WhatsApp account theft: how to regain control of your chats and prevent it from happening …

While WhatsApp scams have always been a latent threat, they’ve started to do so in recent months multiply phone calls dupe the unsuspecting with ever more sophisticated campaigns. In this note, how to secure your chats and avoid account theft, step by step. In one of the most frequent, the attackers pose as Ministry of Health personnel – the call has the logo of the Cuidar app – with the excuse of coordinating a new dose of the drug covid vaccine. In a persuasive tone they explain that they are going to send a link with a number and once they receive it – everything happens in real time – they have to dictate it. When the person reads it to them, the WhatsApp account is hijacked. Immediately, the criminals start writing to the most frequent WhatsApp contacts, on behalf of the owner, to request the sending of virtual money. The apologies in the message are as varied as they are ingenious. From when he had a flat tire and left without a wallet, until he was robbed and needed a loan to get home. “Swindlers, with false job offers or requesting emergency relief, try to extract personal data, such
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