At 79, as he returns next school for a new season of “Vivement dimanche”, Michel Drucker proves that he must still be counted on. But the host has yet to show that he could also commit some blunders and fall into the trap. Le Parisien reveals that the host was the victim, on Friday June 24, of a credit card scam. Even if it is not known for the moment how the scammer obtained the phone number of the host, the latter called the husband of Dany Saval by taking the identity of his bank adviser.
Passing himself off as an “agent of the bank’s fraud department”, the man then warns Michel Drucker that a “fraudulent operation in the amount of 10,000 euros” would be in the process of being carried out “to the Côte d’ ‘Ivory”. A rather convoluted story but well enough put together to convince the host who, on the falsely advised advice of the scammer, hastens to make two other remote transfers of 7,500 and 2,500 euros. Realizing his mistake and his too great naivety once the phone hung up, Michel Drucker instructed his butler to file a complaint for him at the 7th arrondissement police station.
A story reminiscent of Louane, victim of a similar scam. “They call me saying: ‘There is a fraud on your credit card, you have to validate something on your banking app.’ I start doing what he tells me“, told the mother of little Esmée, last June 4 on RTL.He had not asked me the secret question and I forgot that it existed, this secret question”, chained Louane, who followed step by step the instructions given by his interlocutor on the telephone, before “realizing that C'[était] weird”. “The money is not coming back. He’s leaving… It doesn’t make sense. So I hang up. Too late. The money is already gone“, explained the singer, who then had the reflex to contact his real bank in order to obtain an appeal.
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