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"My name is Jean Rafon, I'm from France" Email Scam

My name is Jean Rafon, Im from France Email Scam

Recipients of the email message below with the subject: "I found your email," which the sender claims his/her name is Jean Rafon and he/she is from France, should delete it. The email is message is another scam created by online scammers to trick curious potential victims into contacting them. If potential victims contact the scammers, they will attempt to trick or scam them into, sending money, personal information, visiting phishing websites that steal online account credentials or financial information, or visiting malicious websites that will infect their computers or mobile devices with malware.

The "My name is Jean Rafon, I'm from France" Email Scam

Date: December 9, 2016 at 11:40:46 AM PST
Subject: Automatic reply: I found your email

Hi there

My name is Jean Rafon, I'm from France.

Last week i bought an old book from street here in Paris and i found your email inside of it, i'm curious to know if this is a real person, and what relate you with this book!

Looking forward to hearing from you! Thanks

Jean

Online users who have already responded to the fake email message, are asked not to follow any instructions in subsequent email messages sent by the scammers; they should just delete them instead.

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Dec 8, 2017 at 10:32 AM by
"My name is Jean Rafon, I'm from France" Email Scam
an anonymous user from: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Here is another scam:

"My name is Sandrine Bonnaire, I'm from France.

Last week I Bought an old book from street here in Paris and I found your email inside of it, i'm curious to know if this is a real person,
and what relate you with this book!

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thanks"

Delete

Mar 3, 2017 at 1:20 AM by
"My name is Jean Rafon, I'm from France" Email Scam
an anonymous user from: San Jose, California, United States

Hi, here's the version I just received... from amoor-ammorty-outlook.com:

"Hello there,

I'm Jimmy from Germany Berlin excatly, i'm an IT technicians and I just got some of old MAC laptops from US and I found this email in one of them, for that i'm curios about if it's still work and how it get here, please let me now about you if you receive this email.

Best regards."

Delete

Feb 19, 2017 at 6:03 PM by
"My name is Jean Rafon, I'm from France" Email Scam
an anonymous user from: Coldwater, Michigan, United States

I just got this email. I knew it was bull, but wanted to make others aware of this name with the same game.

"I Found Your Email

GM
gabriel Marcil gabriel.marcil57-outlook.com

HI there

My name is Gabriel Marcil, I'm from France.

Last week I Bought an old book from street here in Paris and I found your email inside of it, i'm curious to know if this is a real person,
and what relate you with this book!

Looking forward to hearing from you! Thanks

Gabriel"

Delete

Feb 19, 2017 at 12:28 AM by
"My name is Jean Rafon, I'm from France" Email Scam
an anonymous user from: San Jose, California, United States

Same name sent in an email February 12,2017 . Claiming he found my email in a book in France !

Delete

Feb 19, 2017 at 12:27 AM by
"My name is Jean Rafon, I'm from France" Email Scam
an anonymous user from: San Jose, California, United States

Same email sent to me under the same name on February 12, 2017.

Delete

Feb 13, 2017 at 1:44 PM by
"My name is Jean Rafon, I'm from France" Email Scam
an anonymous user from: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

They also use the name Gabriel Marcil.

Delete

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