If you are customers of Société Générale, Crédit Agricole or Crédit Mutuel, be careful when checking your emails. Since the beginning of November, a wave of “phishing” has been underway.
Malicious people impersonate these banks, asking customers to provide their banking details and personal information.
According to Numerama, the emails invite customers to click on a link redirecting them to a fake, larger-than-life site where this sensitive information must be provided. The media specializing in digital news highlights, for the scam targeting Société Générale, that the criminals went so far as to add an animation with the bank's logo and integrate this logo on the tab of the web page .
Once the information has been communicated, the site indicates that a bank advisor will come back to the customer, and redirect them to… the real Société Générale site. Still according to Numerama, various elements suggest that the scams targeting the three banks use the same server or the same tools.
The sender is not your bank
To avoid being fooled by these “phishing” campaigns, the CNIL (National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties) obviously recommends not opening these emails, and if necessary, above all not clicking on any link or any attachment.
You can also report attempted theft on the dedicated government platform by clicking here, and obtain advice on another official site: cybermalveillance.gouv.fr. When you receive an email from your bank, if in doubt, log in directly to your account via the bank's secure application or website.
To spot this specific scam, Numerama also adds that the sender of the email is of course not your bank but “hotam-ovdim”, and that the geographic domain of the site to which it refers is Spanish.
