Financial investments: watch out for scams!

Signs that should alert you:

• you do not know the person contacting you;
• you are promised very high and risk-free returns;
• you need to make a quick decision;
• you have to transfer to an RIB abroad.

Before investing, make sure you know who you are talking to:

• contact the business whose contact claims to be after you have looked up his contact details to check that the contact originates from him;
• Compare the email of the person you are contacting with the email of the authorized professional to the letter;
• interrogate the professional association whose seller claims;
• consult the blacklist of unauthorized businesses and sites regularly updated by the AMF and those drawn up by Insurance Banque Épargne Info Service..

Before investing, adopt the right reflexes:

• do not communicate your personal details (telephone, mail, identity documents, RIB, IBAN, proof of domicile...) to sites whose reliability you cannot attest to or by filling in forms on the internet after clicking on an advertising banner;
• do not follow up on unsolicited phone calls;
• don't take information given by a caller at face value, who may not be the person you think they are;
• do not give in to the urgency or pressure of your interlocutor, take the time to reflect;
• beware of the promise of quick gains without counterparties: there is no high return without high risk.