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‘You’re paying late’: SMS scam targets parking tickets

The National Agency for the Automated Treatment of Crimes (ANTAI) warns of a recurring scam that has increased visibly in recent months.

Fraudulent SMS have become almost daily for the French. From “unpaid” Netflix subscriptions to the “non-regulatory” Crit’Air label, all topics are good for trying to extract money or personal data from victims.

For several months now, a parking ticket scam has been multiplying. The principle is essentially the same as for other scams of this type: an SMS that alerts about a “late payment” to pay a parking ticket, taking into account “Info ANTAI” to give credibility to the process.

Again, the link looks like an official link like “suivi-dossier-antai.com” or “dossier-antai-gouv.info”. Obviously, it is not the ANTAI site to regulate its verbalizations, this being a subdomain of the public service, “amendes.gouv.fr”.

ANTAI had already warned last summer of a resurgence of these false SMS inviting not to click on the links in question that end up stealing money or confidential data.

A reflection actually to adopt for all suspicious SMS, which multiply at the beginning of the year.

Author: Thomas LeRoy
Source: BFM TV

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