Jakarta –
Mother, the fraudulent mode of using the application WhatsApp happened again, here. This time, the messages won’t be sent via the app, but via SMS, Bunda.
This was also revealed by the Directorate of Cyber Crime (Dittipidsiber) Bareskrim at the National Police Headquarters in an account. Instagram-his. In its upload, the National Police Cyber said that the fraudster claimed to be an official number WhatsApp, Butt.
“Fraudsters never run out of ways to ensnare their victims, including through fraudulent messages sent by SMS,” said Siber Polri, quoted on Tuesday (4/5/2021).
“One form of SMS fraud is on behalf of the popular messaging application, WhatsApp,” he continued.
The SMS contains information that the recipient of the message has won a prize, Mother. To further attract the attention of the victim, the perpetrator of the fraud will write a prize money of hundreds of millions of rupiah.
In the screenshot uploaded by Dittipidsiber, it can be seen that the incoming message did not come from an official company WhatsApp, Mother. Not only that, the victim who received the SMS was also asked to click on the link which would later be used as a medium to steal the victim’s account.
To anticipate this happening to Mother, the Cyber Police has shared ways to prevent Mother from becoming the next victim, here.
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