The national gendarmerie and the Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau warned the public on Friday January 21 against false transfer orders transmitted via hacked email addresses.
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“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 carried out 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 investigatorsseized files that ultimately contained more than a thousand active Orange email addresses that may have been scammed“, specifies the parquet floor. According to the latter and the gendarmerie, the company Orange has “removed the redirections from these mailboxes and set up a dedicated unit which contacts the customers concerned in order to support them.»