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A Scammer Contacted Me Through My Details On Medium: PART- 1

How Did He Get My Email Address? Scammers Stealing Personal Info on Medium?

Beware of Scammers on Medium

Sumit Kumar
SCAM UNIVERSITY
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6 min readOct 22, 2021

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A Scammer Contacted Me Through My Details On Medium: PART- 1
A Scammer Contacted Me Through My Details On Medium: PART- 1

Hi Friend.

How are you? I know this message may come to you as a surprise. I am Caitriona O’Sullivan, From the U.S. I saw your profile on medium.com. I picked up interest. I have something very important to share with you. Please kindly get back to me for more discussion. Have a wonderful day and stay safe, waiting for your urgent reply.

Regards,

Caitriona O’Sullivan.

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I received this email a few days ago.

Typically, I don’t even look at such emails, but the email mentioned Medium.com — someone from Medium, a fellow writer or reader, got my email address from the site, and wants to make contact, I thought.

I don’t use my p**mail email address anywhere else besides Medium, and Medium hardly looks like the kind of platform where scammers would be hunting for personal information. I did not suspect much.

Recently Medium introduced this feature of letting your subscribers reply to your article directly from their email. I opted in, and maybe this is where this person got my email address. Nothing suspicious.

I sent a very brief reply :

ME:

Hi Caitriona,

What can I do for you?

Regards,

Summit

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I received this in my inbox the next day :

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SCAMMER :

Greetings, Summit Kumar.

PLEASE KINDLY READ THIS EMAIL VERY CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND.

Thanks for your Email. How are you doing? Hope great?. I am excited to receive your Email. Like I told you in my previous message. I have something very important to share with you. I’m Sgt Caitrìona O’Sullivan. a Military Nurse. From the U.S. I’m 35 years old. I am from Charlotte, North Carolina, Considers Portland Oregon. I graduated

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Scam University does not teach you how to scam; it teaches you how to protect yourself from scams by featuring stories educating you on the latest scams online.

Sumit Kumar
Sumit Kumar

Written by Sumit Kumar

Reader, Thinker, Philosopher, Content Creator, Researcher and wannabe Writer. I am a noob of everything and expert of somethings.

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