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Fake vouchers for high street stores including Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Asda are being shared on WhatsApp - and they could leave you skint.The messages are designed to look like they’ve been sent to you by an actual contact, who urges you to click on a link to claim the voucher.The texts typically read: “Hello, ASDA is giving away £250 Free Voucher to celebrate 68th anniversary, go here to get it ... Enjoy and thanks me later !."Clicking on the link - which looks like a real link from the retailer, but is actually bogus - will take you to a fake website.The site will attempt to get you to hand over personal information, including financial details.The site will also install cookies onto your phone that can track you, or add browser extensions that can show you unwanted ads.When it comes to something like this, the classic rule remains true: If something looks too good to be true, then it probably is.
WhatsApp app tricked over a million usersGoogle Play has suffered another failure, as over one million users have been duped into downloading a fake version of WhatsApp made available in the official Android app store.
QuoteFake vouchers for high street stores including Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Asda are being shared on WhatsApp - and they could leave you skint.The messages are designed to look like they’ve been sent to you by an actual contact, who urges you to click on a link to claim the voucher.The texts typically read: “Hello, ASDA is giving away £250 Free Voucher to celebrate 68th anniversary, go here to get it ... Enjoy and thanks me later !."Clicking on the link - which looks like a real link from the retailer, but is actually bogus - will take you to a fake website.The site will attempt to get you to hand over personal information, including financial details.The site will also install cookies onto your phone that can track you, or add browser extensions that can show you unwanted ads.When it comes to something like this, the classic rule remains true: If something looks too good to be true, then it probably is.http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/whatsapp-scam-tesco-asda-vouchers-how-to-spot-avoid-messages-links-crime-a8041096.htmlIf you use Android, be extra wary: QuoteWhatsApp app tricked over a million usersGoogle Play has suffered another failure, as over one million users have been duped into downloading a fake version of WhatsApp made available in the official Android app store.https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/fake-whatsapp-app-tricked-over-a-million-users-19195.html
So, how did the scammers – keen to earn advertising revenue by tricking users into downloading their ad-riddled version of the popular messaging service – manage to make it look like their bogus edition really did come from WhatsApp Inc.For the answer we can blame a single character, a Unicode character that looks just like whitespace.You see, the developer wasn’t “WhatsApp Inc.” but rather “WhatsApp Inc. ” (with what appears to be a trailing blank space).