The Ministry of the Interior has unveiled a new test service, Thésée, which should prevent victims from having to go to the police station or gendarmerie.
Digital scams have become a scourge for many French people. On March 7, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, revealed that from March 15, a dedicated platform would be launched. This has now been done. Thésée, for Harmonized Processing of Investigations and Reports for E-scams, has as its main purpose the fight against cybercrime and to allow victims to “file a complaint without having to go to a police station or a gendarmerie brigade”, explains the ministry on its website.
Already in the experimental phase since last October, this service concerns several types of scams, such as hacking of electronic and instant messaging, online blackmail, ransomware, romance scams or fraud related to sales sites. The platform will be able to count on a dedicated team of 17 police officers and gendarmes assigned to the Central Office for the Fight against Crime Related to Information and Communication Technologies (OCLCTIC).
