After the French data leak, scam calls impersonating crypto platform customer service are on the rise

Odaily reports: Owen Simonin, founder and CEO of French crypto platform Meria, stated that following several recent data breach incidents in France, there has been an increase in scam calls impersonating customer service representatives from legitimate platforms such as Binance and Meria.

Scammers falsely claim that users' accounts or funds are at risk, inducing them to urgently transfer their crypto assets to designated addresses. Simonin emphasized that platforms will not ask users to initiate transactions or provide personal information when users have not proactively contacted them.

In August, the French General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) disclosed that a data breach incident allowed hackers to obtain the data of 678,000 taxpayers. (Bitcoin.com News)