Cybercrime has increased its activity this year due to the pandemic, due to the use of Home Office and internet sales, platforms such as WhatsApp have become more essential for today’s market.
That’s why hackers focus even more on social networks, but especially on the instant messaging application, because it is one of the most used on the planet and the most popular to communicate today.
From Spain they report a new method by which these criminals try to steal WhatsApp accounts, but in this case it is not a technical way, but rather something simple and fast.
WhatsApp account theft method
The new deception to users pointing to the Spanish media is to replace a contact of the victim and then write the following message:
“Hello, I’m sorry, I sent you a 6-digit code by SMS by mistake, can you send it to me please? it’s urgent”.
In this case, the user will receive a message with a 6-digit code, this is totally true. The problem is that sharing these numbers is extremely dangerous, as they would register the user’s account on another mobile, which means that the hacker will have access to all of them.
Here we need to make something very clear and that for nothing in the world should you share WhatsApp codes with other people, because the security of your account could be compromised and stolen by another person.
WhatsApp warns its users that “never share your WhatsApp verification code with others. If someone tries to retrieve your account, they will need the verification code that was sent via SMS message to your phone. Without that code “No user trying to verify your number will be able to complete the process check and use the number on WhatsApp. This means that you remain in control of your WhatsApp account. “
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