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…
) containing a very fishy link. Every one is from a different email address. I rather gave up sending them on to 
