Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
Recipients of the email message below, which the sender claims his/her name is Gabriel Marcil 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.
From: gabriel marcil gabriel.marcil68@outlook.comHi thereMy 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! ThanksGabrie
From: gabriel marcil gabriel.marcil68@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
Gabrie
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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I responded to his email and gave him my name. Kind of spocked about it.
Be careful next time, because the scammer will contact you in an attempt to trick you into sending him/her money and/or more personal information.
