Can a app from a site access your fb contacts?

[Wade Smart]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Patrick Asselman <iceblink at seti.nl> wrote:
> On 2012-10-02 23:39, Wade Smart 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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>
>
> Does any of this apply?
> http://www.facebook.com/help/217854714899185/
>
> Best regards,
> Patrick Asselman
>
>
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I have a double password on my account too. Its not coming
from me but to me.

I read that fb page and it doesnt apply.

Im keeping track of them messages because I dont want to be
the one responsible for causing something and, if Im not, I want
to be on top of whatever the problem is.

But I think I got my answer about it not being a linux thing.
I just wanted to make sure ;D

Thanks

wade
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