Is this problem now becoming rife? In the past week or so I've had five or six emails - some allegedly from people I know, two not - which start:
Hey friend,
How are you doing recently? I'd like to introduce you a very good foreign trading online company and the website is [a different address each time.com] It can offer you so many kinds of [lists of stuff which the vendor thinks he may sell] Do check it out... or words to that effect.
Challenged, the 'senders' deny sending it.
I've suggested (1) reporting to Hotmail - dunno if that will help, but it's free and (2) changing their password.
Anything else they can do? And is this a known epidemic with anyone else at this time?