Curious email addresses appearing in mail

Hi, after sending an email today that was received properly by the recipient, I noticed that in her response, her email address showed up in the cc: field as a mac.com email address, and it is not.  I never sent an email to the person at an incorrect mac.com address.  When searching for the mystery address in my mail files, a handful of other random emails showed up with the incorrect mac.com email address in one of the fields.  Just a little concerned that there is some kind of virus and want to make sure I'm not emailing to someone else.  All of the emails affected also include another co-worker who was copied on the emails, so perhaps it is an issue with his computer?  Help! 

I just looked in the User/Library/Mail/V2 folder, and tracked down this folder.  Digging down several levels into the files for this account and folder I found two sub-folders called "Messages" which contained a total of 774 (mostly) .emlx files.  In three cases there were a pair of files with the same number, one with an .emlxpart extension and the other with a partial.emlx extension -- if I assume that pair corresponds to the same email, this it appears there are 771 messages on local disk.  And Mail refuses to display 71 of them? 
I'm doing a backup with MailSteward to see what it makes of these files.

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