Stalkers and Malware
Many "phishing" and other scam e-mails are sent from hijacked e-mail accounts, using lists of e-mail addresses found on computers by infecting malware. Usually, these are friends and contacts of the account holder, so they may be people who'd be sympathetic if he got into difficulties and needed money. But what happens if such malware infects a computer owned by a stalker? Well, the malware searches for lists of e-mails and personal details, and sends scam e-mails to them, and passes any other contact details to cold-calling scammer's call centres, as usual. Except these are not the computer-owner's friends and contacts: they are the people he's been stalking and obssessively gathering information on: see below for an example. -- On Sat, 17/12/11, PHILIP BEAVEN < philbeaven@btinternet.com > wrote: From: PHILIP BEAVEN < philbeaven@btinternet.com > Subject: My Sad Trip...Philip Beaven To: philbeaven@btinternet.com Date: Saturday, 17 December, 201...