>>Hi,
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>>I get a lot of spam email messages. But what surprised my about one I received today is that the sender is myself. And of course the spammer/hacker says he has penetrated my email and demands money.
>>How do they impersonate my email address as a sender?
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>In many email programs you can specify who's the sender. For instance
West Wind Client Tools>
>Look here for sample code:
https://client-tools.west-wind.com/docs/_s9001zxj2.htm. If you change the cSender* properties, you can fool most people. It takes some more steps to hide all your footsteps of course.
Thank you. Another thing that gives this guy/girl away, is that they make a lot of grammatical and spelling errors in the body of the email. But I can't reply to correct their mistakes :)
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