On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Alex wrote:

Hi,

I've received a handful of messages that appear to be facebook
notifications, but fail SPF. They otherwise look completely legit -
links to profiles, only URLs to facebook.com and CDN caching sites,
and even appears to have been routed through facebook's outgoing mail.

All of that could be faked, but it would mean the payload is in the
actual facebook profiles themselves. Has anyone else found this to be
the case?

http://pastebin.com/jE8G5LXJ

Thanks,
Alex

That's because it's a forwarded message. That message was originally sent from
FB to "<tom.wil...@cox.net>" and it looks like he's got his '@cox.net' account
forwarded to "<tom.wil...@example.com>" (for what ever '@example.com' should really be).

So that explicit forward breaks the SPF chain, thus triggering that SPF fail.
The valid DKIM signature indicates that the message is legit.


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