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

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"

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."

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"

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

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

They also use the name Gabriel Marcil.

Got the same email and found it freaky until I searched and knew it was a scam; b****y scammers.

The name has been changed on this one,
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"

Now it's gabriel.marcil62-outlook.com...same message.

Got one last week too. Reads the same as you everyone else's. I did reply as didn't check here 1st. But not had any emails back. I will delete all in future.

Mine was from "Jean"

I typed -whistoric.net into my browser, a page came up that said the following:

"Unsubscribe My Address
Thanks for your interest in our special email offers.
If you wish not to receive any more special offers from us, please submit your email address below."

There was a box to type into and a button saying 'Unsubscribe'

I did not type my email in as I was unaware I had ever subscribed to such emails and I presume this is yet another scam. The page did have a 'Privacy Policy' and a 'Disclaimer' which were a load of rubbish too!

Just got this today! still doing the rounds

Also got this exact worded email from project-whistoric.net! I did reply but have heard nothing! I like to bait scammers and waste their time !

I just received the same email 29/01/2017 (UK)from Jean project-whistoric.net.

Yes, the same, today 24 january 2017 at 17:04 on my mail adress - but on the end of it, there's no thanks or Jean - it's send from Jennifer help-whistoric.net, what a scam!

Received same exactly worded email on 1/21/17 from gabriel.marcil05-outlook.com

I received this today from disi.yol-outlook.com.

I too got the same message on Xmas day!

Same - received that email today.

BAH.

Glad I looked this up! I've received that email 3 times. I thought it was legit the first time so I gave a short answer, but the next two were deleted, and I haven't been directed to any phishing sites--maybe I'm just lucky. But I NEVER give out ANY personal info.

Also received this email today from - earl145225vaughnopera74-outlook.com

I received the exact email from worksmart-outlook.fr.

Glad I checked it out. That was word for word the email I received! Thanks!

I've just received that exact email this morning. When I put the email address in Google nothing came up. Glad I didn't reply.

I have just received the same email today. Will ignore!

Got the email and send it back, so now I will have to delete. Can they track me because I responded?

No, they cannot track you, but they will send more emails to you, in an attempt to scam you. Therefore, just delete subsequent emails from them.

Got it today. .. when in doubt ask Google if it's a scam. Would have had to be b****y good to get anything out of me... blood from a stone sort of deal. There is surely a Jean rafon on Facebook. .. I feel sorry for them! A long email address unrelated to the name always justifies a bit of research.

Omg! I did answer it, because I did at one time put email address in a book. I will open nothing further.?. How much trouble could I be in. I feel so stupid, I very rarely open anything whose name is not familiar.

You are not in trouble. The scammers will contact you and attempt to scam you, just delete their emails.

Thank you, so far no further contact.

I've just received the exact same email today!

I got this email today. Thanks for having this posted. I was intrigued. But I did not respond.

I don't know if this was just me but after opening this email I received a very strange text message from an unknown, and by the look of it, fake number.

The text message just contained a bunch of random letters and symbols!?

I never replied to the email or number, and I don't even know if they're linked, but after opening the email that's what happened.

I got this email but I didn't reply though.

I got one too, ugh.

Just received, knew it is not real.

Jean Rafon sent me the same email from here: ecommercesmart-outlook.com
Definitely a scam. Thanks!

The email on mine was:
shaun145225deforgeopera74-outlook.com

Thanks for this, I actually thought about responding because what an interesting opening line. And it snuck in past the junk filter with only my address on it.

I've just received the email. Thanks.

PourquoI est-ce-que Jean (a Paris) assumé le person son Anglias / parlé anglais?

I'm not, as you can probably deduce from my poor "CSE" learnt french. Odd that "Jean"'s English grammar seems lacking the usual nuanced variations in delivery that you would normally expect from somebody who's first language is not English. A double-bluff perhaps?

I just received this message today I didn't respond because it seemed fishy. I'm glad I ignored it.

I received thiis email today, I must admit for me it's very believable as I read lots. But I would never put my email inside a book.

So thank you for putting this warning on here otherwise I just might of followed it through.

Viv.

I got this email a couple of weeks ago and now I am inundated with emails.

When I look how to unsubscribe it's always the same email address, so I don't do it. I just delete instead. Can I stop them somehow?

No, but you can flag them as spam or junk, so they are automatically sent to your Junk or Spam folder.

Thanks for the article. I used to live in Paris and I was thinking of asking which book, because I found this highly unlikely. However, thanks to your info, I will delete t.

Thank you very, very much for the warning. I just got the email today in my Outlook box and will delete it. Bud

I got the exact email twice!! Had a feeling it was a scammer.

I'm highly concerned about this e-mail I just received because my employer compromised all of my personal info alone with 30 other peoples personal information via e-mail last week...what can I do about that?