WhatsApp Scam That Will Steal All Your Data Be Careful!

That’s right, a new scam from WhatsApp It has arrived and this time it uses one of the oldest techniques in computing, social engineering, but it is very easy to avoid but you have to be very careful with it.

There is no doubt that the weakest link in computer security and the privacy of our data is people and that is that you can have the most secure system in the world, but if you can manage to trick a person who already has access to you letting in doesn’t matter.

It is for this reason that many data theft techniques They do not focus on breaking systems, but on defrauding people.

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Sometimes it is simpler, and with little effort it can be semi-automated, in fact it is the case of a new scam which is not really new considering it has been done in other countries for years.

However, the practice has recently spread in Spain and Latin America and has surprised many.

So much so that the Catalan police, Mossos d’Esquadra, has warned of these reports fraud and the danger they pose as they would take away access to your accounts and you would lose much of your data, social networks or even access to your bank accounts.

The attack intensified in early 2020, but throughout the year, with the contingency health and so many people at home, it has spread much more.

Did you receive such a text message? DO NOT ANSWER IT !!! It is the message with the verification code for the installation. If you provide it to a third party, it will manage your account on their device and thus access to all your groups and contacts, ”the message said on Twitter.

The truth is, it is as simple as it is effective and if you receive a message from a contact you know and they tell you, simply:

Hey. Sorry. I accidentally sent you a 6-digit code by text message. Can you pass it on to me? It’s urgent ”.

It is a phishing technique that uses social engineering through identity theft, where attackers enter the phone number of the WhatsApp accounts they want to obtain and activate the verification process, which sends an SMS.

It’s worth noting that social engineering phishing identity theft is one of the oldest hacking techniques in computer security.

The attackers then pretend to be known to the victim, using a WhatsApp account that they have already violated and already have control over.

The latter does not make many people suspect that it is an attempt at social hacking and many people fall for it, as normal.

The same practice could be used to access other accounts, not just WhatsApp, as other services, including banks, use SMS verification, it’s relatively easy to access.

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For this reason, it is so important to be very careful and never send phone numbers SMS verification to other people, even if they are contacts we know, as it could be an attacker impersonating someone else.

However, there is a solution for those who have fallen for this type of phishing scam to try to fake.

Fortunately, the very technique used to steal an account is what makes it so easy to get it back.

Since the application associates a person and their account with the phone number, we just need to restart the login process on our WhatsApp and ask them to resend the verification code via SMS, enter it and regain access.