An online anti-scam filter will be created: what will this system designed to protect Internet users look like ?

Un message d'alerte devrait bientôt apparaître quand les internautes cliquent sur un lien renvoyant vers un site potentiellement frauduleux. Illustration Midi Libre – SYLVIE CAMBON

As part of its vast law recently adopted to secure the Internet, the government will set up an anti-scam filter, aimed at protecting Internet users from this scourge which abounds on the web.

Announced a year ago, the anti-scam filter should now see the light of day soon. With the final validation of the law aimed at securing the internet this April 10 at the National Assembly, the subject returns to the forefront.

Indeed, the law provides, among an immense battery of measures aimed at securing internet use, the implementation of this filter anti-scam cybersecurity plan for the general public.

The Vie Publique site explains that with this filter, "an alert message will warn people when, after receiving a fraudulent SMS or email, they are about to go to a malicious site. This message will link to an official State website.

Blacklist of dangerous sites

It must be said that possible scams are legion. Between CPF scams, the Critair sticker, and false promotions featuring the face of Elise Lucet, no Internet user has ever been confronted with a fraudulent site.

In detail, the system is accompanied by a blacklist of dangerous sites, likely to lead to hacking or scams, which will be drawn up by the competent authorities after reports of the Internet users. If the site is considered malicious, internet browsers such as Google Chrome or Firefox will be obliged to apply this filter, recalls Thank you for the Info.

As for its deployment, this is where the government remains unclear. Questioned by La Tribune, Marina Ferrari, the Secretary of State for Digital Affairs said only that&amp ;quot;this filter should be operational in the coming months.