Re: Weird Email

Thanks for the suggestion. I think that we've figured out what happened.
There was a class in our training room last week and after thinking about it
for a while we thought to go check those machines. The employee in question
left a machine logged in under his own ID, and it appears that someone
spotted that and decided to sent the message as a joke. So we feel
comfortable that the how has been solved.

Now comes the who. The message that was sent sounded very ominous and
caused a number of people to expend time and effort trying to figure out
what happened. Fortunately, the machine that we think was used to send the
message sits in a card access controlled room. Apparently, someone doesn't
understand that card access systems store door history. That person has a
surprise coming.

No one will get fired over this, but someone will probably be having an
uncomfortable conversation with a supervisor in the very near future.

--Tom

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" <outlookmvp@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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did you review the message header and the smtp or exchange server logs?
this will show if it came from inside the network.

FWIW, my bet is a spammer or exploit and it came from outside the network.

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"Thomas M." <NoEmailReplies@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Outlook 2007

We have a weird situation with one of my co-workers. He received a
message this morning that has his name in both the To and From fields.
He maintains that he did NOT send the message to himself. The message
includes the names of other people who work for my employer, but some of
the names are misspelled. There are also a number of other misspelled
words in the email, as if someone typed it quickly or if the composer of
the message was not a native English speaker.

It would be easy to think that someone is playing a joke on him.
However, my office sits behind two card access doors to which we control
the access. According to the creation date and time on the email it was
created and sent at a time when multiple people where in the room, and
all report that no one was sitting at that station. Furthermore, it is
very unlikely in my opinion that anyone broke his email password in order
to play a joke on him because where I work people get fired for that kind
of thing.

We thought that maybe someone had hacked his machine, but this one
message is the only suspicious message that has gone out from his
account, and he has had no other anomalous things happen on this machine.

Proceeding on the idea that everyone is telling that truth and that no
one is lying to cover themselves on a joke, any ideas as to how this
might have happened, or how to go about finding out how this happened?

--Tom



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