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QR-Code-Trick: WhatsApp: How Fraudsters Capture Accounts - and Rip Off 500 Euros

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With requests for freely invented votes, fraudsters are now gaining access to WhatsApp accounts. How the scam works, why it is so dangerous - and how you protect yourself.

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With requests for freely invented votes, fraudsters are now gaining access to WhatsApp accounts. How the scam works, why it is so dangerous - and how you protect yourself.

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With requests for freely invented votes, fraudsters are now gaining access to WhatsApp accounts. How the scam works, why it is so dangerous - and how you protect yourself.

With requests for votes and surveys, fraudsters gain access to WhatsApp accounts. How does the scam work?

·Berlin, Germany
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A supposed vote lures many WhatsApp users into a trap at the moment. Via a link criminals hijack entire accounts

·Vienna, Austria
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The police warn against a new scam about WhatsApp, in which criminals try to capture accounts under the pretext of a dance voting, in order to then blackmail money from contacts. BURGENLAND/EISENSTADT. According to the police, fraud cases in which criminals call on WhatsApp to participate in a supposed dance voting are currently increasing. The aim of the perpetrators is to take over WhatsApp accounts in order to use them for further fraud and p…

With a fake vote on children's dance videos, criminals are currently trying to take over the WhatsApp accounts of their victims. They can start further fraud attempts with the hacked accounts, and they could get sensitive data from the victims.

·Linz, Austria
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nachrichten.at broke the news in Linz, Austria on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
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