The five most dangerous WhatsApp frauds
The fame brings not only good things to an application. A good account of this can be given by WhatsApp which, after having become the most widespread messaging tool on all platforms and with the largest number of active users, also has managed to get the attention of cybercriminals and scammers who use this app as a platform for their crimes . Issues ranging from those chain messages that annoy through group chats, to other ways to get to swindle money from users due to their carelessness or taking advantage of their ignorance.Not to mention those frauds that seek to capture the unwary by delving into the curiosity, the gossipand the morbo Here we gather five of those frauds that have managed to be carried out through WhatsApp
1. I'm talking to you on WhatsApp. Tell me if you get my messages
This is one of the frauds that seeks to capture the user's attention so that they answer innocently to the number 25565 And, when reply to this message from SMS text the user ended up subscribing to a Premium or paid service high pricing. A hoax that took advantage of the ignorance and good will of the users of WhatsApp and whose best measure is avoid responding , ignoring this and other messages that do not come from known phone numbers.
2. Scams for wanting to gossip about other people's WhatsApp conversations
One of the most notorious cases of fraud through WhatsApp has the seal made in Spain This is the alleged WhatsApp Spy application A tool that managed to attract the attention of users by offering read your contacts' conversations anonymously The reality was quite different, obtaining the telephone number of the user, in theory to unlock and activate the application, but with the real reason to subscribe to a Premium service A fraud that resulted in the arrest of the creator of the fake spy application, who managed to raise more than 40,000 euros from overly curious users.
3. Security error in the WhatsApp application itself
The messaging tool itself has been severely criticized for not being the most secure application despite being the most widespread. One of those discovered bugs jeopardized the security of users by allowing to capture and know the location of users when sending it through the application. Something that fortunately did not take long to be solved by means of an update Hence the importance of keeping the tool always updated to its latest version.
4. Hoaxes about the privacy of WhatsApp after its purchase by Facebook
The news of the purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook not only served to raise the hairs of the most jealous users of theirprivacy And it is that the news about espionage, the dubious reputation of this social network and intimacy created alarm and unnecessary hoaxes.Among them message chains warning that it was necessary to carry out all kinds of meaningless processes to get the messaging application sealed. Even smear messages that encouraged to stop using WhatsApp forever Again, hoaxes that only create unnecessary alarm.
5. The WhatsApp message from Mark Zuckerberg himself
Some of these frauds and scams have become extremely original and ridiculous So much as to make believe that the sameMark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, would write a message on a not very correct Spanish to report user problems after purchasing WhatsApp A message that also called for sharing the content with all phonebook to be able to activate the messages application again.A clear sign of the search for virality through fear, ignorance and distrust of the user. And it is not necessary to share everything that arrives, using common sense and analyzing the signals to discover if it is a hoax or a real alert. Something that, surely, Zuckerberg would let the user know officially, through more serious and direct ways, and not through the forwarded by a family member or friend
