Hacked Address Book?

I am still on 10.5 (***** as Chrome is no longer updating browsers for this version). My iMac cannot update to newer version.
But anywho.... I received a spam email wilh a link from my cousin's email address a month ago. Just deleted it and told her about it. But now I've received the same type of spam email for 2 other people that I know. I am beginning to think that my mail address book has been hacked. How do I check and see if it is? Just too strange that 3 mail accounts from friends send me the same type of spam email.
I use spam sieve, but it doesn't catch the ones from my friend's email addresses.
I never click on a link, open a document or go to websites that at suspicious. I have been very careful; but apparently not careful enough.
Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Patrice

You could check to see if the spam related passwords are all on the same web site. If so it is almost certain that an automatic email harvester has picked them up and sold them around the world. Email harvesting from the web costs very little and can collect millions of passwords.
Most people use disposable passwords for web sites that insist on having them.
If you edit the site you can deter harvesters by encoding the password or replacing @ with at etc.
The most effective deice I have found is to use an image so anybody wishing to use it has to type what they see - better still if you use JavaScript to delay image display let me know if you want details of this.

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You said:
I am receiving bogus emails which claim to be sent by people in my address book, but actually are not.
...and:
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2GB of memory
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7GB of available space
To purchase it you will have to ring Apple at the number given at the bottom left of this page.
The requirements for Mountain Lion are listed here:
http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
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