anyone shed any light on this?

[R1Geezer]

I keep getting emails that look like they are from someone I know containing a link then link turns out to be a link to some site that's trying to flog something. I contacted the "sender" and they have no clue what it's about. I have this from 2 different sources now. Looks like some sort of harvesting operation but usually they can;t easily make it look like they are comming from someone you know. Any ideas people, what's hapenning and how can I stop it, thanks.

[redcrx]

they are just hacked email address.
never click on the links, just in case. Email your friends and tell them to change their passwords, that usually stops them straight away

[ChuckFickens]

Have you checked the headers?

If they all show as coming from the same location in the header but have different reply addresses from your contact list then I'd suspect that your computer is infected.

[R1Geezer]

yes I''ve checked the header chuck, it all looks normal but the people concerned would not send this stuff ourt. I suspect the people concerned have been hacked as redcrx says.

[ChuckFickens]

If the links are to the same site then there are two options really.

either 2 people you know have been infected with the same malware which is sending the crap to all on their contact list, or, you've been infected with some malware which is sending mail to you with reply addresses taken from your contact lists.

I would certainly advise that you get both the people you have appeared to receive mails from to do a full scan with both their anti virus and with malwarebytes, but as a precaution I think it might be a good idea if you done the same on your own computer.

[LoftyLottie]

This happened to me with two particular contacts. I told them and they changed their passwords and it never happened again.

The funny thing is that one of them is a friend of mine who is very religious and does a lot of work for his local church and one of his email contacts was his vicar, who was thinking he was getting emails from him to buy viagra!!

[R1Geezer]

the format is similar but the links are different, I'm confident that there is no Malware, this is a large corporate operation and there and earwig can't fart without getting burned so I think the issue is with the senders. there is a cc list of names that look like real names but not from my address book. I only ever use Bcc when sending anyway.

[LoftyLottie]

Thanks Vibra xxx

Will pop over there now.