“Got Call From Saved Number”: Ex-UN Official On Scam That Blocked Her WhatsApp

New Delhi: A former United Nations (UN) official has warned people against a new One-Time Password (OTP) scam and urged her contacts not to entertain any requests for money from her number. In a post on X, UN former assistant secretary-general Lakshmi Puri said she received a phone call from a saved number and the caller asked her to share an OTP they “mistakenly” sent to her contact. The moment she shared the OTP, her WhatsApp stopped working and multiple contacts on her phone started receiving calls from her number asking for money. “I received a call from a number saved on my device yesterday evening. Since the person was known to me and she requested an OTP, which she said she had mistakenly sent to my number, I gave it to her. Following this, my WhatsApp stopped working and some people in my contacts started receiving calls from my number asking for money,” the former Indian diplomat said. Ms Puri has asked her friends and acquaintances not to respond to any such calls or requests to send money from her number. She wrote, “This is to caution all my friends and acquaintances who have my number saved on their
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