[font="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="3"][color="Blue"]The latest variation of SPAM is SPIM - spam that is spread by instant messaging programs.
I have received several of these on Windows Live Messenger, from some of my WLM contacts, also a couple of my contacts have received them from me.
Apparently, the way to prevent this is for the contact that the spam originated from to change their account password on WLM.
I suspect that my WLM details were obtained when I used it on a PC in a cyber caf