It could be a #pingcall, in which you are connected to an international hotline which charges just for connecting, along with high per-minute fees for as long as they can keep you talking.
Do watch out for an email scam going round purporting to be from the French tax office.
Thieves are targeting shoppers outside supermarkets throughout France, approaching as you unload your shopping into your boot, and waving a large road map in your face, pretending to ask directions.
Look out for scam emails about the Vitale V3 card with the Service-public.fr or Ameli logo inviting you to download a form to obtain the new card within 24 hours.
This is a variation on a scam that has been around for a while. You receive a phone call telling you that you have been selected as the winner of a ‘cadeau’, and you need to phone a number and give a code to claim it.
Sadly, new tricks are thought up every day by unscrupulous scammers hoping to con us out of our euros, so it pays to be alert.
READER’S WARNING
Just wanted to let you know that a similar scam arrived on my laptop from “proscan28online” pretending to be Microsoft technical support and freezing the computer.
Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while out shopping.
Simply going out to Intermarché has turned out to be quite traumatic. Don’t be naive enough to think it couldn’t happen to you or your friends.
This recently happened to some elderly friends of mine. “On Thursday the ‘EDF’ phoned to say they were sending two guys to look at our house near Canet with a view to helping us economise…
Scammers call you, and asks for you by name. Some are English speakers albeit poor ones