>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>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?
>>
>>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.
>
>The guy even left the report-spam address of his provider :browslap:... press ctrl+u and read, how hard can it be?
>
>The whole schema sounds like the lazy montenegrin virus: "your machine is now, ahem, infected. Please format your system disk for us".

Anyway, it seems like they manage to fool someone.