Watsapp scam?

[Jonzjob]

I have just had an email from 'watsapp', or that's what it says it is. Fill in a simple 4 answers, 3 chances to choose one of 16 boxes and on the second try I won an iPhone 13 Pro. All I needed to do was to give my name and address and donate £1 to get it within 3 to 5 days.

Needless to say, I am now waiting for the delivery of my new toy, well I would be if I had filled out the info they asked for.

It looked quite genuine, but I don't think it was. Do you?

 

[IWT]

WhatsApp doesn't end emails - as far as I know. Never heard of its doing that.

That would be my number one reason for disregarding it. And the idea of them offering gifts - c'mon John, you must be teasing us??

Ian

 

[Jonzjob]

It came up as a missed voicemail message Ian. My sister In Aussie is very poorly and at first I thought it was a message from my b-in law so I took an apprehensive look at it. That's when I realised it was going to be a scam.

I don't know a lot about watsapp so I didn't know that they don't send emails, but I do now!

 

[pm-r]

It looked quite genuine, but I don't think it was. Do you?

A good way to do a quick chek on such outfit's SPAM is to just ask Google and just include a statement such as you posted as a search phrase, ie: "I have just had an email from 'watsapp' " or substitute any other name of the organization it says it was from and you should get several hits, something like this:

I have just had an email from 'watsapp' - Google Search

www.google.com

EDIT: here's an article about such scamming messages:

WhatsApp and Gmail alert: Opening these messages could be costly

WHATSAPP and users of email services such as Gmail and Outlook are being warned to watch out for an ever-growing risk from scams.

www.express.co.uk

But hopefully most users know about these already and just delete and Trash them.



- Patrick
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[Jonzjob]

Thank you for the link and idea Patrick. With my vast knowledge of watsapp and the like you could write everything I know about them on a postage stamp in 4" letters!

You can rest assured that I will remember about it though, well until next time

 

[nancyspeed]

With my vast knowledge of watsapp and the like you could write everything I know about them on a postage stamp in 4" letters!

Same here! For a month or so I got numerous emails telling me I had a whatsapp message to read. I just keep deleting them. Anyone that knows me knows you just need to call me or send me an email. But I did have a call last year from some idiot telling me he was in jail and needed money and kept saying "grandma please help me I love you" blah blah. I leet him go on a while and when he stopped I told him since I never had children it was really not possible I had grandchildren. Click.

 

[pm-r]

Thank you for the link and idea Patrick. With my vast knowledge of watsapp and the like you could write everything I know about them on a postage stamp in 4" letters!

Well John, I guess you obviously have a bit more knowledge than I do how about such outfits.



- Patrick
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[Jonzjob]

Simple really Patrick. Some people think that I know damm nothing, actually I know damm all. A real smartass actually.

Errrrrr, not too sure oif that is what I really meant to say