WhatsApp Scam: New WhatsApp Scam, With One OTP Message, Criminals Access WhatsApp Accounts
Fraudsters are now trying to pass you on by pretending to be your friend. If you send them a code, your WhatsApp will be hacked.
What is the new WhatsApp scam?
There is a new scam called ‘WhatsApp Gold’ that is making rounds in India. The first thing TechStart saw in May, WhatsApp Gold is a new scam that sends one OTP message to a friend, pretending to be your friend, asking you to join them and participate in the WhatsApp gold contest. What does this scam request? In a fake message, a person named Nikhil will ask you to share his OTP. OTP is accepted when you send a message to a friend. They will want the number given to your friend earlier, but changed. To access this 'gold', the user will need to send OTP to the number they received. If they share the same number with the user, the user will have to send it to them to gain 'gold' access.
Dangerous Truth
Fraudsters are now trying to pass you on by pretending to be your friend. If you send them a code, your WhatsApp will be hacked. Read also: Whatsapp Update 2017: WhatsApp status update with new features I have talked to many people about it. I didn’t expect as many people to be curious and eager as I would get back to myself. It's an easy task. They take your phone by entering your phone via SMS. Once they have your password and profile information they send you a message asking you to reply with a code. If you reply with that one-time passcode, your WhatsApp will be hijacked and the messages they send will be made public. When you receive a message from a friend, you will be tricked into giving them your WhatsApp login details.
How can you avoid this incident?
At the time of writing, WhatsApp had done nothing to address the specific scam. WhatsApp only allows you to send a message to only five people. If you are forwarding a message and do not see the message on your screen, you have not sent it to anyone. On WhatsApp, simply put the sender's number behind the text before forwarding. Whenever you click on "Transfer" in a conversation, you should see "Share" or "Copy" instead. When you see that message, you have not forwarded that message, but instead sent it to another group. If you do not see the "Copy" or "Share" icon on your WhatsApp screen, you do not have the right to forward the message.
The conclusion
The WhatsApp scam is constantly evolving and this is not an isolated case. And it is not clear whether WhatsApp has the technical tools to set up this particular one, these are from time to time. Use the strict encryption protocol for all your conversations. Use two-way authentication (where possible). in the comment section below.
0 Comments