Back to school approaches, and with it the concerns of parents concerning the future class of their offspring. To reassure the most anxious, several sites and platforms promising Reveal the composition of the classes before the start of the school year Stop (like every year) to flower on social networks.
Attention scam!
Unsurprisingly, these services are a scam: no legal solution allows you to get this information in advance. Last year, the site see maclasse.com was particularly talked about. Today it has been recycled in “survey” With a conservative geopolitical tendency, and replaced by other platforms, which promise to rely on digital work spaces (ENT), to communicate the essential information long before the start of the school year.
The principle of these scams is simple and formidable. To be able to discover the names of the future comrades of their children, the parents are invited to fill out detailed forms: name, first name, date of birth of the child, frequented establishment, and contact details. The approach seems harmless, especially since these sites display an official presentation taking up the graphic codes of the administration.
The primary goal, you can imagine, is to massively collect personal data, in order to resell it by third parties, sales or hackers, who will try their luck via a phishing campaignor a scam with identity theft. Some platforms are simple affiliate relay: Each click to a partner, fraudsters perceive a commission. But more alarming cases relate to the resale of contact details from much more aggressive scammers or the fraudulent use of personal identifiers.
Why is it impossible to know the composition of the classes in advance?
Unlike the promise of these platforms, the composition of the classes remains strictly confidential until the start of the school year. The Ministry of National Education is formal: no official list is communicated to the public before D -Day. The reasons are multiple: respect for the privacy of minor students, principle of equality, but also permanent scalability of the workforce (departures, arrivals, mutations). Even when lists exist internally, they are likely to be modified until the day before the start of the school year, a teacher confirms to us.
How to react if we were trapped?
If you have given in to curiosity, and entered your personal data on one of these sites, it is crucial to report the risk of identity theft to the gendarmerie and, if your banking data has been communicated, to immediately oppose your banking establishment. It is also advisable to remain vigilant in the face of unusual emails or solicitations received in the following weeks, because attempts at future scams are likely.
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