For fear of shortages or wish not to leave your home, perhaps you plan to buy masks on the internet for the deconfinement, which should start on Monday. But a few days before the deadline, be careful: scams abound online. Europe 1 has received the advice of Loïc Tanguy, director of cabinet in the general direction of the repression of the frauds, of which about thirty cyber-investigators track down the suspicious details while posing as ordinary consumers.
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"Obviously rave comments"
First point of vigilance: good opinions, by themselves, are not necessarily a guarantee of seriousness. "We had an example of a site which had been created at the beginning of May, and for which there were comments which dated back to mid-April, obviously rave, on the quality of the products which had been delivered", begins Loïc Tanguy.
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"We can also have sites that announce to you each time that there are eight people on the page and that there are eight products in stock: that is generally a misleading practice", continues the director of cabinet. "You can also have far-fetched price reduction announcements. It's a whole bunch of clues that can lead investigators to investigate further. If they do, they can buy products, and then if there are a deception, we transmit the information to justice. "
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An official list available online
If you have any doubt, the list of sellers who have passed the filtration tests and who can therefore claim the official logo of a masked face on a blue white red background, is available on the website of the Directorate General of Companies. Misleading commercial practices, punishable by a year in prison and a million and a half euros fine, can be reported on the fraud repression site.