Originally posted by Tom S. Are you sure? I only ask because I recieved the following email from him last month. I don't know if someone hacked his email, if this was an honest request, or what, but I ignored it as phishing.
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Receiver;s Name: Yvon Bourque
That kind of email is called scam, not phishing. Both are types of spam.
I don't know if it's the case with this mail. But the worrysome detail is this:
Spammers maintain graphs of mail adresses.
So, in many cases they succeed to make the mail appear as if it came from a person's email address you know and using the persons real name WITHIN the mail.
What has been hacked in this case is the receiver's mailbox, not the sender's one. Not hacked in the usual way (so, no worry here). But the receiver left to much traces in the internet who he knows. Social networks are the typical trap.