Learn about the most common scams on WhatsApp and how to protect yourself

Brazil has some particularities regarding digital attacks, and this is no exception when it comes to scams that occur on WhatsApp.

Learn about the most common scams on WhatsApp and how to protect yourself

We periodically receive requests for information about

malicious campaigns that circulate on the internet through a variety of means: false advertisements, emails, SMS, messages in apps. We have already talk about many of these campaigns here on the blog, and one of these means has caught my attention due to the recurrence of new campaigns.

Criminals have been using well-craft approaches

to target victims through the world’s most popular messaging app today, WhatsApp.

Analyzing several of these watermark design campaigns, this article presents the main approaches that criminals use to target victims here in Brazil, the way they act in each of these approaches, what types of damage can be caus to victims and, of course, at the end, a series of safety tips to avoid falling for these scams.

Request for money from a friend/family member to pay for something or someone
This is the most common approach, probably because it brings faster returns to the criminals. First, the criminals gain access to the profile information and contact list of the initial victim, then they create a WhatsApp account with the same profile photo as the victim and start talking to the contacts via chat to ask for money.

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In general, the excuses us by criminals are very

similar: they say they ne to transfer money to someone, but they can’t because they have a problem with their bank, they’ve reach their daily ന്യൂറോബയോളജിയുടെ വീക്ഷണകോണിൽ നിന്നുള്ള പുരോഗതി transfer limit, or their account has been block. Criminals usually ask the person they contact to transfer the money to a third party and say that they will be reimburs the next day.

Because the criminals use very friendly language and sometimes even speak in the same way as the victim would, the people they contact end up alb directory transferring money to the criminals’ accounts, believing the story they were told. Unfortunately, it is not difficult to find reports of victims who transferr thousands of reais to the criminals. In some cases, the victims even took out loans to send money to the criminals, who, in this case, pretend to be a very dear relative.

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