It has become a real plague.
Vishing scams are booming in France.
This term, a contraction of “voice” (voice) and “phishing” (phishing) designates a new scam by telephone, reports
Le Parisien
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In a call of a few minutes, the scammers manage to siphon the bank account of the victims.
This Thursday, the Cybermalveillance platform.
govt warned the French against this new practice.
In six months, no less than 1,500 people have been abused in this way.
A scam based on the feeling of urgency
To achieve their ends, the scammers first buy the details of future victims on the darknet.
They then call them pretending to be a bank adviser very familiar with their file, and who has just spotted fraudulent transactions on their account.
In the name of the urgency of the situation, even if it means circumventing security devices such as double authentication, the fake bank adviser puts the victim in trust, steals the identifiers of his bank account and steals its contents.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Michel Drucker stolen
The very profitable scam.
"Each victim is robbed between a few thousand and tens of thousands of euros," says Jean-Jacques Latour, director of cybersecurity expertise at Cybermalveillance.
govt.
And everyone gets tricked: from well-informed young workers to more fragile people, including personalities like Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Michel Drucker.
To be even more effective, scammers sometimes manage to imitate the bank's telephone number using specific software.
A fraudulent call center has also recently been dismantled by Europol.
All banks are affected by the phenomenon and in most cases refuse to reimburse the victim.
Caution is therefore all the more appropriate.
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