Sherry (and all)

In fairness to Linda, I doubt that she has anything to do with any of this 
and may even not be aware of any of this.
Someone apparently has gotten a hold of an email address book of hers, 
perhaps not even a current one and has taken that info and spoofed her 
address and appears to be sending email on her behalf even though it is 
not on her behalf.  Unknown to most pc users, most email programs allow 
you to modify the address from which an email appears to be coming from 
and you may not realize it (and sometimes not even then) unless you 
examine the complete path from the header info as to the route the email 
may have taken.
The best practical solution, especially if you receive tens of this from a 
given individual and have no need to correspond with that individual, is 
to block that sender from showing up in your inbox, at least for the short 
term.
And if Linda is still actively using this email address -- which she may 
or may not -- she has likely heard from everyone under the sun by now so I 
doubt that she needs to hear from anyone else on this both because she is 
obviously aware of this and it is beyond her power to do anything about 
it.
Sadly, this could happen to anyone of us and even more sadly without our 
being able to stop it.
As I said, anyone can take anyone's email address -- or invent one -- and 
create an email address list and send from it.
Kind of scary, isn't it? And I feel for you, Linda, if you happen to be 
reading this.




 The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has
hands, it lays hold on me.
 Martin Luther


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