Lost Address Book, but now growing on its own

I recently lost my address book records overnight. I found my address book cleared of my own records, and filled with multiple entries of "Apple Computer Inc." Now, the address book is growing. Every few minutes another entry of "Apple Computer Inc." shows up in the address book. Has anyone else seen this? Any suggestions on fixing this?

You're not using Address Book correctly; you need to enter both a First and Last Name for each contact; not just a Last Name, or in All Caps. Mail and Address Book communicate, so when you receive an email from someone in Address Book, their name as they associated it with their email address when the account was setup is sent to Address Book and updated immediately.
That's why you will end up with double first names or last names, depending on what you entered. The solution is not to do that and use Address Book correctly.

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Well you are correct - you cannot import into .Mac mail.
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Hi Kanemelinda8833,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this issue.
Associating and verifying email addresses with your Apple ID
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE68
Also, make sure you have signed out of your Mom's Apple ID and are signed in with your own Apple ID on this device.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
Sign out of your Apple ID on all iOS devices, in the following locations:
Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. Tap your Apple ID, then tap Sign Out.
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First off, do a simple reboot: With the BlackBerry device powered ON, remove the battery a few seconds and then reinsert the battery to reboot.
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I am not sure what you were doing when your AB data was lost. But you can check in Library/Application Support/AddressBook if there is a file called AddressBook.data.previous and if it is dated before you lost the data.
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Hello:
I will be no help....the fact that it works here is no help to you.
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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:
Are you saying that my address book has not been hacked into? That others are getting these email addresses from another source?
This confuses me. Are you saying that you are receiving bogus e-mails from some of your contacts, or are you saying that they are receiving bogus e-mails from you?
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