You may have received an SMS mentioning a problem with your vehicle’s Crit’air sticker: ignore it, this is an attempt to phishing.
A new phishing campaign targets the French. This time, it’s a Crit’Air sticker scam aimed at recovering your bank details.
The Crit’Air thumbnail, a new phishing technique
On Twitter, a user explains that he received a fraudulent SMS. “ Our agents have found that you did not have the regulatory sticker, please retrieve it via: https://critair-circulation.fr “, reads the message. Of course, the link does not refer at all to the legitimate site, whose real address is www.certificat-air.gouv.fr.
Once the victim enters the fake site, he sees a text announcing that the ” Crit’Air sticker is mandatory “, as the official page maintained by the government could do. A close deadline is then brandished as a threat: if the order of the sticker is not carried out before this ultimatum, the target supposedly exposes himself to fines.
Information such as license plate number, first and last name, address and telephone number of the person are then requested. Then comes the time to pay the sum of 2.95 euros by entering your bank details. And you run the risk of having more than 2.95 euros extorted from you since the objective of the maneuver is above all to recover your bank details.
Netflix, the CPF, Améli also concerned by phishing
This kind of phishing-based scams have been popular for many years, but they tend to increase lately. In recent days, phishing attempts have played on the threat of Netflix account suspension to harvest users’ personal information.
One of the most recurrent scams is related to the CPF (personal training account). Hackers have long exploited this vein and continue to do so, but this manipulation is now well known as it has been exploited, to the point of becoming a meme. And a few months ago, it was the Ameli health insurance site that was targeted by a phishing campaign.
Source : Raphael Chenol
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