WhatsApp has warned users again today about two extremely serious problems that should be on the attention of users all over the world, and which bring to attention exactly where we are. After the other days I told you about the big scam with WhatsApp Gold, now I'm coming to tell you that there are two other scams circulating in WhatsApp designed to trick people into installing malware on their phones, giving hackers access to them.
WhatsApp has another scam that is "brought back to life" in this period, considering a video clip called "Martinelli", the message sent to people all over the world is not to open such a clip. In this situation, there is usually no recommendation for those in WhatsApp, apart from avoiding opening the clips, but in some cases it is also recommended to access websites that clean phones of possible viruses.
WhatsApp: Users WARNING, what NOT to do on the Phone
WhatsApp there is also a third scam that circulates non-stop these days among users, it also has a video clip in the middle called "Dance of the Pope". Here users are informed not to open those video clips because they can break their phones, and just like in the case above, sometimes the message from WhatsApp comes with the recommendation to access websites to check phones for viruses.
WhatsApp has, in a completely ironic way, these scams propagated after last year a critical vulnerability allowed phones to be hacked through video clips sent to the platform, the Amazon president's phone being hacked in this way. This shows us that sometimes there can be some truth behind some scams of this kind, and the case of the Amazon president shows how vulnerable the WhatsApp application is, but also how much care we have to take when using it.
WhatsApp it has a lot of problems, too many to be solved by Facebook, and to all this there is also a huge campaign with the propagation of false information in various areas of the globe.
