WhatsApp is at the center of a new scandal in this period after a new extremely important warning was made that applies to hundreds of millions of people, although it comes from the authorities of a country. More precisely, the authorities in Fiji issued an alert for citizens after some of them were tricked by hackers into sending them no less than 31.000 dollars before the WhatsApp fraud scheme was stopped.
WhatsApp it was used by unknown persons to tell people that they have packages blocked in customs, and that they must pay a certain fee for them to be released by the authorities. Various bank accounts were provided to people to do this, but of course those accounts were not of the authorities, but of the people sending the fraudulent messages via WhatsApp, but the people were still fooled.
WhatsApp: ATTENTION, Very SERIOUS Problem for People
WhatsApp can be used in this way to trick people in some countries into sending money to strangers based on messages that seem to come from the authorities, but in Romania similar things can be done in much simpler ways. Considering that here the authorities do not contact anyone via WhatsApp, the campaigns with deceptions can be done in the name of big companies, or celebrities, or fundraising, all designed to fool people as easily as possible.
WhatsApp it has been used for a very long time by various hackers to steal considerable amounts of money from people, and until now there have been many successful campaigns of this kind, for hackers. The problem is that many people can be fooled very easily by methods of this kind, and WhatsApp has become a platform through which things of this kind are done very easily, so you have to be very vigilant.
WhatsApp it is not only used to spread a lot of false information about the Coronavirus, but also to steal people's money en masse, which is of course very difficult to stop, unfortunately.
