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.
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