What can I do about this e-mail/spam issue? (See details)

Any chance you can contact the school’s IT department and request either to close the .edu account or if you still need the school email account..to have it changed to a new username/password and close the one that’s been comprised?

Look on the school’s staff directory for folks in IT ..there will be someone whose in charge of email accounts would should be able to help you..

With hacked emails, you can’t really tell much from the extention (.edu), although it is possible your school email has something to do with it.

What you need to do: Inform the school’s IT staff, change your gmail and your school email / account login credentials. Choose very secure passwords. Change security questions too, and if you have to, create a new email address (and secure password) as a secondary email address for password changes, etc. on the primary account.

Inform your contacts of the potential malicious activity so they don’t inadvertently become victims themselves.

Remember that opten spam emails have spoofed return addresses that cam be anything. If you changed the password it is doubtful they are coming from your account. If you want to make sure, print out the full headers and look at the IP address.

OTOH There is a chance your pc has a keylogger on it placed there by some slimy individual who had access to it. If one is there they would know your password.

@Fly Does this person that received the email follow you or vicea versa on FB?

@Tropical_Willie Yes, we are friends on Facebook.

She sent me one of the e-mails so I would have a point of reference, so I’ll post it here in case it helps:

To: [friend@email]
Subject: question
From: [fake email]@edu
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:59:10 -0800

Hey [person’s name].
How are you? Look at this [link]
Do you know about this site?

Sincerely yours,
[My name]

Have email addresses on FB the one that got Spammed? That maybe the crossover for email addresses. My sister’s name but not her email has ended up in my Spam folder.

Ah, I see your edit, @Tropical_Willie. I, too, have fallen victim to auto correct- it happens. :)

Edit: I see what you were asking now. At first I thought you meant the e-mail address that Facebook assigns you, but the e-mail account spammed is attached to and visible on her profile.

It’s the phone I’m using.

Just went through and deleted any apps that I don’t recognize and/or am not using just in case. I am wondering if it is possible that her e-mail was actually the one compromised, and as a result my own, because I can’t find any evidence of it on my own accounts.

And now it’s happening to me (I’m @Fly‘s mom, in case you didn’t know). Same exact email was sent to the same person, only signed with my name and using a different fake email address and extension (mine was a .com). I don’t even know where to begin looking, because none of my email addresses are used in the email. Grrrr.