Banking Fraud: Scams by Handling up Sharply in 2025
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The amounts related to this type of fraud, which involves, for example, pretending to be a bank advisor in order to induce a victim to validate a fraudulent transaction, increased by 34 % over a year to EUR 516 million, according to the Bank of France's Monitoring Centre for the Security of Means of Payment.
It's a scam type that explodes: a fake bank advisor contacts you to empty your accounts. According to the Bank of France's security observatory, this scam reaches record amounts.
Manipulation scams increased by 34% in France in 2025. According to the Observatoire de la sécurité des moyens de payment (OSMP) of the Banque de France, they caused 516 million euros in losses.
Scams and abuses of trust have been multiplied by 30 in 20 years. Scams are persuasive: they pretend to be bankers and gendarmes. They use the real number of a bank and hold confidential information, which is probably the result of a leak of bank data. A scam that causes 50 victims a day in the country. How then to avoid the trap of the same number? If you have any doubt, hang up and call back with the known official number. (Company topics).
The amounts related to this type of fraud, which, for example, involves pretending to be a bank advisor in order to get a victim to validate a fraudulent transaction, increased by 34 per cent to 1 per cent.
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Manipulation scams now account for more than 40% of all payment fraud, compared to 32.1% in 2024.
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