While the health pass is mandatory to be able to access bars, restaurants or cultural places, scams around this precious document are multiplying on social networks.

In recent days, fraudsters pretending to be the national police have asked to send, by email, a copy of their health pass as well as an identity document.

Internet users have reported having received an email similar to an official letter from the national police, logo in support, telling them "that an investigation of suspected fraud to the health pass and use of health pass without owning it" , was going to be brought against them.

Mdr it starts.

It adapts quickly say so.

And it takes people really for idiots that smokes me.

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- Max.

(@MaximeHaes) September 10, 2021

In this email, the fake police officers inform the Internet user that his health pass could have been used fraudulently.

They then demand that they be transferred "several copies of the valid health pass, the front and back photo of the identity card" of the health pass holder, as well as a selfie on which he must brandish his identity card ... The email also recalls the penalty incurred "for forgery or use of forgery", which can go up to three years in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros, according to article 441-1 of the Penal Code.

A scam aimed at recovering and reselling as many health passes as possible

This is of course a scam aimed at recovering and reselling as many health passes as possible. The national police launched, this Friday, an alert on social networks against this phishing attempt, intended to illegally recover the data of Internet users. “False emails spoofing @ PoliceNationale have been reported to us concerning a false fraud of the health pass. These fake emails aim to steal your personal data and carry out extortion. Do not respond and report on https://signal-spam.fr ”, tweeted the account of the national police.

[#ContreLesArnaques] ⚠️ Fraudulent emails in the name of the #PoliceNationale concerning an investigation of suspected fraud in the #PassSanitaire are circulating.


❌ Do not respond to these fake emails


✅ Report #Pharos on https://t.co/cC9MlFxtoq pic.twitter.com/mvQaEYc5RS

- National Police (@PoliceNationale) September 10, 2021

The National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (Cnil) also alerted to this scam, offering Internet users to report if they received the fraudulent email, and especially not to respond to this type of email, and never to pass on their health pass.

Justice

Seine-Saint-Denis: A juicy traffic of fake health passes on Snapchat dismantled in Villepinte

Miscellaneous

Val-de-Marne: A pharmacist suspected of trafficking in fake health passes arrested

  • Police

  • By the Web

  • Social networks

  • Phishing

  • Internet

  • Coronavirus

  • Health pass

  • Scam

  • E-mail