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Old 07-01-2025, 08:29 AM
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Default Scam emails

In the last week, I have received three scam emails. They have all been in French and they asked me to click on a link in the body of the email. I don't speak French so I would have no idea what they meant if I didn't have Google translate.

One was for Paypal, one was for a traffic ticket (I haven't driven in France in 20 plus years), and one was telling me that my credit card was being deactivated.

I did not click on any of the links!!!!

When I was working, my company would send out a couple of fake phishing emails a month to all of the employees to see if we would click on it. I did it once and I got a call from IT telling me not to do that. Since then, I don't click on any links in emails. If I am unsure, I call the company and verify that it is legitimate.

Has anyone else gotten any scam emails in French?

Does anyone know what happens if someone clicks on the link?