How to avoid WhatsApp account theft. This is the indication given by the Postal Police which highlights “an ever-increasing number of citizens report the receipt on their smartphone of SMS of the type” Hello, I sent you a code by mistake, could you send it back to me ? Which appear to be sent by users to their own address book. Very often, users, misled by the presumed knowledge of the sender, do not hesitate to comply with the request, responding to the message, without realizing that they are the victims of a scam. The code sent, in fact, allows the cybercriminals to enter the WhatsApp account and use the instant messaging service to pursue the fraud using the victim’s phone number, as well as to gain access to the contacts saved in the phone book. addresses, triggering a sort of chain letter – the WhatsApp profile of the user asking us to send them the code is actually our contact who in turn had their account breached, through the same fraudulent behavior – who now affects thousands of citizens all over Italy ”.
The Post and Communications Police reminds you that the codes that arrive by SMS are strictly personal and must never be shared, even if one of our contacts or by friends and / or family requests it; never click on any link in the SMS; We recommend that you activate the “two-step verification” available in the “App account-settings” area which allows us to enter a six-digit personal code, which the system asks us for during the first access and for all the modification operations which we will go to effect on our profile; if we have fallen into the fraud, it is necessary to immediately inform our contacts of what happened to us so that they do not become potential victims of the chain. How to recover your account: “log into WhatsApp with your phone number and verify the number by entering the 6-digit code you receive by SMS; once you enter the 6 digit SMS code, anyone using your account will be automatically logged out. You may also be asked to provide your two-step verification code. If you don’t know the code, the person using your account may have enabled two-step verification, ”the note concludes.
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