SURVEY – Many crooks are taking advantage of the rise in energy prices to better deceive consumers. Their fake sites are almost undetectable, even for professionals.
Electricity prices frozen for three years? Didier, 45, jumped at the chance when he saw this advertisement for the energy supplier Engie appear on Facebook. Anxious to save a few euros, the computer specialist clicked on said commercial ad, entered his bank details… and then nothing. “It was a bogus offer. I was debited 786 euros”, he remembers, ill at ease. Behind this advertisement was a cybercriminal usurping the identity of the French industrial group.
Didier’s story is not a special case. Hundreds of them have been taken in by this type of fraudulent site related to energy: gas or electricity contracts, purchases of pellets or wood stoves, etc.
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