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And if anyone asks you for cash , tell them you are Scottish ....
My SIL got her Whatsapp hacked a few months ago and it happened to her. "She" sent money requests to contacts and some of them paid. She also had her crypto trading app hacked and she was stolen about 2000 USD worth of cryptocurrency. I think these were two separates occurrences.
You can setup your Whatsapp with added security to prevent account hacking. Follow these steps:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2DcWHPyvFQ/
How do they access your account?
We are all walking about every day with a treasure trove of personal information on our phones. It's certainly worth the time and effort it takes to configure everything as best we all can (I'm telling myself too) to protect it. I will be reviewing my various apps in terms of two-factor authentication as Splinter mentions above.
I think I'm quite savvy online but I walked straight into some wrong-doing as recently as yesterday and it's not dissimilar to the tragic story above given it involved impersonation.
Someone contacted me on Discord pretending to be admin of a server I follow there asking me to subscribe to a service they were offering. I did not do that but I did respond to them thinking they were who I thought they were. It was only hours later I realised they were not.
It's damn difficult these days.
If you haven't arranged a "safe" word with your friends, I don't think it's out of order when you get a message out of the blue from someone who claims to know you to ask them something like "How is poor little Chi-Chi? Has she come back from the vet after her operation?" And when the friend answers "Who the hell is Chi-Chi?" then you know it's likely to be them.
One of my wife's friends was caught out by a phone scammer who mimicked being her son. He fooled her into depositing a large sum of pesos into some account. I asked my missus if Miriam was losing her marbles given when I last met her a few years ago she seemed very with it and not the type to be taken in so easily.
If you haven't arranged a "safe" word with your friends, I don't think it's out of order when you get a message out of the blue from someone who claims to know you to ask them something like "How is poor little Chi-Chi? Has she come back from the vet after her operation?" And when the friend answers "Who the hell is Chi-Chi?" then you know it's likely to be them.
That's very French Resistance, but yes...
Thw good lady got her Whatsapp hacked last year . We notoced when the girl in the profile picture started showing off her new tattoos....
No money got stolen by what pissed me off was a total lack of cooperation from Whatsapp- they dont bloody care.
The local pizzeria got theirs done last week. I know at least ten families who dnt get supper that night....
Thw good lady got her Whatsapp hacked last year . We notoced when the girl in the profile picture started showing off her new tattoos....
No money got stolen by what pissed me off was a total lack of cooperation from Whatsapp- they dont bloody care.
The local pizzeria got theirs done last week. I know at least ten families who dnt get supper that night....
Can they do it just by knowing your number or do they have to have your actual mobile?
They get your number and send messages that look serious . Yo reply ny mistake and then they hack you.
they dont need your mobile.
They get your number and send messages that look serious . Yo reply ny mistake and then they hack you.
they dont need your mobile.
I see. 
I'll tell the missus as she gets messages from loads of folk. I get very few.
There's nothing that's going to be called a perfect security, no matter what any software developers are going to claim
Let's just say that if you receive a call or message from someone who sounds serious, pretends to be from a government department for example and asks you to tell them the six digit code that you have been sent, tell them to fuck off.
Why would you share a code that only you should know with a complete stranger?
Why would you send thousands of pesos/dollars to a complete stranger?
Common sense should tell you something's not quite right. Anyway, if they call me they'll be in for a surprise when they hear ''hullo rerr, how's it hanging?''
Why would you share a code that only you should know with a complete stranger?
The cleaning lady that came here for a while told me that she was stolen money from Mercadopago through phishing.
The plot was as follows: she was having issues with her MP account, so she posted on the official MP FB page a message asking for help. A fake MP account (similar name as the official one, but no "blue seal" indicating that it was an official account) messaged her privately on FB saying that they had read her post on the page and were ready to assist.
At that point, they engaged in what the scammers described as a "verification of her account". They asked her her email address associated with MP, which she provided, and she had to repeat them the verification code that was being sent to her mobile phone.
In reality, what they did was following the procedure to reset her account password. Once they had the verification code that had been texted, they changed the password of her account and proceeded to transfer the funds. I think it was 20k pesos - back then, it was close to 50 USD, that for her are a lot of money. Her family used her account to receive payments for the sales at her father-in-law kiosko.
She said that MP refused to help because she deliberately provided the code to a third party.
