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Editorial Board
30 December 2020 19:21
The phrases of Happy New Year can hide a new scam: if at the end of the year millions of Italians exchange good wishes and images for a better 2021, the current year could end in a horrible way because of a scam that runs directly on WhatsApp, the popular messaging app that is getting mugged these days.
Among the good wishes for a good 2021 are those that will take advantage of to scam or steal accounts with all your personal data. In fact, some hackers use WhatsApp to send a fraudulent message with a 6-digit code.
The scam greeting message
The New Years scam exploits a rather deceptive trick and many would have already been affected by this virus, as the site already anticipated. Bufale.net. So be careful if you receive a message from a user you also know, who may be a friend or just a colleague: in some cases, the message could hide a 6-digit code that you will be asked to forward. The problem is that the replication of this code automatically leads to the blocking of the WhatsApp profile for seven days.
In short, apart from happy new year 2021. However, avoiding being exposed to hacker attack is very simple. Let’s start by identifying the scam message. Message that begins with a simple “Hello” but then continues with a sentence that invites you to resend a code sent via WhatsApp.
Inevitably, the user, thinking that it could be something important for his contact, will copy this 6-digit code, implementing the New Year’s WhatsApp scam without his knowledge, which will then also involve his contacts.
How the New Years scam works
How to block the chain? just avoid answering. Finally, it is also essential to enable WhatsApp security notifications, which therefore face a notification every time a contact changes the 6-digit access code; as well as the call Two-step verification, which requires you to enter a PIN for each record of your phone number in WhatsApp.
The mechanism behind the scam consists of entering a current phone number that is that of the victim’s contact, and as a new number that of the victim, who then proceeds, without their knowledge, to a new WhatsApp record.
