Over the last year I have been getting a few spam emails a month with my friends names as the sender, but from email addys that are obviously not theirs, and whose email I don't even have in my email contacts.
The names of friends so far are not very generic like "Tim Wilson" or "Bob Martin", some are ethnic or unusual, like LaBelle, and some are hyphenated, but they are always correct.
Today, one came with my wife's maiden name as the sender. The only place she still has that name is on her Myspace, which has been lying dormant for years.
My email account isn't hacked or they would only be people from my email contacts or have a spoofed email address. My Google/android account mostly has first names, and my email address is not on my Facebook which is private anyway.
Where is this list of names being mined from?
The names of friends so far are not very generic like "Tim Wilson" or "Bob Martin", some are ethnic or unusual, like LaBelle, and some are hyphenated, but they are always correct.
Today, one came with my wife's maiden name as the sender. The only place she still has that name is on her Myspace, which has been lying dormant for years.
My email account isn't hacked or they would only be people from my email contacts or have a spoofed email address. My Google/android account mostly has first names, and my email address is not on my Facebook which is private anyway.
Where is this list of names being mined from?