Should I tell my bible study leader?

[faith]

This is the second similiar email from her today. The first was probably in early November.
I saw her email address, clicked on and it is an ad for men's dysfunction pills. (You get my point).
There is no way she would ever send me or anyone in our class(all ladies) this ad.
I only know her from this class, and it is not at my church. I really don't know the others either except at class.
I checked the additional email addresses included, and I recognized atleast a couple first names from class.
NOone said a word to me in Nov, including the class leader. Could she not know about these emails? Maybe the ladies are like me, and have said nothing.
What would you do? I think she will be mortified.

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

This is the second similiar email from her today. The first was probably in early November.
I saw her email address, clicked on and it is an ad for men's dysfunction pills. (You get my point).
There is no way she would ever send me or anyone in our class(all ladies) this ad.
I only know her from this class, and it is not at my church. I really don't know the others either except at class.
I checked the additional email addresses included, and I recognized atleast a couple first names from class.
NOone said a word to me in Nov, including the class leader. Could she not know about these emails? Maybe the ladies are like me, and have said nothing.
What would you do? I think she will be mortified.

Of course I would tell her. Someone has obviously hacked her email account (unless she has a sideline business you don't know about ) and for her own protection she should be changing her passwords and checking her computer for viruses.

 

[themilesfamily]

I would let her know ASAP. It sounds like her email account has been hacked.

 

[Jennasis]

An old friend who I haven't emailed in YEARS has been sending me wacky ads for months now, along with the rest of her hacked email address book (I can see the "to" line in the e-mail).

Let her know so she can take care of it.

 

[aaarcher86]

Sounds like the famous Viagra virus.

I had the same thing. I'm sure she doesn't know. I didn't find out about it until a week or so of sending random emails went by and I had 'bad email' returned mail in my inbox and my father in law and brother in law informed me of what I had sent them.

 

[faith]

Thank you all. You can tell I know little about computers.
Wish it wasn't this nice lady, but I will call her.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

This happened to me. I've changed my password multiple times and it hasn't helped. Just ignore them.

 

[aaarcher86]

This happened to me. I've changed my password multiple times and it hasn't helped. Just ignore them.

From what I understand, the virus has a keylogger that will log your passwords. You have to remove the virus first, then change your password.

It worked for me. I downloaded AVAST and Superantispyware for free, ran both and removed what they found.

 

[bushdianee]

I was getting these same emails supposedly from a cousin.they never had anything in the subject line. Then I got an email from a friend telling me she had got one from ME. I haven't had any for a while now. I just deleted them without opening them as my cousin makes sure to put in a subject that I would recognize.

 

[mhsjax]

Let her know. This happened to us just last week. We started getting e-mails
from a family that we know, but really haven't seen in quite a while. These are not the type of people to send this and one day we got about 4 from them. The next day we got a true e-mail from them saying their e-mail had been compromised and that they didn't send those e-mails promoting viagra. But I already knew that.

 

[Katieinwonderland]

DH had his account hacked a while back and emails sent out advertising Viagra. He had no idea since they went to totally random addresses and didn't go to most of his friends or to my accounts.

He found out when his mom sent a message back saying "no thank you sweetie, your father doesn't need any help!" He was horrified!

 

[palavra]

I got a similar email from my pastor's wife! I would let her know.

 

[tasha99]

Yes, let her know. They probably aren't from her really; they just look like it to fool you into opening the email. I had that happen to me, and it turned out my email address was being spoofed to my friends. I closed my account and opened a new one, and my friends blocked my old address. Problem solved.

 

[MM27]

about a month ago my sister asked me if I sent her an inappropriate email to her school email. She said it was sent at 3 am, so she was suspicious and didn't open it. Turns out my account was hacked, which I think originated from Facebook. I scanned my computer, changed all my passwords and everything has been fine since. I did go to my email sent box and found that she wasn't the only one that got an email. Everyone in my mailbox had gotten one. There were several different ad type emails. Everyone from my mother, to my principal

 

[disneydreamersx4]

I also got the "men's help" email from a cousin who never emails me. I was wondering what that was all about.

Will there be something wrong with my computer now that I opened that email? Does someone have my passwords now?

 

[golfgal]

There was a virus going around last fall that sent these kinds of emails. We had 2 friends that had them. We told them right away that we got them and they had a virus on their computer. They both had to get their computers wiped. I always tell people if I get weird emails from them because it is always a virus that causes that.

 

[disneybound2010]

Let her know.If you are embarassed about the content just tell her that you received an email that looked suspicious and upon investigating realized it was a virus sent from her email and you wanted her to be aware of it. If she asks, you can either tell her or say it was something she wouldn't approve of. I'm sure she'll be happy to know.

It happened to me, too. My Dad called me asking why I sent him a link to Viagra Thankfully, he has a good sense of humor!

 

[Green Tea]

Of course tell her. She has either a virus or has been hacked.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

DH had his account hacked a while back and emails sent out advertising Viagra. He had no idea since they went to totally random addresses and didn't go to most of his friends or to my accounts.

He found out when his mom sent a message back saying "no thank you sweetie, your father doesn't need any help!" He was horrified!

I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't have laughed, but I can see MY mom emailing something like that as well and I'm STILL laughing!

At least his folks are good eggs about those sort of things!