WhatsApp A new online fraud case has been exposed. A Kerala man lost Rs 405 crore after downloading the Meta messaging app on his phone through a link sent on it. Many scam cases have come to light through WhatsApp, but this case in Kerala is completely different. The hackers first trapped the young man and then lured him out of crores of rupees in the name of investment.
If reports are to be believed, a 45-year-old man from Tripunithura in Kerala lost Rs 4.05 crore after falling into a hacker trap. This matter is also serious because the hackers have trapped this man in their trap for 2.5 months (two and a half months) without him getting any clues. First, the hacker uses social engineering to lure the person into investing. In order to earn high returns, the person promised everything to the hacker and wasted his hard-earned money. The hacker asked the man to download an investing app. For this, the APK link was sent to him via WhatsApp message.
Using an APK link sent via WhatsApp message, the person first downloaded the app on his smartphone and then allegedly invested his earnings, lured by high returns. Hackers continue to lure people into investing with huge returns, and people continue to invest without thinking. By the time he understood something, a big scam had already happened to him. The police have opened a case and launched an investigation into the matter.
You should also be careful
- Do not open any link received through WhatsApp or any other messaging platform.
- Don’t pay attention to messages or calls from unknown numbers.
- Don’t fall into the trap of huge rewards, free gifts, lotteries, etc. Most of these offers are provided by hackers.
- Do not install any third-party applications on your phone.
How to detect fake apps
- To detect fake apps, go to your Google account in your Android smartphone.
- Then click on the profile picture and click on the “Playback Protect” option.
- Here you can choose to check for harmful applications.
- Click on it and check for dangerous apps present in your phone and uninstall them immediately.
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