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Whatsapp's 'False Rescue' Scam: How They Act and 3 Signals to Detect Them

Summary by Moncloa
The scam of the ‘false rescue’ via WhatsApp has become one of the cruelest and most effective threats of today’s cyber crime, a scam that does not exploit technological failures, but the most powerful spring of the human being: love for the family. The criminals have perfected a technique of social engineering that supplants the identity of a son or daughter in distress, generating a situation of panic and urgency designed to nullify our judgmen…
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The scam of the ‘false rescue’ via WhatsApp has become one of the cruelest and most effective threats of today’s cyber crime, a scam that does not exploit technological failures, but the most powerful spring of the human being: love for the family. The criminals have perfected a technique of social engineering that supplants the identity of a son or daughter in distress, generating a situation of panic and urgency designed to nullify our judgmen…

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Moncloa broke the news in on Saturday, July 12, 2025.
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