The messaging application par excellence is WhatsApp. Universal and ideal for talking to your friends, colleagues and family, has become the main target of scammers. According to a study by the famous IT security company Kaspersky, 90% of scams happen via WhatsApp.
There are different methods, since on the one hand they will try to take over your account, but on the other hand, they may simply send you messages to encourage you to make a deposit or transfer. In Applesphere we want to help you recognize the main scams and we will also give you the keys to protect yourself.
Hello Mom, my phone is broken and here is my new number… The number one WhatsApp scam
This is literally the most used scam on WhatsApp. This particularly happened to me with my mother, my uncle and my grandfather. Either way, the conversation is the same
Hello mom, my phone is broken. This is my new number, can you give me a bargain of 100 dollars? I need it, it’s urgent.
That’s how it starts, and with nerfs and a general problem with minor tech, they tend to fall in most cases. Fortunately, my mom wrote in another family group we have on iMessage to find out if I was okay and what had happened to my iPhone. That’s when we warned him to delete the conversation and nothing happened.
They want your WhatsApp account to talk to your contacts pretending to be you
The second most used scam method is trying to take over your WhatsApp account. SO, They will be able to participate in conversations and start writing to friends and his family to ask for favors.
Send me a message to this number because we bought a gift for… Can you make a transfer to this account? It’s for the workshop of the car which is broken and I’m in a hurry to repair it.
Everyday things, day to day, and it wouldn’t make you suspicious because you would write to them “yourself”. The methods for obtaining your account can be diverse, from a link by email asking to reconnect, even a fake WhatsApp Web QR code.
Furthermore, Another method is to ask you for a six-digit code. which arrived via SMS, which WhatsApp sends when you want to log in on a new device. If you don’t realize it and respond quicklythey will have already accessed your account.
Enable this option on your iPhone to protect WhatsApp
Faced with this latest scam in which they want to access your account, there is a foolproof method. This is called two-step verification and it consists of a six-digit PIN that WhatsApp will ask you for when you log in.
SO, even if the scammer has obtained your number and access to SMS that you receive to log in, you will need to enter the six-digit code that you only have in mind. To activate it, you must:
- Go WhatsApp
- Setting > Account
- Activate it two-step verification
Of course, You should not disclose this code to anyone, and the scammers will try to write to you pretending, once again, to be someone they know. So he hesitates before any message that is out of the ordinary. Although this might be true, Call this person on the phone. Whether son, uncle or friend. He won’t take it badly and if he needs help, he will be able to confirm it to you out loud.
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