Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
The websites: "www.whatsappat.com" and "www.perfect-player.com" are malicious. The websites are fakes and were created by cyber-criminals or scammers to trick Facebook, WhatsApp and other social networking users into completing surveys that they will never get paid for and download malicious software that will infect their computers with a virus, Trojan horse or some other malware.
The fake websites will also promise online users a chance to view a video, if they complete a few surveys, but there is no video and the scammers or cybercriminals will get paid for each completed surveys.
So, following the instructions on the fake websites will make the cyber-criminals and scammers make a lot of money, while the online users who were tricked into the following the instructions left feeling disappointed.
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