Have you recently received a suspicious email from Société Générale or Crédit Mutuel? Warning: this may be a scam. Since the beginning of the month, scammers have been posing as these famous French banks with the aim of stealing your banking data, warns Numerama .
A security breach
To do this, the usurpers send an email in which a security flaw is mentioned. To secure their account, recipients of the email are invited to click on the link it contains. They are then sent to the website of the banking establishment in question and encouraged to connect to their online space via double authentication. They must then provide their personal and banking information in order to be able to contact an advisor.
Except that this supposedly secure page is in fact a fake cloned site. Logos, presentation, colors… Every detail has been thought out by the scammers to try to deceive their victims. Their goal? Recover their banking data. Our colleagues specify that once the data is entered, the page automatically sends Internet users to the real sites of the banking establishments to limit the risk of suspicion.
Call for vigilance
People who may have received this email should be particularly vigilant. First of all, they are advised to check the sender’s email address which in the case of Société Générale is: “hotam-ovdim”. If they clicked on the link embedded in the email, they need to carefully analyze the domain name. And for good reason: if it is a scam, the latter will necessarily be suspicious. The fake site may, for example, be hosted in a foreign country, in which case it will not end with “fr”.
If in doubt, customers are invited to ignore these emails and connect directly to their customer area. They can also contact their banking advisor to confirm that they are indeed experiencing a phishing attempt.
