Online scams generally follow people’s trends and priorities. At the moment, with the decline in the purchasing power of the French, the most common scams relate to fake coupons, fake promotions and fake deals that allow crooks to steal the bank details of victims.
As inflation and the prices of many products continue to rise, the French are increasingly concerned about their purchasing power. Prompt to save a few precious euros, they are thus more attentive to the promotions and deals when shopping. A boon for scammers, reports TF1 News.
In recent months, online scams have changed their face. They are now intended for reduction vouchers or coupons. The crooks generally distribute more or less personalized tips, by email or via social networks. If you rush without checking the reliability of the offer, you will fall into the trap.
Always check the website
Inflation is straining household budgets, so people are looking for coupons, discount vouchers, explains Laurent Amar, co-founder of scam detector France Vrif, TF1 Info. These scammers know how to make sites that are carbon copies of real sites with a disconcerting ease today.
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To protect yourself from such scams, you should never jump on an online offer and always check the address of the website to which the email or publication refers. Also pay attention to travel and holiday scamswhose purpose is as much to steal your bank details as to obtain your personal information in order to carry out identity theft.
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