Receiving emails that are not meant for me

[loren]

For the past few months, I've been receiving emails that are addressed to a
woman I know casually. Many were sent to her by her sister and some by
others. I am not appearing as a cc , nor does the sender or recipient have
any reason to send them to me. Today I recieved an email from this woman's
daugher. Her daughter was shocked to get a reply from me because she didn't
send it to me. She says she sent it only to her mother. MY NAME APPEARS
NOWHERE IN THE HEADER. Is it possible that emails recieved by this woman are
copied/redirected to me via a trojan or other means? I certainly didn't
knowing send her anything like that, nor have any interest in doing so. It
only happens with emails sent by others to her that somehow get re-routed to
me.

I'm completly mystified. Are there any programs that I should suggest to her
to run to identify and remove the offending virus/trojan/bot or whatever is
doing it?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Have you looked at the complete message header in the Option dialog?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[loren]

yes I have and this is what it shows:

Have you looked at the complete message header in the Option dialog?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[loren]

yes I have. I tried to copy/paste it here but the reply box doesn't allow
pasting?
It's to cryptic and long to type manually. Is there a way to get it into
this reply?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I don't know of any problem with copying and pasting in the web forum interface.

In any case, what's important is for you to look at it and see where your address shows up. You might want to share that information with the sender.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[loren]

I don't know why I couldn't do it before but now copy/paste works. The person
who'se pc seems to be the recipient of emails that are apparently passed on
to me automatically is an elderly woman who has no idea about headers. I
know this is not necesarily an outlook technical problem but I am hoping that
one of you experts has some ideas I can give her to stop her ghost emails.

This is the header on an email that I recieved from her daughter that was
not sent to me. I am neither Heidi or Betsky: (do all the strange characters
indicate that she has some kind of trojan or virus?)


Received: from smtp112.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.93])
by rwcrmxc20.comcast.net (rwcrmxc20) with SMTP
id <20060917134427r2000c6btge>; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:44:28 +0000
X-Originating-IP: [68.142.229.93]
Received: (qmail 3308 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2006 13:44:27 -0000
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net;

h=Received:Message-ID:From:To:Subjectate:MIME-Version:Content-Type:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:X-MimeOLE;

b=otB+4jchm9gTtIL5ImjL7BfUkxN6jMPHKU3EEqyS1SJgKjq3u9Mr6FC1E5gkVGP8PoDStC03lVSZ7faezgh0NPwVoCU33o6ZfZKyaBURheEkUIEq7fy7qFGiVKDu3+eHdNnKfDkOT8Bn3p8U9nbhDLvMf3I3Sqnc+bZC8Q6avWc= ;
Received: from unknown (HELO D9XB0021)
([email protected]@69.37.24.136 with login)
by smtp112.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Sep 2006 13:44:08 -0000
Message-ID: <000001c6da5f$559c1b00$6501a8c0@D9XB0021>
From: "(e-mail address removed)" <[email protected]>
To: "Heidi Mullen" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: Pictures from Dan & Irene's wedding
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:40:43 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0014_01C6DA3D.58567880"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962