beware of email scams

The national gendarmerie and Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau warned the public on Friday against false transfer orders transmitted via pirate email addresses.

Gendarmerie investigators, as well as the Paris public prosecutor’s office, call for the greatest vigilance and advise against the payment of invoices which would be sent by email before having checked their validity with the issuer, they write in a press release. Laure Beccuau details the investigation conducted since mid-December by the cybercrime section of the Paris prosecutor’s office after a complaint filed last month in Colmar. The latter denounced a scam by false transfer order committed after the hacking of an email address which made it possible to collect detailed information.

Gendarmerie investigators seized files that ultimately contained more than a thousand active Orange email addresses likely to have been scammed, the prosecution said.

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According to the latter and the gendarmerie, the company Orange has removed the redirections from these mailboxes and has set up a dedicated unit which contacts the customers concerned in order to support them.

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