New hoaxes circulate through the WhatsApp application
Being the most widespread and used application in the field of messaging also means dealing with a greater number of threats and problems. Thus, WhatsApp is not only the victim of attacks or experiments by security experts or hacking to check its barriers and privacy, but it is also used as a tool to carry out all kinds of scams or intimidate and deceive its users with hoaxes, lies and jokesAll this with the simple technique of getting share the same message massively and virally out of fear or good will.
The last of these cases has been reported from the account of the Civil Guard on the social network Twitter By publishing a tweet they warn of the propagation of a new campaign of messages false on behalf of this state security body. Messages warning about a supposed virus secret introduced in videos of a well-known condom company that, after being accepted on the smartphone , ends up stealing user information, as well as their passwords. All this encouraging from the first moment to share with the rest of the contacts said information, whose origin is indicated as from the Support Group in Information Technology of the Civil Guard
An information that, in reality, has not emerged from such a source and that, like other messages shared by WhatsApp, only seek to create confusion and fear about the contents that are shared through this application. Something similar to what happens with another of the messages that currently circulates and predominantly through the group conversations In this other case it would be a message that repeats the classic formula of prevent WhatsApp from becoming paid if it is forwarded to a specific user number. Information completely false since, first of all, WhatsApp is currently atool payment with a one-year free trial service. It also refers to its creator, indicating a Spanish name, when in reality the co-founders of this application are Jan Koum and Brian Acton
More dangerous are the messages like the already known bankrupt kennel scam A message that talks about the sacrifice of a large amount of dogs for not being able to financially maintain the kennel in which they lived. The problem is that this message shows a mobile phone number with which to contact if you want to adopt one of these pets. In this way they want to sympathize with the most supportive people and get them to call that phone number. However, behind this there may be a cruel prank to annoy the real owner of the phone number, which has nothing to do with the kennel issue. In addition, this type of message can hide a telephone scam with calls to telephone numbers of high rate(90X prefixes), capable of creating a very high bill.
Because of all this, the best thing to do is not to share this content And it is that in view of the social alert and the forwarding of this information it is necessary use common sense first and foremost. It is also a good idea to investigate the source, asking the sender if they know the source or suspect that it is from another chain of messages false
