A scam already known to some motorists is resurfacing. By making you believe that your Crit’Air sticker is not up to date, the scammers are trying to recover your bank details.
We already warned you a month ago, but this scam continues to spread via SMS: the Crit’Air sticker is the new target of scammers. Or rather their hook: under cover of an SMS telling you that you are not in good standing, the riffraff try to deceive you.
After a first salvo of messages at the end of September which invited you to change the sticker on the windshield of your car, and which classifies it according to its degree of pollution, certain users have received the following message in recent days: Our agents have found that your vehicle did not have the Crit’Air 2022 regulatory sticker. Please retrieve it under penalty of fine within the next 48 hours on the attached link: https://critair-france.org. Many Internet users report similar messages received in recent days. The scam is particularly well put together, the thieves seeking to reproduce the addresses of sites as realistically as possible to deceive the vigilance of motorists.
Get your hands on your bank account
The goal of the deception: to recover your banking information by making you order the sticker at the price of 2.95 eurosas reported Capital. Once this is done, the trap closes and the crooks only have to use your bank account.
On the official website certificate-air.gouv.frthe government is also sending the following message: Beware of scams: the minister’s official Crit’Air website does not send SMS messages to users to buy vignettes. Be vigilant and make sure you are on the correct address of the official site, namely https://www.certificat-air.gouv.fr/. So, if you receive a Crit’Air SMS, the best thing to do is to report it directly to 33700. You can also get information in the Security section of your bank’s website.
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As a reminder, the Crit’Air sticker will be compulsory by 2025, for motorists driving in the 43 towns with more than 150,000 inhabitants who have set up a Low Emissions Zone.