Can a app from a site access your fb contacts?
Bradley Hieber
mercsniper at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 21:42:06 UTC 2012
Email are harvested and sold, them spammers can spoof an email "to"
address and send in bulk to other harvested emails.
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 2, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
> Is it possible for a app on facebook or for that matter, any site to access
> your contacts in say Gmail or Yahoo on linux?
>
> The reason I ask is, about two months ago I noticed one of my friends
> email was sending out spam. I notified her. She changed the password.
> A week later - same thing. Then another friend and then another friend.
>
> One of my friends has a goofy name on one of her email accounts. Only
> a few people have that account as we use it for private communication.
>
> The spam emails each have in the reply-to field my friends name. Now, I
> noticed that on facebook one of my friends has his name purposely
> misspelled and in spam emails I get - its the same way though in his
> real email account - its not misspelled.
>
> All of the spam emails are from yahoo accounts - and most of these
> people do not have a yahoo acct. Only one of these people are in my
> yahoo account but not with their current married name.
>
> So maybe Im just being a little paranoid but, Im hoping something
> hasnt found a way to scrape names from fb and spam people. If
> some type of spyware or virus has found a way to operate in Ubuntu,
> I dont want some crazy crap going down on my system.
>
> Wade
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