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

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 :

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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…