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How does this kind of spam happen? - 12-31-2010, 01:37 PM


You'd think that AT&T wouldn't do something like this on purpose, or do they farm out their advertisements? There were 64 of these today and about as many yesterday.

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It is probably not AT&T!

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12-31-2010, 03:55 PM


The first one I opened had official looking advertisement and logo but now it only has a link which I didn't open. The pictures aren't coming up.
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The e-mail address brings up AT$T's official site
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12-31-2010, 04:03 PM


There were about a hundred more in the spam folder.
Their offices are closed for the holidays though.
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12-31-2010, 04:10 PM


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The first one I opened had official looking advertisement and logo but now it only has a link which I didn't open. The pictures aren't coming up.
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The e-mail address brings up AT$T's official site
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There were about a hundred more in the spam folder.
Their offices are closed for the holidays though.
This is what happens when you hit "Reply" too many times!

It could be that somebody's email server is going crazy and needs to be reset. Don't click on the links, though. It could be someone impersonating AT&T.
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