A new kind of scam is circulating in French mailboxes.

Not the mailboxes, but the physical boxes where our mail is deposited.

And this scam takes the form of a delivery notice from La Poste, reports

Capital

.

This is a fraudulent notice aimed at stealing the bank details of victims without them realizing it.

But these phishing techniques (or phishing) are usually done online through fake websites, emails or sometimes text messages.

The scam materialized in a physical document is much rarer.

Oh it looks like a nice scam on the back of La Posre (@lisalaposte how do you do it?. Received in my box. Very easy to believe it and end up giving your credit card info! pic.twitter.com/5V6WlL43wI

— Flavio Perez (@flablog) August 28, 2022

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Victims redirected to a fraudulent site

Like any delivery notice, the fraudulent document indicates that a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt could not be delivered.

The victim is invited to go to the La Poste site to reschedule a delivery.

The scam was brilliantly set up: in addition to the delivery notice perfectly imitating a real one, the link and the QR code refer to the official laposte.fr site.

But immediately afterwards, the victim is redirected to another site, this one fraudulent, whose URL is laposteaide.fr.

This is where she is prompted to enter her bank details.

In addition to the fact that a payment is not necessary to recover a registered mail, we can identify the scam because the mail tracking number is the same as that given as an example by La Poste on its site: 6Q01929938641.

According to the

Journal du Geek

, the scammers have exploited a flaw in the official site to set up this redirection from the official site.

The fraudulent site has since been deactivated.

Most of the victims of this new scam live in Montpellier (Hérault), but there is no doubt that the scam will spread everywhere in France in the coming months.

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