CAF strengthen the tracking of social assistance scams

The ingenuity of benefit fraudsters is limitless. Beyond the classic cheating consisting of minimizing one’s resources or declaring oneself a single parent when one lives as a couple, the family allowance funds (CAF) are increasingly confronted with complex scams, in organized gangs.

For example, European networks have not hesitated to pay small contributions to the Urssaf to make believe in a professional activity in France, in reality fictitious, in order to receive very real social aid. Other scammers, via “phishing” operations – false e-mails sent imitating the CAF logo – have succeeded in recovering the identifiers of beneficiaries, then modifying their bank details (RIB) to collect the benefits at their square.

To fight against these sophisticated frauds, the CAFs have created the national service for the fight against high-stakes fraud, staffed with 30 expert controllers. With promising first results:On the fraud…