COLlive BY COLLIVE
Have you received a money request from a friend? A few Lubavitchers told COLlive their WhatsApp account has been hacked and thousands of dollars were stolen via fake messages.
COLlive has received reports from multiple sources of a recent scam that has already swindled many people out of thousands of dollars. The public is advised to be vigilant and aware of this disturbing trend.
The scam goes something like this:
Let’s use Moshe as an example. A hacker manages to hack into Moishe’s WhatsApp and locks him out of accessing it himself. Then they send an innocent message to all of Moishe’s contacts asking them to do him a small favor and send some money to a certain account. Moishe’s unsuspecting friends think that they are helping him out when, in reality, the money is being sent to an account where they will never be able to retrieve it from.
