Consumers are therefore called to greater vigilance. The prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais, for example, recalls that” no product, food or non-food, does or doesn’t cure the coronavirus “and that” the decontamination of private housing is not provided by the State services “.
To counter the offers of screening kits and other kits of containment, the prefecture states that” only the health authorities are authorized to carry out the detection of the coronavirus “.
It also warns against” fraudulent internet sites (that sell paracetamol or drugs alleging to be effective against the virus “,” individuals (who) engaged in the illegal activity of intermediary in crowdfunding to offer a prize to the benefit, for example, of health care providers “or yet” practices of phishing, the smishing (or phishing) “that incite” the consumer to click on a link or call a premium rate number (…) in order to obtain personal information, including bank or a money transfer. “. All of this obviously,” under false pretenses, related to the coronavirus or to his administrative position “.
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