A “write in” threat pulled down off the Internet prompted the Department of Homeland Security to advise law enforcement of a “low credibility” threat to “malls and Jewish schools” in New York, sources tell ABC News.

The threat, specific to New York, is based on fragmentary information that someone in France is teaching young men to use explosives and encouraging these attacks, sources say.

And federal officials caution that they have sent the reports, despite a lack of credibility, simply to keep local and regional law enforcement informed.

In the bulletin issued today, DHS noted, “This threat is deemed non-credible. The author, possibly located in Argentina, likely provided the threat information to create additional hysteria on the heels of last week’s media coverage of a threat to malls in Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.”

(Source: ABC News)