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A Whatsapp code will steal your identity: Beware of the Scam

It is the most dangerous scam circulating on WhatsApp, we show you the content of the message to which you do not have to reply.

“Hi, I sent you a code by mistake, could you send it back to me?” Have you by chance received this message from some of your telephone contacts? If the answer is “No”, you can continue to sleep peacefully. If the answer is yes, then you should pay attention to this article. In recent days, in Civitavecchia, there have been cases of telephone scam, coming from the most used social network in the world.

and if a message like this arrives on your phone, do not do anything other than a report to the Postal Police. It is, in fact, the message used as a Trojan horse by the pirates of the network to try to “pierce” our profiles Whatsapp and, consequently, have access to confidential data. Maybe, why not, even some potentially profitable passwords.

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Whatsapp scam spreads in Italy: how to recognize it

Nobody is safe anymore. The scam that targets Whatsapp accounts has also arrived in Italy. “Hi, I sent you a code by mistake, could you send it back to me?” If you ever get this message on your phone, immediately run to the Postal Police. In fact, it would be a text message created by some hacker network experts, to “pierce” our Whatsapp profiles for steal our sensitive data. Many reports have been received in the Lazio town, at the gates of Rome, and the people involved in the incident have decided to report the “incriminated” message to the authorities.

What to do if your Whatsapp account is stolen?

Hoping none of you have been an unfortunate victim of the scam, there is a way to recover your hacked account. Just log in to Whatsapp with your phone number and activate the verification of the number by entering the 6-digit code that will be sent on Whatsapp. And in this way, you will have the certainty of being the only ones connected to your Account!

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