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Is your Whatsapp account secure?
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Whatsapp SMS codes should never be passed on. (Image: Reuters / Dado Ruvic)
You get a message from a contact that you have saved in your own address book. “Hello, can you please help me briefly?” Is then, for example. «You will receive an SMS straight away. Can you please pass the code on to me? »It continues, like the online platform Mimikama.at explained. This should be for a competition or the like, so mostly the excuse of the sender when you ask.
Recovery code
Under no circumstances should you pass on the code. Those who let themselves be persuaded and do so lose access to their account. Because the code is an official code from Whatsapp.
Mimikama.at explains that it is actually intended to restore the account or to transfer it to a new smartphone or a new number. With this code, the fraudsters can take control of someone else’s account and then try to use the new account to persuade further contacts to give the code out.
Warn contacts
Anyone who has forwarded the code anyway should immediately try to inform their contacts in another way that they must not react to the messages from the hijacked account. On his website, the developer explains how affected users can get back to their account, Old chats cannot be read by the fraudsters on their devices, as the blog entry states.
The verification code should be viewed as a login SMS from the bank. In other words: “The codes are intended exclusively for you,” explains Mimikama. If you are not sure who is actually the sender, you can also call the person on the number – but not via Whatsapp. You should also go to your own Whatsapp account activate verification in two steps, Then, in addition to the code, a previously defined PIN must also be entered.
(Tob)
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