I sent a copy of the email which my friend did not send to your Spam group. The email was addressed to many people we mutually know. The email contained a website only for a Canadian Pharmacy to purchase Viagara and Cialis.
How can I stop an unwanted email that looks like it came from a friend?
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It looks like your friend has the problem of the spam being sent. Unfortunately as a recipient it is hard to eliminate without eliminating getting email from the friend. Spam filters are supposed to help, but the filters are often not very smart.
Here is the advice I would give to the friend:
It is most probable that a spammer has your password. The most common way for that to have been obtained is by phishing spam. One thing you should definitely do is change your password.
When changing your password you also want to look at the Contact Information.
You should find a Yahoo! Email that agrees with your account name. You may find a Home Email. This is an alternate contact address. There should not be one unless you entered one. If you find an unfamiliar one it could have been entered by the spammers. If they have inserted a home email under their control, they can report a "forgotten" password and collect the new password at that address.
Advice to Carol and Carol’s friend:
Sometimes these spams seem to get sent without the spammer having your password. The malicious website may have a script that can tell your open webmail to spam your address book. You want to avoid clicking the link from within the spam in your open webmail.
The spammer can be using more than one method at the same time.