This is the WhatsApp button cyber criminals want you to press to drain your bank account
Cyber scams have increased by leaps and bounds in recent years, and much of this is due to their sophistication in the sense that today there is hardly any error or detail indicating that it is a scam, apart from the fact that the criminals There is more and more fraud nearby. Information about their potential victims to create more realistic deceptions.
One of the ways in which cyber crime is increasing the most is through social networks and messaging apps. A big vein has been discovered in WhatsApp in SpainIt is the most used platform in our country.
Attackers have many techniques to obtain their victims’ personal data or money, the most popular of which are identity theft And for a few months now, there has been an increase in attacks that take advantage of WhatsApp functions to drain your bank account.
The meta messaging app offers users multiple forms of communication, including video calls. They provide users with a number of tools to improve calls, including screen sharing option Which, although it can be very useful for some cases, it turns out This is a button that can trigger the theft of all our savings.
The screen sharing option is a function that allows us Show the other person what you see in yourself, So that the content of your smartphone gets duplicated in the other person’s smartphone. And as the Russian bank Sberbank warns, there is a new scam that takes advantage of this function to drain our bank account.
How does this scam work?
Like most cyber scams, cyber criminals They contact the victim by pretending to be someone they are not, in this case, they do this by impersonating your bankfor both of these Profile photo as related name However, the account matches your bank The phone number is probably foreign.
In conversation they will tell us that there was There is some error in our bank accountWith the card, they will claim that they have made a significant charge which is being stopped due to lack of confirmation from us or due to some other issue. Immediate action is required.
To solve this problem, our alleged bank will tell us that it is best to make a video call. If we assume that for now We will receive a video call from another number, It does not match the person who initiated the conversation, and we will find out who is calling us You do not have camera, They’ll probably tell us it’s broken or something.
Their purpose will be to make you believe that Let’s activate the screen sharing button, claiming that this way they can help us solve the problem, If we listen to them and follow their instructions, by accessing our bank app and entering our access code, cyber criminals will be able Register our password and from there they can access our account and steal all our money.
Although it is true that most banking apps require biometric data (fingerprint or facial recognition) to access, there are also cases where they ask us for our access code. Avoiding this scam is as simple as Don’t share the screen with anyone other than people you trust and are close to.
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