Spam From People In Your Address Book

[MakersDozn]

(03-20-2013, 01:28 AM)tweeter Wrote: MDs, Greetings!

Please check your email.
Sent you email re an email I received. Copied and pasted the results of my response to it. You might have received the same email. Pls. advise.

take good care of yous,
tweeter

Howdy,

Saw the suspicious email in our inbox. We're lousy at checking email, so we weren't taken in by it.

The person in question (someone in your address book) has had their email account infected by a spammer/virus. It causes everyone in your friend's address book (including you) to receive the spam, in hope that you'll reply and thereby perpetuate the spam/virus chain.

Our solution:
Click Reply (not Reply All), but don't send the message.
In the "To" box, delete your friend's email and re-type it manually.
Change the subject line to "Your Email Account Is Sending Spam."
Then send the reply.

Hopefully this will alert the recipient to the problem.

(If anyone here has any other suggestions/experience, please chime in.)

MDs