I don’t know if it’s happening to other dopers she knows, but about once a month I get a spam e-mail from Shirley. It’s no subject and a link to some random website.
Shirley, change the password on your e-mail accounts, and do some virus checking on your computer. 
It’s probably not from her. It’s a fairly common tactic to use random e-mail addresses as the “sender” on spam.
Back when I controlled my own e-mail servers, I would occasionally look through the stuff the spam filters were tossing: some months 95% of it would be “returned” mail to me that I never sent. The mail server wasn’t compromised (although they tried that a lot, too – getting my mail server to forward their stuff); the bad guys just stuck a false (but valid) e-mail name in the headers manually. There’s no protection built into standard internet SMTP mail to prevent that.
If an account was compromised, you’d be getting a LOT more than one a month from it.
Surely you jest.
Surely, crazyjoe, have you heard of PM? Have you tried that?
Surely you have forgotten that the OP expressed curiosity in whether or not others are suffering from the same spam.
Let me know if you get any from IAMTHECOWGODMOO.
Surely I have corersponded with Shirley and surely enough, she denied that those e-mails were purposely sent from her.
But I have seen this happen before, and been victim of it myself, and I thought maybe she could take some protective action to try to keep it from happening more.
Maybe it’s not spam, maybe Shirley is genuinely concerned about your penis length.
We all are.
We had a group discussion about crazyjoe’s size, and decided that someone had to tell him. Shirley got the short stick. (ha!)
How do y’all know that her e-mails are concerning the size of my weenie? I sure as hell haven’t clicked on anything she sends, and it really is just links with random characters, and no subject line on the e-mail.
OMG You’re ALL IN ON IT, AREN’T YOU?
I received a NO SUBJECT e-mail from Shirley a few weeks ago. Even though I suspected she wasn’t actually the sender, I took a chance and opened the message, since I had helped her with a project involving her kids a few years ago and thought she might be requesting my assistance anew. However, the result was similar to what the OP describes – just a suspicious-looking random link that I declined to click before deleting the spam.
In the past I sometimes received spam E-mail sent by…bum dum duuummmm…ME!
That’s right. Somehow I sent spam to myself without realizing it. I must have been sleep typing. 
yes, we all are!
One of us! One of us!
(checks)
Sure, why not.
One of us! One of us!
Those are my most common spam, Nobody. Gmail always catches them. Why would anyone think that I would be more likely to open emails from myself?
Got one today from a friend no subject and a strange sounding link in it (witcherysource.com)
Delete
I bought a car at an online auction a year ago (www.copart.com) and I used a “reseller” to finance it, cost? $400.00 deposit, A year later (I never requested deposit back) the reseller calls asking for $95.00 for the upcoming year. I say No, they say check will be in mail, now a week later, guess what?
no check
Good grief, man, now they are going to do witchery TO YOUR PENIS!
Incidentally, withcerysource was the one I got as well.
What worried me was that if I was getting spam from “myself”, did that mean other people are were getting spam and thinking it was me?
I don’t remember getting any complaints or warnings from my ISP, so hopefully other people didn’t blame me for anything.