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Scammers are stealing WhatsApp verification code because we’re too gullible

today18 November 2020

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It would appear that scammers are getting their hands on WhatsApp’s verification codes.

There’s a group of scammers posing as friends and relatives asking for verification codes that they ‘accidentally’ sent to someone else’s phone number.

These codes are needed when you’re signing or making a new account on another phone.

That itself should sound dodgy, but because we think they are friends and family in need, we would think nothing of it.

 

Speaking to The New Paper, Tan said he was…

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