False International Bank Transfers (FOVI)
False international bank transfers are the most widely used type of cyber attack to date, according to the French Interior Ministry. Bank transfer fraud consists of scammers convincing company employee (s) (financial department, accountant, etc.) to urgently make a major transfer to a third party to obey an alleged order from a Director.
This fraud is identity theft of a legal representative of the company. It is often combined with taking charge of telephone lines and social engineering activities.
Supplier fraud
False supplier fraud or banking coordinate alteration fraud consists, as its name suggests, in masquerading as a supplier in order to obtain payment for invoices issued by the real supplier.
Often the fraudster previously obtained the real numbers and amounts of the supplier's invoices, which lends credibility to their request for a change of bank details with the interlocutor.
Fraud to false customers
There has been an upsurge in numerous scams in the delivery of goods (wine, building materials, etc.). False customers usurp the names of French (or foreign) distributors, or even carriers, to place orders: the goods are dispatched but the invoice is never paid.
Identity theft
Identity theft, unlike bank transfer fraud and false suppliers’ fraud, is used to denote an identity theft of all types of people with the aim of carrying out fraudulent commercial, civil or criminal activity.
Online counterfeiting
The online counterfeiting industry is now in the hands of real criminal networks that have unlimited investment capacity. They develop real marketing and SEO strategies on the Internet.
These sites use the logos as well as the images and advertising campaigns of brand names. Common and authentic domain names are often used in order to create confusion.
In addition to the monitoring activities that we carry out in order to identify these sites, we trace the path of the network and identify storage and production locations, in order to coordinate and implement crackdowns.
