Windows 10: A Friend's Email Was Hacked ..

'He' was asking me for money not too unusual and I replied a few times to 'him'. Do I need to worry, or take any precautions now?

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Email hacked?

I'm stumped trying to figure out why my mom (and a number of other people on my contact list) have received a spam email coming from me. It goes along the lines of: "Hello! <insert link to some Viagra page at some Canadian pharmacy website here>". I'm using Yahoo mail. I have a friend who says he's been getting spam emails from one of his friends, who also uses Yahoo mail. I'm wondering if something's going on with Yahoo mail, or is this just some coincidence, and if it is just a coincidence, then who hacked my email, and how did they even do it? I certainly never told anyone my password for anything, let alone my email address. I don't have a keylogger or any other virus either, I just ran a full malwarebytes scan and it came back clean.

 

Email to my friend

The likely explanation is that you are using a different character encoding than
your friend.

For example, you may be sending special characters in another language to
someone who only uses English, and they are then displayed as binary
in hexadecimal.

I suggest to compare the email you sent with what she sees to find out which
are these characters.

 

Email hacked?

Same thing has been happening to me ! I changed my Email password and it has seemed to fix this problem . Try using a really hard password with capital letters and numbers . Mine was with MSN not yahoo ( Yet ) .