Behind the explosion of banking scams, these criminal networks which trap the French. Fake agency advisors, ‘little hands’ in Africa or Israel and offshore accounts.
They defraud individuals for more than 1 billion per year. Their victims, overcome by a feeling of shame, often hesitate to file a complaint. The new mechanism known as ‘strong authentication’ was put in place in 2019. In theory supposed to deter fraudsters, this reinforced security system is used by banks and all payment service companies to verify, with each transaction, the identity of customers via secret questions.