To deal with the resurgence of SMS fraud, the government has taken a big decision. The implementation of an anti-scam filter that warns users in the event of a suspicious link. Here are the essentials to remember about this future device.
The scams don’t stop. Last week, 5 men suspected of having stolen phone numbers to target them via an intelligence service device were arrested. Faced with this upsurge in SMS fraud, the government will launch its anti-scam filter in 2023.
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How does this anti-scam filter planned for 2023 work?
Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate in charge of Digital, asks the question at the microphone of Franceinfo: “ who has never received fake text messages related to the CPF, Social Security or Crit’Air vignettes? “. A situation described asintolerable by the politician as a scam filter prepares for 2023.
This filter, as Jean-Noël Barrot explains, “ prevent preventively the Internet user, or the user, when he is about to go to a site that has been identified as a scam “. The operation is therefore very simple by alerting the person who has clicked on a fraudulent link in a scam SMS.
If in general, the urls of scammers are easily spotted, some citizens are still too little information on this point. There are always victims even in the face of the most obvious scams. By warning the targeted person, the government hopes to curb the resurgence of these scams while putting a spoke in the wheels of hackers.
When will the scam filter be available?
At present, information about this device remains unclear. The Minister Delegate for Digital tells us more about the launch with a release between September and October 2023 in the test phase via a first version.
The goal is for this trial to allow developers improve the device for the next Olympic Games scheduled for Paris in 2024. Jean-Noël Barrot ensures that the necessary will be done to ensure that this anti-scam filter is optimal.
