Something is not right in the land of Gmail. 

Numerous account holders woke up Sunday morning to discover a raft of spam emails sitting in their sent folders, and that even after changing their passwords the emails kept going out. At least some of these people, including a Mashable editor, had two-factor authentication enabled on their accounts. 

"My email account has sent out 3 spam emails in the past hour to a list of about 10 addresses that I don’t recongnize," read an April 21 post to a Google Help Forum. "I changed my password immediately after the first one, but then it happened again 2 more times."

As to the email going out? It's vey much the definition of spam.

"The subject of the emails is weight loss and growth supplements for men advertisements," read the same Google Help Forum post. "I have reported them as spam. Please help, what else can I do to ensure my account isn’t compromised??"

Many people replied to the post saying the same thing was happening to them. 

"[My] account is totaly secure with 2 factor authetication and the sent by telus.com messages are still being sent," read one such reply. "[Fix] your shit google."

So what's going on here? We reached out to Google for comment, but received no response as of press time. However, a Google employee, Seth Vargo, tweeted in reply to one such complaint that the company's "engineering teams are aware of this and are working on a resolution :)"

One thing the sent spam emails seem to have in common, other than the fact that they're all garbage, is that many appear to be sent "via telus.com." TELUS is a Canadian telecommunications company, and it's not clear what role it plays in this mess. 

We also reached out to TELUS for comment, but have received no response as of press time. 

Regardless of just what exactly is going on, however, one thing is undeniably clear: This is a mess, and Google needs to fix it. Quickly.