Fraudsters have invented a new way of dressing: they offer the users of WhatsApp to activate video calls in the app by specifying your number to a third-party website. After that from the victim’s account written off large amounts for paid SMS-mailing.
A victim of scams have become users of the popular service for messaging WhatsApp. A new scheme of deception was told by the experts at ESET. As reported by MacDigger in the company, users of instant messenger are offered to enable video calls.
The emergence of free video calls in WhatsApp was announced at the end of 2015. Taking this opportunity, the attackers publish in social networks calls to access functions now. The link from the fraudulent posts to the website with instructions on how to activate video calling on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.
After clicking “Enable video calls”, the user has put a new condition: to recommend the website to contact ten or five groups in WhatsApp. Request explain the need to check the activity of the user.
Sharing fraudulent link that the user receives new instructions to update the software on the device. Under the guise of “new version of WhatsApp” hidden subscription to SMS services. As noted in ESET, these services are quite costly and from the account of the user start be charged a considerable amount.
While the scheme is aimed at Spanish-speaking users WhatsApp, but is easily redeployed to other audiences, including the Runet, according to ESET.
Analysts are advised to ignore suspicious links in social networks and messengers, particularly from unknown senders and to verify the information about the new features in popular software products in the official sources.
