While France is splashed by narco-banditry which sows its deal points and corpses across the country, a completely different thugocracy, that of banking crooks, is prospering quietly. Far from the image of the small-time huckster, this galaxy is now populated by highly organized criminal groups who operate on an almost industrial scale. Opportunistic, these kings of sleight of hand make their money from rather sophisticated scams. First by hacking into individual accounts with sometimes disconcerting ease, until 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, validations on mobile applications or even recognition. facial. But the parade…
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