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How cheaters cheat WhatsApp users

Как мошенники обманывают пользователей WhatsAppIn WhatsApp messenger began to wield the swindlers.

If you use WhatsApp, then beware. Attackers have found a new type of fraud.

The bottom line is that scammers offer the users of WhatsApp to activate video calling. The link spam posts the user gets to a website with the manual activation of the signals for different operating systems on smartphones.

After the user presses the button “to Activate the video call now,” it needs to recommend the website to ten people or five groups in the messenger. So said to check the activity of the user.

The scammers then send new instructions to update the software on the smartphone. Under the guise of an updated version of the application the user is subscribed to expensive SMS services.

Video calling in WhatsApp has announced end of last year, but not yet introduced. Experts advise to ignore suspicious links in social networks and messengers, particularly from unknown senders, as well as protect your device with antivirus.

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