spam emails from my contacts
Okay this is more about email than internet, but I have been receiving spam emails from fake emails from my contacts, (like the emails are untraceable, and the spelling of my name and the senders nam...
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If they had hacked into your account, the spam would be going out from "you" to all of your contacts. Since you are receiving the spam, it is more likely that one of your friends had their account invaded. These spammers don't want to "hack" an account. They mostly want the contact list since friends are more likely to open emails from friends. They don't send the spam from the account they invaded; they manually enter the trusted name into their Reply address... and send it from their computer.
how would they have gotten my contact list?
Did the trainers use the same email server? If so, I'd assume that server was compromised.
I used to get those types of emails from my Excite account.
No they did not. I think they were just personal emails
They can get your contact list in several ways. They can set their computer to "force" your password. Their account tries thousands of password combinations until one works. Or they can send you an email asking for you to click on a link... and the link gets them into your email. Or they get into the entire email system which happened to a major email provider in 2014. Or they get into your friend's account and open one of your emails to the friend that is copied to many people.... they scrape all of the addresses.
But you said that "both" of the spam senders were your trainers. If the spammers had gotten into your account they would not have stopped at 2 people. They send an email from every single contact on your account. In hopes that you open one of them. Or they send out a spam to everyone on your contact list. Anyway, I don't think that your account is in any danger. To make sure, you can change your password.
