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Old 18-12-2016, 14:48
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Having seen a recent news report on the BBC web site about Yahoo having been hacked, I was interested to receive a very obvious (to me) spam email which might have resulted. The reason why it was obvious was that the supposed sender was somebody I knew very well and whose funeral I attended about 2 years ago.

The first part of the email address and the nickname matched exactly with his now totally inactive account but the part which had been @yahoo.co.uk was replaced by @zay.att.ne.jp. A quick Google of the suffix suggested that it may have been associated with the so called "419" spams/scams.

Needless to say, I deleted the mail without opening anything from within it.
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Old 18-12-2016, 15:10
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The timing is probably just a coincidence. The Yahoo data thefts were in 2013 and 2014.
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Old 18-12-2016, 15:18
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The timing is probably just a coincidence. The Yahoo data thefts were in 2013 and 2014.
You could well be right. It did, however, look like someone had got hold of his contact list as I was addressed by name and to an email address which I used regularly until 2011. His email prefix was of rather an unusual format so that was not just something the spammers could have made up.
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Old 18-12-2016, 16:30
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It did, however, look like someone had got hold of his contact list.....
Yes, his son got it too.
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