Can a app from a site access your fb contacts?

[Bradley Hieber]

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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