[outages] ATT, SBC, PacBell - spam storm?

[Neil Ticktin]

Hi all,

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).

     [redacted link to google which is a redirect to a page about weight
loss]

      Sent from my iPad
      Begin forwarded message:

      > 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.
      >
      > From: [redacted user name of person I know] -[redacted email of
someone I know]@att.net-
      > Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2016 08:04:00 +0000
      > To: Suzie Talianis
      > Subject: Fw(2): [redacted name I know] pg
      >
     > Mail Code: cndajv

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.

Anyone else seeing this?  Any thoughts on what these users can do to not be
spoofed on accounts with these major services?

Thanks!

Neil
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