Tag: frauds
CO2 certificates in the “climate laboratory”: Why so many forest projects are frauds
If you save a forest from the chainsaw, you can apply for CO₂ certificates – and sell them for a lot of money to companies that want to offset their…
These tax or training account frauds that force FranceConnect to beef up its security
Since the beginning of August, it is no longer possible to connect to the tax site using your Health Insurance account (Ameli). The announcement mentioning “simple technical maintenance”, shared by…
Ex-Twitter executive accuses company of numerous ‘frauds’
Peiter Zatko, the company’s former director of IT security, denounced a series of bad practices in the social network. He sent a complaint to the SEC, the American stock market…
Means of payment: fewer frauds but larger amounts
The number of means of payment fraud fell by 3.8% in 2021, but the average amount of damage increased by around 14% to 166 euros, the Banque de France noted…
The European Court of Auditors denounces numerous frauds in the common agricultural policy
On paper, everything is fine, or almost. In reality, frauds against the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the largest item of expenditure in the European Union (EU) budget, are far more…
PS5: Abandoned or one of the biggest frauds in video games
Abandoned, the survival horror developed by Blue Box, seems to have been abandoned. While the PlayStation exclusivity was teased in August 2021 on the PlayStation-Blog directly, it seemed to have…
Presidential: these comical frauds spotted during the first round
Alexis Delafointaine 4:51 p.m., April 15, 2022modified to 7:15 p.m., April 15, 2022 The Constitutional Council published this week the official statement of the results of the first round of…
The list of online identity frauds
Since the start of the pandemic, companies have been forced to move their operations online; a real opportunity for hackers, scammers and other fraudsters. One would have thought that with…