FRAUD – The General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) wants to know more about the origin of these phone calls and is asking for the collaboration of the targeted people
An investigation has been opened by the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) after numerous people reported suspicious phone calls. These came from an operator pretending to be from the Ministry of Energy. A pre-recorded female voice offers, among other things, a solar energy check or solar panels, reports The Parisian.
However, “the State does not canvass,” the DGCCRF insisted. Any solicitation by an operator who claims to belong to the administrative sphere is likely to be fraudulent.” The objective of the investigations is, among other things, to try to determine who is behind these calls. “We will try to understand the operator’s economic model and the type of fraud applied,” explained the DGCCRF, which also intends to verify that these calls are not abusive.
An appeal to the general public
To help, the administration is calling on consumers who have received such phone calls to report them on the Signal Conso platform. It indicates that the majority of telephone numbers used begin with 09 48 15 or 01 62. Despite several laws governing the practice, (…) Read more on 20minutes
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