In the last couple of weeks I have received six messages saying that my Carte Vitale has expired and to contact a web site. I thought I’d better report this to France Services when I returned home. They just shrugged their shoulders and said delete the messages from your phone. Then went on to say they had recently received several similar reports.
A useful heads-up - but I expect it’s very difficult for anybody official to do anything about such scams as they will most likely originate overseas, and the scam web pages and email addresses are constantly changing. Hence their apparent indifference.
There is a general French Interior Ministry contact point that you can use to report illegal or suspicious online content here:
I probably get these monthly. So many scams so many things to delete.
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