I received this phishing email today in one of my inboxes. As you can see, the scammers didn’t even bother to try and correlate the warning that DGFIP puts at the bottom of its email communications with the sender ID address at the top of the email.
Interestingly, for some reason, the hackers seem to believe I might have access to the commune’s public-commune finance interface, as the PIGP service is intended for connections between communes and the state for interactions relating to the commune’s finances.
Anyway, as usual, inspect any such emails in detail, and don’t click on any of the links before you can check them out to see if they are who they say they are. Additionally, if you can block the automatic display of at least some of the tracking information included in the body of the email, which I would guess are links that allow the spammers to confirm the validity of the email address of the recipient, then so much the better (and safer).
I am currently getting a daily scam email purporting to be from Amelie about my CV expiring () containing a very fishy link. Every one is from a different email address. I rather gave up sending them on to DGCCRF after the first dozen.
Yes - I have my mail server spam software flagging potential spam and then Apple Mail sends it automagically to the Junk mailbox.
But you can also flag individual emails as spam within Apple Mail (toolbar icon) and also block repeat offender email addresses - right-click on the address:.
I got something similar this morning, but the attachment (which I read online) consisted of a badly scanned letter, with lots of Fr gov logo,s informing me that I’d broken the law by accessing and distributing online paedo porn.
The letter neglected to explain why my accuser had chosen a U of Montpelier academic to inform me of my alleged offence. However the writer might have a sense of humour because when I checked the University’s web site, I learned the lecturer’s research area was viruses, albeit ones transmitted not by email, but by mosquitoes…
I had a very similar email today from ‘Vinci’ and also for 6.80€. It came from Vinci but ours are marked Ulys, also it doesn’t have our name/s. Nor do normal bills for Ulys/Vinci, actually.
And the email address is for an agency which I imagine the phishing people pirated.
Might want to kill that email address link in your post, Geneviève!
The address may not even be hijacked, sometimes they just use a “spoof” email address where the “from” line says one thing but the underlying email address is something else.
Quite right too, we’re all fed up with receiving photos of dodgy Chaucerian woodcuts and Byzantine icons from you.
They used to claim to have watched people via their webcams, haven’t had one of those for a while; either my spam filter is working as it should or perhaps they feel the academic slant will be more credible…
That happened to my son a few years back, turned out even. the local gendarmes had been targetted so he made a plainte for them to add to their list of local victims. One new scam but not internet based and was on TF1 a few nights ago was the increase in false officers of the law including gendarmerie, Police Nationale and Municipal agents. Their uniforms can be bought online even if they are a bit dodgy but an elderly person would not know, only the basic colour etc. One thing that cannot be reproduced though is a personal officer’s ID number which is actually on his clothing and gear and should tie up with any ID card produced. Uniforms bought online do not have these ID marks on them
Sometimes they just guess names - e.g. if it’s something like susannah99 (at) gmail dot com then a computer program can come up with it quite easily, as that’s how a lot of people set up email addresses.
Or it may have been harvested from social media or from a friend whose email has been hacked.
) containing a very fishy link. Every one is from a different email address. I rather gave up sending them on to 
