Scam emails claim they contain recipients' WhatsApp chat/call history backups. Phishing, Scam, Social Engineering, Fraud. In summary, by trusting the "WhatsApp" scam emails, many users risk experiencing serious privacy issues, financial loss and even identity theft. Therefore, by entering IDs, username and passwords to such sites, many users inadvertently expose their details to the website designers, thereby resulting in the accounts being stolen. Sites of this type can target a wide variety of sensitive/personal information such as names, surnames, addresses, telephone numbers, emails, banking account and/or credit card details.įurthermore, some phishing websites are disguised as log-in/sign-in web pages of legitimate services/platforms.
Supposedly, the backups are of: 46 deleted WhatsApp messages, 3549 read messages and 1236579 restored messages.Īs mentioned, however, the link in the messages and attached HTML file redirect to a phishing website.
The text within the emails lists the retrieved messaging and call histories. The scam messages are in Portuguese and claim that they contain recipients' WhatsApp message/call history backups, however, the attached HTML file and the link listed in the emails redirects to a phishing website, which attempts to trick recipients into providing their personal information.Īccording to a rough translation, the fake "WhatsApp" email subject states that recipients' private messages have been attached to the messages. These deceptive emails are in no way associated with the genuine WhatsApp company.
As the name implies, the emails distributed through this spam campaign are disguised as important notifications from WhatsApp, a cross-platform messaging and VoIP (Voice over IP) service. The term "spam campaign" is used to define a large-scale operation, during which thousands of deceptive/scam messages are sent. "WhatsApp email scam" refers to a spam email campaign.
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