IT issue - who is right?

[verticality]

Person A keeps getting emails that say they are from Person B. Person B's name is spelled correctly, but their email address is wrong. So instead of being [email protected], it's (made up example) [email protected]. No-one else is receiving these emails from Person B, just Person A.

So who is right?

1. Person A who insists repeatedly that Person B's account is sending these emails and that they are to blame
2. Person B who thinks that these emails are from a third party spammer who has somehow got hold of the data.

And is there any way to find out which account is compromised - Person A or Person B?

I get them all the time from DH's 'aunt' (as in we know it's not her) and my uncle. Who died in March. Person A needs to listen for once.

Surely Person A just needs to mark as spam then delete and move on.

And block the sender, job done

Yahoo is notorious for this. I'm constantly getting the 'one-liner link' spam emails from people in my friends network, one or two of whom were hacked years ago. The spammers will have got hold of someone's contact list and making merry with it. Not B's fault.

I get these all the time claiming to be from random people I've not seen for years and never even knew well. They go into my junk box and I ignore them. I certainly would never start moaning to the person about them as I know they had nothing to do with them.

Definitely a scam. Little point in blocking the sender either as the next one will come from another slightly different address.

Everyone receiving and 'sending' the messages should run a virus check and Malwarebytes to check for viruses and malware.