tell from how it was worded that it wasn’t truly from him, that someone was pretending to email from his a
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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I was under the impression that the people doing this sort of thing are using spoofing, so it’s not actually from your friend’s account. Is this wrong?

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Me too, based on the regular advice among those more expert than me (a lot more expert than me!) on my ISP’s forum.

Much the same with Facebook, where friendship invitations from people who are already your FB friends aren’t an indication that your friends’ accounts have been hacked, rather that they’ve been cloned –  which is altogether different and easily reported/resolved.

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oxapp-asc-98o.email.comcast.net 96.118.219.220

This is coming from Comcast servers. The attackers have been able to harvest the address book.  I’d still be treating this as a hack and changing passwords.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Thanks Susan for responding to the email so I could see what this was about.

I’ve had an email or two from someone like this. I look at the email address – if it looks legit, I throw it in the trash. If it looks bogus, I block the sender.

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Spoofed, not hacked. Your description suggests that you have a mail contact in common with the person who purportedly sent you mail. The common mail contact has been hacked.

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