Hit in the WhatsApp scam? Here’s how to get your money back
A new scam is seeing South Africans’ WhatsApp accounts hijacked so that fraudsters can impersonate them and ask for emergency cash transfers from the friends of victims – sometimes successfully.
The attack typically beings with an unauthorised porting of a cellphone number from one network to another, so that scammers can take control of the phone number and receive SMS verification codes.
The friends who receive sudden requests for cash have only one technical hint that they are being scammed: a notice from WhatsApp that the victim’s security code has changed.
Source: businessinsider.co.za
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