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How did a spammer get a hold of my friend's email account and send spam from her email address?

Asked by Trustinglife (6668points) May 4th, 2009 from iPhone

My friend sent me (and 100 others) an email that is clearly spam. Of course I didn’t click on the link.

It just got me wondering how these things happen. Can you explain it to me?

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