This time, the company has not yet reacted because “There are so many posts circulating, which are not ours, that it is difficult for us to react each time“, explains Julie Nevejan. And to entrust scams like this, there are at least once a month:”Sometimes these are prizes to be won, sometimes these are free tents to win. Now it’s a backpack at 2 euros.“
And if it encourages customers to report these scams to them, the company has decided to create a special phishing page on its site to push people to be even more vigilant.
Increasingly credible scams thanks to artificial intelligence
The fact remains that these scams are increasingly frequent and more and more perfected thanks to artificial intelligence. In any case, this is what Christophe Axen confirms to us, Deputy Director of Computer Crime Unit in Liège, The IT crime of the federal police crime: “Before, we had phishing with the police of the Republic and then signed the general commissioner of Belgium. So we knew. It didn’t hold the road. Now we will arrive at content with the latest logos, with the name of the street, of the last French or Belgian police officer. We will have something very clean, well put together, without spelling mistakes. Or we will voluntarily put it to try to give a certain credibility. “
A new tactic with the “trusted third party”
Difficult therefore not to be fooled today even for the most informed people because the criminals have now added a notion of “trusted third party“, He adds:”The comments of people who testify bring a form of credibility so that people say to themselves: ‘Ah bah yes, that’s okay, it’s not dishonest’. And this notion of trusted third parties, it has appeared more for a few months, I would perhaps say even for a year or two.“
A tactic of criminals which “realize that the victims are only as naive as before. Suddenly, it is necessary to bring an additional element to help that the publication is taken seriously.“The danger of being fooled is therefore all the greater today and it will not improve over time because the criminals are creative.
Some advice
For Christophe Axen, there are therefore three principles to respect: “If it is a very good deal, it is that you have to be wary of it. If it is a notion of emergency, it is also necessary to be wary. Finally, if we say that there is none for everyone, that you have to hurry, it is a way of encouraging people to hurry and therefore not to think.“
The deputy director of the Computer Crime Unit of Liège also encourages the public to report these posts on Facebook but also on Safeonweb.
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