Receiving E-mail From People On My Contact List Erroneously

I have started receiving e-mail from some of the people on my Verizon contact list. For example, if Jack Jones is someone I correspond with, I will receive a message that looks like it is from him, but when I look at the sender details, it is from some e-mail account that we never heard of. In the message body, is a URL to click on. The subject is sometimes blank or sometimes it says: "For MyName". This has happened with several different of my contacts about once or twice a week with different URL's to click on. What can I do to stop this? Thanks for any assistance.

You or they probably have either
caught a computer viurs
had their email account stolen
had someone steal the email contatcts and are being email spoofed
Both you and your contacts should consider doing
change your email account password immediately
scan your computer with good antivirus software
You may want to change your email name

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