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Or perhaps your Facebook friends had their own accounts randomly hacked and phishing messages were sent to every one of the account's Facebook friends.

At any given point in time, half of America is posting some sort of critical message about the government online.



So that was my first thought. I accused them of carelessly falling for phishing and other stuff. But they had not seen any emails from their facebook friends or any other phishing attempts. And it seem like I was being targeted by various different facebook friends. Which increased the odds of me being the target.


> But they had not seen any emails from their facebook friends or any other phishing attempts

Maybe they just have a better spam filter than you


Or… it could just be spam.


Facebook plays fast and loose with data, perhaps one of your friends used a FB integrated service at some time which captured their friend list (e.g. you).


>perhaps one of your friends used a FB integrated service

Again that's what I thought too. But it was coming from different friends. Which means all of them must have done the same thing.

I also sent the email to my friend who works at facebook for investigation in case it was some service that wasn't playing by the rules.




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