The scams of WhatsApp They have been more recurrent in recent months. Hackers, cybercriminals or simply thievesthey use a messaging service account Goal and they pose as banking institutions, telephone companies or companies that offer you dividends striking for jobs that require little effort.
This modus operandi is known as phishing and on previous occasions we have told you how they scam any user.who regardless of their knowledge of technology, have the skills to make anyone fall.
That is why it is necessary to be attentive to everything, even the prefix from which the scammer writes to you.which are usually the same, according to what we have been able to investigate on the Internet.
Pay attention then to the list that we are going to detail, which has the prefixes of the countries that scammers tend to use most frequently, according to reports Computer Today.
- +62 (Indonesia)
- +685 (Western Samoa)
- +27 (South Africa)
- +216 (Tunisia)
- +94 (Sri Lanka)
- +256 (Uganda)
- +222 (Mauritania)
None of these countries have Spanish as their native language. In none of these nations are there headquarters of Mercado Libre, Amazon or YouTube. So if any contact, with one of these prefixes, writes to you to offer you a job watching videos and clicking, you should keep in mind that they are leading you towards a scam.
WhatsApp scams
Recently they We tell that Spanish media were reporting that cybercriminals use an ingenious phishing strategy to try to empty your bank accounts. It is a matter of time before we see it in Latin America, so we tell you what it is about so that we can be very attentive.
Criminals and scammers create a WhatsApp account and put bank credentials in their photo and profile name. They make a video call and when they gain your trust, perhaps to solve a problem you have with your banking app, they ask you to share your screen.
If you do, you are in a vulnerable position, because you expose yourself to them seeing your passwords for the bank and any other service they ask you to access. This way they enter your users and leave you at zero.
The example of the portal we cited has a screenshot of a video call from cybercriminals posing as BBVA.