Apparently in recent times WhatsApp is no longer the safest social messaging service there is, the well-known platform is in fact witnessing the spread of a plague like wildfire that is hitting a large portion of users without any kind of warning, the danger we are talking about is a well-known face of digital risks, we are talking about online scams, in this specific case we are talking about an attempted deception perpetrated against the most vulnerable users, unable to recognize a scam when they have it right in front of their eyes.
This scam is also circulating in Italy and takes the form of a message that arrives out of nowhere from an unknown user, but the goal remains the same, in fact the scammers try to obtain sensitive data from the victim through deception to be able to use it for their own illicit purposes, obviously the preferred stolen goods are the access data to bank accounts in order to proceed with thefts directly from the victim’s current account with serious and irreversible consequences.
Here are all the details on how it works so that you don’t fall for it if you too were to fall for this decidedly sneaky and dangerous scam attempt.
All the details
This new type of scam that spreads via whatsapp and starts with a banal message that comes from a number that is not in your address book, this number has a prefix that is definitely unused in Italy, and above all does not have any type of group shared with us, moreover WhatsApp also highlights the country of origin of this number which in most cases turns out to be an African nation, if you were to find all these elements all together, the best thing to do is to immediately block the contact and obviously do not answer any questions for any reason, in this way you will prevent scammers from trying to extort information.https://youtu.be/1QhMqoTNSl8?si=J3cN-i0fXdpR4yMP