New Delhi 19 Jun 2020
The Delhi Police Cybercrime division is alerting WhatsApp users to be careful about a new type of scam which involves hijacking of WhatsApp accounts. The scam involves taking over someone’s WhatsApp account so that it can be used to communicate with friends and family members of the victim in order to carry out financial transactions.
Delhi Police in a series of tweets said that the fraudsters simply aim to lock out users by using WhatsApp’s two-factor authentication. Here is everything you must know about this Delhi Police explained, attackers obtain WhatsApp verification PIN from target using a fake account with official WhatsApp logo as display picture to trick users into believing that it is the official account of WhatsApp tech team.
The attacker creates a fake account with the official WhatsApp logo as a display picture posing to be WhatsApp technical team’s account.
The attacker then sends a message to the target asking him/her to share the six-digit verification PIN to verify their identity. ( Gadgets )
