The mail offers insured persons to secure their accounts …
The alert was given by a user of the Reddit social network and many will thank him. A few days ago, this person received a letter from health insurance in his mailbox, offering him to strengthen the security of his Ameli account and his vital card. The letter is well written, without spelling mistakes, it includes the organization’s logo and an address. The author – or rather the crook – goes so far as to recall in the mail that you should never communicate his identifiers and passwords to third parties “nor click on unbeknip links received by email or SMS “, To protect your data.
For the insured, the approach is simple. It is enough for him to scan the QR code present on the mail, validate his identity and then confirm the update of his account in order to continue to have his rights and refunds of care safely. At first glance, nothing abnormal except that … at the bottom of the mail, it is specified in fat that it is “important” to carry out this approach “within 72 hours” Otherwise the Ameli account may be suspended. For fear, the person who receives the mail says that it is immediately necessary to secure their account … and the trap closes on them. “It is indeed an attempt at phishing” confirmed the press service of the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) to our colleagues from RMC.
Scams are increasingly difficult to detect and health insurance beneficiaries regularly pay the costs. “”When you have any doubts about a received message that emanates from health insurance, it is possible to go to Ameli which provides many tips to help insured people to thwart these phishing attempts ” advises the CNAM. In a case like this, what can alert is that the mail is not nominative, which is rather rare when a health organization written to one of its insured. The precision of time to act (72 hours) is also abnormal. The crooks play regularly with this emergency character to scare the victims.
Finally, The threat of suspension of the account is a classic process of scammers, but never of health insurance. In case of doubt about a scam, the French government proposes to consult the 17cyber site. It is a public online assistance service for individuals, businesses, associations and communities victims of cybermalvence.
