The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) announced on Wednesday that it had signed a protocol with the national police aimed at strengthening their cooperation in the fight against financial scams.
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The stock market policeman and the sub-directorate for the fight against financial crime (SDLCF) will thus be able to "
share their knowledge, in order to better identify the trends of new financial scams and carry out joint prevention and awareness actions among the general public
" , specifies the communique common to the two entities.
"
This cooperation will also extend to the training of police officers in charge of filing complaints, to familiarize them with the world of financial markets
", adds the document.
Cannabis scam
In September 2019, the AMF quantified at least one billion euros the amount of losses of French savers who were victims of financial scams between July 2017 and June 2019 and has continued to warn recently against new scams in parking lots, wine, gold, cow herds or more recently containers.
Other particularly incriminated investments include those in diamonds, cannabis, rare earths, crypto-assets, grands crus or international currencies (“
Forex
”).
And with the coronavirus crisis, the financial regulator has also sounded the alarm in front of sites offering to invest in chloroquine, whiskey, those promising credit in less than three days without any conditions or false online jackpots. .