This Monday morning, the Haute Garonne gendarmerie alerted to a new series of scams whose attempts may emerge on social networks.

Fake websites and real scam

The majority of the facts take place over several months or even several years, specify the investigators. Instructions for use: the first contact is often linked to your own registration on a fraudulent site promoting high rates of return. These sites appear on social networks or on search engines. Also pay attention to the purchase of parking spaces, investment in nursing homes or cocoa beans.

Losses of thousands or millions of euros

Subsequently specify the specialists in cybercrime: you will be contacted by telephone, a bank account will be opened remotely in your name, and there will begin the scam with your payments, as well as the loss of thousands or even millions of euros.
Before subscribing to such investments, it is necessary to inform yourself well about the company, for this you can among other things go to the site www.amf-france.org, financial market authority where you will find a non-exhaustive list of false companies recalls the gendarmerie which calls for “vigilance”.