It happened again!
I have been using Yahoo! email account for about 13 years now. In June all my addressees, i.e. friends, acquaintances, business contacts, doctors, tech-support sites, etc., received some advertising emails (I do not remember now for what product. A couple of close friends notified me about "strange" mail, as they knew that I was not in sales business. No harm done, just a nuisance.
A couple of days ago a similar thing happened, this time the attached link was to something like "Cheap Canadian Prescription Drugs" website; I did not open the page as it was darkened and WOT warning appeared.
I suspect that the "Contacts" were stolen from the Yahoo! site. The most interesting thing is this (nobody of my friends knows how to do it): how a Reply gets to me if the original email was sent from a different email account?
I received a couple of "What should I do with it?" replies from my friends and a few automated responses from Comodo, Canon, etc. tech-support sites. There was even a Mailer-Demon response, as one of the addresses was not in use anymore and the mail was "undeliverable".
I am just curious about the technology behind this fraud. What I am serious about is this: could (and should?) the fact be reported to Web "Police", if there is such?