Deceptive sites (also known as "phishing sites" or "social engineering sites") try to trick you into performing a dangerous action online, such as sharing your passwords or personal information, usually via a bogus web link.
Is this a risk?
This notification is intended to draw your attention to the receipt of an apparently legitimate message, featuring misleading text linked to a trusted site. However, in reality, it redirects to a potentially risky site.
Detailed explanation:
Below, we illustrate a concrete case of a supposedly legitimate message.
If you look closely the link displayed is https://www.cic.fr/fr/fr but in reality it redirects to another site https://www.sitefrauduleux.com
Case of direct mail:
This banner can be found in e-mails sent by commercial platforms that rewrite the links so as to be able to count clicks.
The links in these e-mails lead to a redirection service that records which link in which e-mail was clicked and then redirects to the original link.
These include newsletters, transactional e-mails and many other legitimate e-mails.
So it can also be a legitimate e-mail.