A banker's vocabulary. Knowledge of services. You'd believe it, if it wasn't a scam. For several days, Internet users on Far from the photos of Brad Pitt in the hospital, we're talking here about thugs pretending to be your bank. And it’s quite successful.
“LCL is calling me. I have an account with them. On the line, a man, around 40-50 years old, who expresses himself very well. He tells me that I have three suspicious transactions, with large amounts, which have just been carried out. After checking, I tell him that I do not see these payments on the application, he replies that this is normal because they have been detected as suspicious,” testifies Sylvain Jalbert in a post. “From the start, I was wary because I am aware of these subjects. As long as I don't give any information to a number that calls me, I protect myself,” adds, with 20 Minutes the AI engineer.
Accurate data
Behind, “he gives me my RIB, my account number, my email address to “prove” that it’s really my bank but I still told myself that it could be a data leak, or something else. But, just in case, I request the cancellation of the operations in question. Following that, I was transferred to “the service that takes care of that”,” the Internet user continues.
“After a minute of waiting, I got another man on the phone. He asks me for the title and amount of the last transaction that appears on my account. Then he asks me the amount in my account. I tell him that he should know, since he is at LCL. His response: “It’s to confirm that it’s really you.” » Fortunately for Sylvain Jalbert, the call ends when he traps his interlocutor with false information. “I said I had 11 euros in my account and he hung up. He realized he couldn't really scam me. »
Winamax, Temu and Amazon as Trojan horses
Unfortunately, this is not the case for other victims of this new scam. “I received a lot of messages privately who didn't dare talk about it publicly but they had the same thing and ended up in my testimony. Like me, they told them that they had three payments reported and always in the same place: Winamax, Temu and Amazon. This is very specific so that they are different scams. »
-That's not the only connection between them. “We were all Free customers at the time of the data leak. Plus, I was still at LCL at that time, so we made the connection. » In October 2024, nearly 19 million accounts were victims of data theft with the names, first names, addresses and even telephone numbers of subscribers stolen. Some 5 million IBANs were also stolen.
Ironically, scammers use this theft to extract money from victims. “They told us that these suspicious payments on these three sites could come from the Free data leak. And to avoid being scammed, you had to transfer your money to another account to change your RIB. And that's the real scam. » Some witnesses claim to have transferred 1,200 euros or 1,099 euros.
Our file to avoid scams
“It’s the protocol [d’avertir pour des virements suspects] what a bank would do,” assure some bankers in the comments of the tweet. But they specify: “A banker will never ask you to transfer money like that. » And give the procedure to follow in the event of a suspicious and more than likely fraudulent call: “You must hang up and call back your bank's customer service, or your advisor, who are more reliable. »
