Police alert about the latest scam at Whatsapp: you can run out of money and data

The National Police has alerted citizens to a scam that is affecting WhatsApp users. Through a "simple but very effective" scam, criminals manage to take control of the victim's account, access all their contacts and use their identity to ask for money. Specifically, the police force has detailed in a statement that the scam starts when scammers manage to access the WhatsApp account of a family member or friend of yours, with whom they have acce…

The deception begins with an urgent SMS requesting a verification code to supposedly retrieve an account, allowing cybercriminals to take full control of the profile

The offender uses the accounts of friends or family of the victims so that the scammer does not distrust the message

A new type of scam is circulating on WhatsApp. Under the pretext of voting in a school competition, perpetrators gain access to the victim's account and then ask saved private contacts for a loan. Several people have already been defrauded of tens of thousands of crowns.

The National Police has issued an alert this Friday after detecting in Elche a scam that is spreading as very quickly as using WhastApp's contacts to do so. "Through a simple but very effective deception, criminals manage to take control of the victim's account, access all his contacts and use his identity to ask for money," explained in a statement. Over the last few days, the Ilicitan Police Station has received a large number of complaints co…

An audio recording circulated in recent hours on the WhatsApp social network alerting people to alleged robberies in Arrasate has spread like wildfire. In a statement, the Municipal Police denies the viral message, warning that it is "a hoax," since, it asserts, neither the Udaltzaingoa nor the Ertzaintza have been "notified of the events being reported."