By akademiotoelektronik, 12/03/2022

Cybercrime: explosion of identity theft of physical stores

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the essential The monthly barometer on cyber-scams carried out by the start-up France Verif warns of a new type of scam.

We knew about identity theft on the internet, with hackers pretending to be their victim. We are now witnessing another type of attack: identity theft…of physical stores. A phenomenon spotted by France Verif, a French start-up which offers a free solution to identify, thanks to artificial intelligence, 99.79% of scams on the Internet and thus protect cyberbuyers.

Very hard to spot

While four weeks ago, this kind of scam was the exception, France Verif noted “a resurgence of fraudulent and dangerous sites that usurp the identity of real craftsmen traders or small companies. The crooks hijack the Google files and telephone numbers of these businesses, which makes them very credible in the minds of buyers who are less suspicious and, depending on the case, have their credit card number stolen or inherit a horse. even more serious,” the cybersecurity company states in its October attack barometer. This new scam is proving extremely difficult to spot, even for very sophisticated people.

“Cybercriminals have just crossed one more frontier: no longer even falsifying an existence but usurping an identity – even on Google! – of a physical sign, manufacturer, craftsman etc.…” comments Laurent Amar, co-founder and CEO of France Verif, who believes that “even if the sites in question disappear quickly, they have time to do great damage both to victims only for the reputation of these businesses which are generally not informed quickly enough to be able to react. »

Amazon Unsold Scam

Another very common scam in October is around unsold items from Amazon.fr. These are sites of cybercriminals who present themselves as resellers of these unsold items.

“The general idea of ​​this scam is to bounce off the fact that, rather than destroying its unsold goods, Amazon had to find an alternative solution. These pirate sites therefore present themselves as mandated by the e-commerce giant to sell, at discounted prices of course, these unsold items. Of course, the Internet user is seduced and orders products but either never receives them or has his bank card hacked”, explains France Verif.

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