An offer to obtain the Liberté TGV card from the SNCF for 1 euro is currently circulating in the mailboxes of many users. Should you be tempted by this exceptional promotion?
You may have received a message in your mailbox, like many users since the end of March, telling you that you could benefit from a “exceptional offer” : the Liberté TGV INOUI card for only 1 euro! “We are delighted to celebrate OUIGO’s Birthday with you with an exceptional Promo”, we can for example read in an e-mail which uses the header of SNCF Connect. Another mentions an incredible reduction on the occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. A golden opportunity, given that such a card, which allows you to travel at fixed prices and benefit from numerous advantages for a year, costs time normal 399 euros!
As you can imagine, this offer is too good to be true! This is indeed a scam, and more precisely a classic phishing attempt. Scammers have usurped the identity of SNCF Connect, the railway company’s ticket and discount card sales site, in order to recover users’ personal and banking data. In fact, they are invited to click on a link to a website that looks exactly like that of the SNCF and on which they are required to fill out a form. Obviously, all this information goes into the pockets of cybercriminals.
The railway company is categorical on this subject. “SNCF Voyageurs has never launched such a promotion”she confirms to Figaro. If the Liberté TGV INOUI card is indeed currently on sale on the official website, it is offered at 349 euros instead of 399 euros. Nothing to see then! “SNCF Connect will never ask you to provide your personal data (name, age, address, banking details, passwords, customer account information, etc.), neither by email nor by SMS“, takes the opportunity to highlight the SNCF, which intends to file a complaint. It recommends to people who have “a doubt about the identity of the sender of an email or SMS” that they were told not to open it, not to click on the links it contains and to delete it from their mailbox. This is not the first time the company has been the victim of identity theft. Last summer, false advertisements circulating on Facebook offered to obtain a gift card offering a year of free travel for only 1.95 euros, while, at the end of 2023, a false competition was rife on WhatsApp to allow free travel for a year.