You receive a message from a friend ... WhatsApp warns

You receive a message from a friend ... WhatsApp warns

The WhatsApp application has warned of fraudulent messages coming to its users' accounts in the form of written words, and the strangest thing is that the messages come from friends already.

He stressed during an awareness campaign in cooperation with a consumer protection authority in Britain that this is a new method of fraud, calling during this campaign for three basic steps: “Stop a little, think, call.”

While the campaign aims to alert potential victims about the new fraud method, and how to address it, according to British Sky News, it noted that 59 percent of Britons received fraudulent messages or knew someone who had been exposed to it last year.

fraud method

Often, hackers using the "friend in distress" method ask to send a code, asking the victim to return it to them, and this enables criminals to hack the account.

Therefore, WhatsApp confirmed that if any user receives a suspicious message, he must adopt the easiest and fastest way to verify the matter, which is to directly contact the owner of the message or ask him to send a voice message.

The purpose of this is to make sure that it is really the person behind the “suspicious” message.

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