A fraud has been identified in France involving fake savings accounts (Livrets) offered in the name of Indosuez employees.

For several months now, fraudulent investment proposals have multiplied. They use the name, address, logo, and/or license number of authorized entities as well as the names of employees of these entities, including Indosuez Wealth Management in France.

In particular, a fraud has been identified involving fake savings accounts (Livrets) offered in the name of Indosuez employees.

Fraudsters may also use legitimate companies or other financial institutions, which are also victims of their scam, to offer you fraudulent products.

Indosuez calls for vigilance and reminds that if you are a client of our institution, you should immediately contact your representative.

More generally, we invite you to follow the AMF's recommendations:

1.    Contact the company that the person you’re talking to claims to be from to verify that the contact truly comes from them and ask to speak to the specific representative; to do this, independently look up the company’s contact details (phone, email, and postal address) on its official website found through a search engine (do not rely on possible fake links in scam emails or contact details given orally),

2.    Do not take the information provided by a representative over the phone for granted. They may not be who you think they are and could have stolen the identity of a real employee,

3.    Do not respond to unsolicited phone calls,

4.    Do not reply to emails offering products or requesting personal or banking information without being solicited and without formally confirming the identity of your representative (see above), and do not share such information with websites if you cannot verify their reliability.

For more recommendations, you can also consult the educational information from the AMF and the European Banking Authority available at the following addresses:

https://www.abe-infoservice.fr/prevention-arnaques/les-mises-en-garde-des-autorites/attention-aux-usurpations-didentite; https://www.amf-france.org/fr/espace-epargnants/proteger-son-epargne/eviter-les-arnaques; https://www.amf-france.org/fr/actualites-publications/communiques/communiques-de-lamf/lamf-lafg-laspim-france-invest-lanacofi-la-cie-cif-la-cncgp-et-la-cncif-mettent-en-garde-le-public.

Furthermore, the ACPR and the AMF publish on their website a blacklist of unauthorized companies and sites (note that a site or company not listed is not a guarantee of the reliability of said company or site). 

https://www.amf-france.org/fr/espace-epargnants/proteger-son-epargne/listes-noires-et-mises-en-garde

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Finally, if you think you have been a victim of fraud or scam:

1.    Notify all financial institutions (banks, insurers…) of which you are a client as soon as possible,

2.    File a complaint on the site https://www.pre-plainte-en-ligne.gouv.fr,

3.    Contact INFO ESCROQUERIES at 0 805 805 817 (toll-free call from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 6:30 pm) and make a report on https://www.internet-signalement.gouv.fr,

4.    Contact the Banque de France to find out if any incidents have been reported to the central check file (FCC) or the personal loan repayment incident file – FICP,

5.    Consult the bank account file (FICOBA) to see if accounts have been opened in your name by the scammer. To do this, write, enclosing a copy of your ID, to:

Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (Cnil)

3 Place de Fontenoy

TSA 80715

75334 Paris cedex 07

Stay vigilant, fraudsters may contact you again following an initial scam and pretend to be a lawyer, legal expert, etc., claiming to have identified your funds and asking for a new fraudulent payment to recover them.