The last I heard, Google relied on spam filters for this.

Supposedly, people have been fired after being falsely accused of harassment. The scam works as follows:

Send a message to bob@gappsdomain.com and notavictim at the same domain. Arrange for the headers to be “from” bob. Now, notavictim reports Bob to HR. If the google admin is competent, they look at the headers, and note that Bob didn’t send the email. (Not sure if they catch the offender or not.)

If they’re incompetent, they see the message in Bob’s from box, and recommend he be fired.

This is a feature that enables dubious workflows, where Bob configures spam bots to bother his coworkers, but wants those messages to be auto filed in his sent box.

I didn’t think it worked when spoofing unrelated domains like Google though. That’s just dumb. Maybe the attacker had the author’s IMAP gateway password and moved the message into the inbox?