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  • Door-to-door or by email, the inhabitants of Loire-Atlantique are exposed to various scams.

  • The warnings follow one another in recent days.

Be careful who you open your door to.

This message is spreading all over the place in Nantes and Loire-Atlantique in recent days.

While "trickery theft" is now a well-known technique, especially among the elderly, the Christmas period seems even more conducive to abuse the generosity of the inhabitants.

“Direct sellers, claiming to be mandated by the city of Nantes, come to the homes of Nantes residents to sell them calendars, alerting the city for example.

The town hall wishes to warn the population against these practices and specifies that no company or person has been assigned to the inhabitants for the sale of calendars.

"In Rezé, vigilance is also required in the Town Hall district, after" spokespersons for imaginary charities "or other attempted scams were reported.

While the health crisis has suspended some collection operations, some criminals are taking advantage of the fact that the way is clear.

In Loroux-Bottereau, for example, watch out for fake firefighters knocking on your door.

“We learn that ill-intentioned people, in civilian clothes, pass themselves off as firefighters (…) and offer calendars (kittens, dogs, etc…).

Don't be fooled by this scam!

The Loroux-Bottereau firefighters are not going door to door this year, to comply with the government's containment measures.

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A false "inter-municipal mutual" in Châteaubriant

But the crooks also act by email with sometimes very convincing arguments.

In Châteaubriant and the surrounding area, residents were asked to subscribe to an offer of "inter-municipal mutual insurance", as part of "a deliberation allegedly voted by the community council in November 2020", writes the community on Wednesday.

Here again, beware of the trap… "Residents are asked not to follow up on any requests they receive from this company and to inform the Châteaubriant-Derval Community of Communes by email as well as the Management. General Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) "

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