Spoofing/Phishing

[NDA]

Many of my contacts in my address book are receiving emails from my firstname.lastname but at an odd domaine with obviously a dodgy link to click on.

As far as I can tell, my address book has not been compromised, but I don't know enough about how this is done to combat it. I use an Apple Mac which, again, as far as I can tell, has never been infected with any virus.

From reading what I can on the web, it seems impossible to combat.

Anything I can do?

[anonymous-user]

Not really anything you can do at this point.

[NDA]

I am wondering how my contacts are being associated with my name by the scammers?

[Brainpox]

It may be an app you've allowed access to your contacts on your phone. Either the app is rogue or they've been attacked and data stolen.

[captain_cynic]

NDA said:

I am wondering how my contacts are being associated with my name by the scammers?

Maybe your email address has been compromised.

Not much you can do about that apart from changing your passwords (horse has bolted, but you still don't want an open gate). Modern spam filters are pretty good these days, so a lot of these emails won't get to their destination.