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Super Lloyd7-Dec-17 4:56
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jgakenhe6-Dec-17 18:27
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LOL, the same thing has happened to me a few times too. I seriously doubt it was a coincidence, especially if there is a link on the email. The last time was from a former co-worker that I didn't even care for or even socialized with. It's a little strange seeing "Hi Joe!" from someone like that.

I believe what happens is a computer with an email client on it, such as Outlook, is infected with a virus. The virus exports the computer's address book to some distant server and harvests it into a giant list meant for spamming and whatnot. Doing a quick google it looks pretty easy to use PowerShell or even worse, VBScript to export an Outlook address book. Thus, I'm very suspicious when I receive an email from someone that I do not socialize with.
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