Please take special care if you receive a Yahoo email that was unexpected or perhaps with a fairly generic Subject, Don’t automatically accept that it is safe – EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT BE FROM SOMEONE YOU KNOW. I have just witnesses yahoo emails to several of my more ‘public facing’ emails (although I have also communicated by email with this person too and it appears that the ‘hack’ has used their email address list to send out to everyone on it. It appears other people on that list have let the girl (Lady) know and she has fixed it. What is interesting is that someone else who was on her mailing list (and also has a Yahoo account) has also had a similar email sent to me. It is hard to know at this stage what the ‘hack’ has done. Some thoughts – It may be that as a result from the original hack the second person has been infected and the hack is being passed on, OR, it may be the hack has taken various addresses from the original infection and started using them to propogate new emails pretending to come from that person.To me – this second one is the more likely. BE CAUTIOUS:

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