Lotus Notes

Mixed Up Message Headers - To in FROM

Recently one of our executives received an odd email message. Initial review of the message shown that her name was in the FROM field, an external recipient was in the TO field, the subject was something like "Request Update: Original Meeting Subject" and to top it off, it shown up as unread in her Inbox.

Initial analysis suggested that the message was a spam or spoofed message, but the subject was deceiving. OK, if that were so, then someone has been infected with a virus or spam-bot. Not good. This required further investigation.