"Add me on WhatsApp"the dangerous scam that can leave your checking account empty

Nowadays, cybercriminals never stop finding a multitude of ways to try to scam us, and to do so they use any type of methods, and the telephone number continues to be the most used.

However, with instant messaging applications like WhatsApp that are associated with a phone number, hackers will be able to perpetrate these types of scams much more easily.

And an attempted scam that is popularizing lately it is a call to your mobile phone that may end up surprising you.

In general terms, the scam is quite simple but many people are falling for it.

Basically a phone call is received from a recording in which the user is asked to add said number to WhatsApp.

In general, it is usually a message, obviously already prerecorded, from a woman who says that she needs to talk to you urgently, and that you please add her phone number to WhatsApp.

If you do, you will have come into direct contact with the hacker, who will try to get some type of information from you in order to scam you in the future.

This is the “add me on WhatsApp” scam and which the Civil Guard has already been warning about recently, and which seems to be seen much more during this type of Christmas season.

So if you ever encounter a call like this, never think about adding this number to WhatsApp and block it directly.

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Tags: Apps, WhatsApp