Faced with this Christmas scam, the Orne gendarmes are alerting

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Purchases are increasing in stores and on the internet in anticipation of Christmas. In this context, fraud attempts may be more frequent.

This is what the Orne gendarmerie recalled, Sunday December 8, 2024in a publication on his Facebook page.

SMS scams

“You do your Christmas shopping on the internet (or not) and you receive text messages asking you to confirm your contact details personal data recorded on online shopping sites by clicking on a link, under penalty of a fine. This is of course only an attempted fraud,” recalls the gendarmerie.

The police inform users that'you should not respond to these text messagesdo not click on the links and remember to block the sender.

To report these fraudulent SMS messages, residents are invited to use the 33700 platform.

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