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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Neither att.net or sbcglobal.net or swbell.net or pacbell.net have SPF records … if they did, that would help filter out such messages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Outages [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Neil Ticktin via Outages<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 12, 2016 12:42 PM<br><b>To:</b> Outages@outages.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [outages] ATT, SBC, PacBell - spam storm?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>While not really an "outage" -- is anyone seeing a mass of emails this morning from users with accounts from AT&T, SBC Global, PacBell and other related providers? These emails often have a format that looks like the below (redacted info so that it doesn't look like spam to filters).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div style='margin-left:6.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>[redacted link to google which is a redirect to a page about weight loss]</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-left:6.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Sent from my iPad</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Begin forwarded message:</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>> the more light you pour upon it, the more it will One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interest.</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>> From: [redacted user name of person I know] -[redacted email of someone I know]@att.net-</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2016 08:04:00 +0000</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>> To: Suzie Talianis</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>> Subject: Fw(2): [redacted name I know] pg</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> > Mail Code: cndajv</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div style='margin-left:6.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:6.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>I'm seeing this from a number of users this morning on AT&T, SBC Global, PacBell and others -- and it's clear that someone has access to their address books, but they are not sending from their accounts when you look at the headers.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:6.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:6.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Anyone else seeing this? Any thoughts on what these users can do to not be spoofed on accounts with these major services?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:6.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:6.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:6.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:6.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Neil<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:6.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>