The fate of WhatsApp is to gather fame for both good and bad reasons. And it is that being the messaging application most used on the different mobile platforms has served to put more than 700 in direct contact millions of users around the world, but also to get the attention of cybercriminals who want to take advantage of the ignorance of some users toget your own benefitGenerally with scams and scams that use the name of WhatsApp to hunt down the mostincautos Something that now seems to have intensified after the arrival of WhatsApp Web
Until now, the absence of an original version of WhatsApp Web was the easiest way to avoid these scams. And it is that, through social networks such as Facebook, several ads claimed to contain computer programsto be able to use this messaging application in the comfort of a keyboard and a large screen. In the same way that, previously, other ads offered services to read the messages of other users Questions completely false , in addition to illegals, who ended up collecting user data to subscribe them to a service PremiumHigh rates or very high costs for each message SMS received.
Okay, now a new wave of these scams seems to be hitting the Internet again, echoes ElEconomista from the security website Securelist Fraudulent versions that have little or nothing to do with WhatsApp Web, hiding behind its facade some kind of deceit that ends with the collection of user data or theirsubscription to a paid service that I didn't really want to contract.
Specifically, there have been cases of “WhatsApp for PC”, a page that requests the user's phone number to offer the alleged service, “WhatsAppChrome.com”, a Chrome browser add-on that resorts to copying the look of WhatsApp Web (including the charismatic QR code), and “WhatsApp PC Desktop“,which in its case uses a Trojan with the mission of infecting the user's computer to try to steal personal and bank data.
How to avoid these scams?
To avoid these problems, the first thing is to understand that WhatsApp Web is a service that is provided only through the Google Chrome browser and from the web page web.whatsapp.com . Without there being other official alternatives, downloads, programs or add-ons necessary for its use In addition, its use does not require the introduction of the number of user phone, just scan the QR code through the application itself.
Following these steps and distrusting everything that does not come from that website or with that operation, the user of WhatsApp Web should be peace of mind, knowing that your data is safe. Or, at least, that you are using the official service, thus guaranteeing its security and operation.Always wary of advertisements of any kind on behalf of WhatsApp And this company is very clear, from its inception, that are not willing to invest in .
