WhatsApp is at the center of an extremely important warning that the authorities in Romania make for citizens, and you must be extremely careful because they target some important stores. According to a message published by the Romanian authorities, WhatsApp is used to distribute false information regarding the offering of vouchers, or free products, by the companies Lidl and Addidas, two of the most famous brands in Romania.
WhatsApp it is used for the mass distribution of this information because there are a lot of gullible people who can be fooled extremely easily, but who also pass on the information. We are talking about an attack made by one, or a group, of hackers, they use malicious websites to collect information from users under the pretext of the fact that they will receive free items from Lidl or Addidas, the messages having many distributions on WhatsApp.
WhatsApp: WARNING of the Romanian Authorities for Citizens
WhatsApp is a platform used very frequently for the distribution of false information of almost all types, but also for extracting a lot of confidential information from gullible people. Lidl and Addidas are just the latest brands used by hackers to trick people in WhatsApp into giving up their data, in the past including eMAG, Altex, Posta Romana, and more, having the image used for attacks of this kind, from sorry.
WhatsApp it doesn't really want to effectively fight problems of this kind, so you have to be very vigilant, and when you see messages like the ones in the image above, ignore them. Even if Lidl and Addidas sometimes have various campaigns in which they offer free products, you should not trust what is promoted on WhatsApp at all, and check their websites, or possibly the official pages on the Facebook social media platform.
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Published by CERT-RO pe Friday, March 6, 2020
WhatsApp has had the above messages shared by a lot of people lately by a very varied range of people, so be very careful what you receive from unknown people.
