WhatsApp Users Beware: Deceptive Tricks and Scams Exposing Personal and Financial Information

Deceptive Tricks Targeting WhatsApp Users

Introduction

Recently, there have been many deceptive tricks to which users of the popular conversation application “WhatsApp” are exposed, which leads to the leakage of their personal and financial information, the most recent of which was receiving messages from unknown numbers asking to perform certain actions in exchange for an amount of money, or the sender claims that he is a relative of this user. He has fallen into trouble and asks to send him a sum of money so that he can get out of his predicament.

And the company “WhatsApp” provided an urgent warning about a deceptive message on the “WhatsApp” application, after it received a large number of user complaints, explaining that they had received messages from strange numbers, asking them to perform certain tasks in exchange for an amount of money, but they are deceptive messages aimed at Obtaining their personal and financial data to steal them.

And the users of “WhatsApp” stated in their complaint that the deceptive messages they receive are often from numbers from the countries of India, Pakistan and Vietnam asking them to do a specific order in exchange for obtaining money through international money transfer applications, and that once they respond to the messages and implement what is required of them, the matter turns into a fraud. Electronic, and sometimes the strange number requests access to a specific link, which contains malicious activities and programs.

WhatsApp’s Response

The famous application responded to the complaints of its users, through the “Stories” feature, asking them to report such messages as soon as they receive them, by following the following steps:

• Long press on the message received from the strange user.

• Choose the three dots above the application.

• Then press Report.

Earn money by cheating

In its response to user complaints, “WhatsApp” indicated that the fraud through its application is nothing but an illegal plan to earn money by deceiving people to reveal their personal or financial information, and that there are several ways that fraudsters follow to steal personal data of users, blackmail them and steal their money, including that The scammer sends a message to a user of the app claiming to be his relative and starts chatting with him, and then asks him to send an amount of money.

Real Incident

And a WhatsApp user named Alison documented her exposure to this deceptive trick, explaining that she had received a message that the sender claimed to be her son, in which he said: Hello, Mom, I dropped my phone in the toilet, and this is my new number, and he asked her the next day to send him an amount of 2600 pounds sterling (about $3,600), because he needs to pay off a specific loan.

Although the mother tried to call the number several times to talk to her son and check on him, every time a stranger answered her telling her that her son could not talk and trying to help her expedite the transfer of money, but she almost fell into the trap, had she not accidentally forgotten to click on Final payment confirmation.

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