Maud Descamps, edited by Manon Fossat 10:56 a.m., January 19, 2022

For months, scams related to the Personal Training Account (CPF) have been on the rise.

This fall, the government had promised to tackle it, but the measures are still pending.

For the time being, the only lever remains the labeling of training, compulsory since January 1st.

"Warning, you will lose your CPF rights, claim your training".

Who has never received this SMS, this email or even a call to use your personal training account?

This aggressive canvassing is also illegal and behind this scam, fake companies are created for the occasion.

In the fall, the government had promised to tackle it, but the legal framework is still pending.

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"This is no longer possible"

With 2.3 billion euros in funding, the professional training account indeed attracts a certain number of desires. This is what Laurent Durin, from the Caisse des dépôts et de consignation, responsible for compensating users who are victims of scams, observes. "Today on average, we have about 40,000 training purchases per week and we receive around a hundred reports. And of these 100 reports, we have about thirty people who have purchased training. So we recredited,” he explains.

If the scams are ultimately not so numerous, cold calling is particularly disturbing, we recognize.

There is an urgent need to ban it, believes majority MP Catherine Fabre.

"It is no longer possible. It must be prevented. It must be prohibited. Either by law or by regulation. But in any case, we have to find a solution," he called. -she.

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In the meantime, other levers have been activated to limit scams.

Since January 1, training must be labeled.

For the moment, 28,000 have been out of 35,000 in total.

And according to our information, the Ministry of Labor is working closely with the DGCCRF, the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control to, it is said, tighten the noose around scammers.