It is just as unlikely that his email account got hacked as it is that
somebody hacked YOURS to send it to you.

If the scoundrels have a list of email addresses that might know each
other (such as conversations in an almost public email group), they choose
one from the list to send to, and another from the list to put in the
FROM: line.   There is an app to do that.

It is no harder to lie about who an email is from than it is for snail
mail.  I got a piece of snail mail with a return address of 1600
Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Wash DC.  Should I contact the secret service and
speculate that terrists have taken over the Whitehouse mailroom?  (BTW,
the postmark was New Jersey, and the email asked me to urgently said a
donation to a POBox)

Then, the scoundrels take another name from the list for another fake
return address, and send the email to another name on the list.

If they get a list from an email group, they have plenty of addresses to
send the scam from and to.   Why would they put in the effort to "hack"
Dick Tuttle's AOL email acct?  Unless you think that Dick Tuttle's AOL
email acct address book is the only place that they could have gotten your
address and the hint that the two of you might know each other.
They do not need to invade the Whitehouse mailroom to send out fake
emails that purport to be from there.

--
Grumpy Ol' Fred

On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, David Russel wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It looks like Dick Tuttle’s AOL email acct has been hacked.
>
> I got a “hope you are well. Can you do me a favor?” Email which made
> me suspicious.
>
> Called him and he had not sent it.
>
> David
>
> Sent From Mobile Phone