"Scam," "false hopes": Influencer Benoît Chevalier promises his bank card, subscribers find their orders cancelled and their Amazon accounts blocked

The promise was spectacular: to give his followers his own bank card details so they could make purchases with his money. But the campaign launched by influencer Benoît Chevalier quickly turned into a fiasco. Behind the perfectly calibrated mechanism designed to build anticipation on social media, many internet users are telling their stories…

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