First and foremost – Happy Easter! Hope you’re enjoying Easter and have not consumed tooooo many Easter Eggs! With so much going on in the World, it’s becoming more and more difficult to pick only two stories – and for those asking will I include more, unfortunately not at the moment. But will try to do more blog posts…
Ok, let’s get to it this Easter Weekend!
- First up – Whatsapp Scam! – So this first appeared on Twitter. Basically, there’s a very clever scam that’s going around which concerns all Whatsapp users. The attack revolves around the six-digit verification code that WhatsApp gives out when you want to regain access to your account.
The message reads ‘Hello, sorry I sent you a six-digit code by SMS by mistake, Can you transfer it to me please? It’s urgent.’
What has actually happened is your friend’s account has been hacked.
Scammers are now trying to hack all their contacts. You are one of them.
They are trying to set up WhatsApp on a new device with your number.
WhatsApp acknowledges this and sends a six-digit authorisation code to your mobile phone by SMS.
“The scammers now try and get you to forward it to them by pretending to be a friend of yours,” he said.
“If you send them the code, your WhatsApp will be hacked.”
Which? and Mr Alexis urged users to turn on two-step verification as protection. They also suggested confirming whether the verification message is real by contacting the friend who sent the message without using WhatsApp.
2. And this week gone…. we had April’s Fool Day! – Now we had some really good ones this year, and some… not so good ones!
You are probably wondering which ones were my favourite… well, personally for me, I think VW did very well, they came in early, made it very believable and did all the ground work required. Innocent also teamed up with Heinz which was clever…. especially after the whole beans on Weetabix situation!
Which was your favourite?
So there we have it… whatsapp scams and April Fool Jokes which had us all believing…