Monday, April 25, 2016

Detected a new fraud scheme WhatsApp – BBC

The company Eset has discovered a new form of Internet fraud in the messenger WhatsApp, in which users are asked to activate the video call.

WhatsApp users can come a message with an activation offer video calls in the application. If you click “Enable video calls now” under the pretext of checking the condition of the user’s activity is put recommend the site to ten contacts, or five groups in WhatsApp. It should be noted that the video calling feature is not yet supported in the messenger.

If you try to make a video call the user will receive a message stating that his registration information obsolete. By clicking “update now!” Button, the user is automatically signed on expensive SMS-services:. For each incoming message to this category will be removed money from the account

Earlier it was reported that WhatsApp has started to encrypt a message

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