The “Total Energies card of 200 liters for 1.95 euro” circulating on social networks is a scam. With this type of implausible offers, cyber scammers take advantage of the moment of panic generated by the fuel shortage in France, to deploy fake Twitter and Facebook advertisements, hoping to deceive some victims.
Pay extra attention: fake prepaid cards are circulating on the web
With rising fuel prices, scammers are offering prepaid fuel cards on social media, valid at Total Energies stations. BFMTV has identified a fake Facebook ad that promises “the possibility of obtaining a 200 liter fuel card for only 1.95 euros”. This post is also replicated in various groups, with fake comments claiming to have received such a card.
Scammers try to trick users desperate for cheap fuel in the midst of a shortage. On Twitter, 20 minutes detected other forms of this scam. A publication by a certain Thomas Reygaerd (@ReygaerdT), also offers the solution of Total Energies prepaid cards. The scammer, to reassure his victims, claims that the cards come from a “a company operating in ‘logic’ (sic) and transport”.
With prices set at 300 and 2,000 euros, the buyer can supposedly access three liters of petrol per euro. The criminal demands payment made in cryptocurrency. Unlike Facebook publications, where it is a fake contest that aims to steal personal data, the Twitter scam offers to exchange on a Telegram account with a hundred members.
Do not pay prepaid cards online by bank card
Already last May, Total had officially denounced the existence of this scam. Accounts have been usurping Total’s identity for several months to offer TotalEnergies gift cards at knockdown prices. These advertisements can be broadcast from Facebook pages called “Le carburaпt des Français”, “Fuel discounts for the French” or even “ToтaІ Іnс fuel cards. “. Despite a graphic charter identical to that of Total Energies, this is indeed an identity theft.