Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Facebook - Whatsapp
WhatsApp users who have received email, text or social messages like the one below, which claim that their subscriptions have expired, are asked to delete them and should not follow the instructions in them. This is because WhatsApp is free and the messages are fakes, created by cyber criminals to trick WhatsApp users into visiting a fraudulent website that will steal their credit card and personal information. Remember, there is no WhatsApp subscription.
From: Whats!App <customer@villa.edu>Date: 4 September 2017 at 13:59:54 BSTSubject: Whats!App Subscription Expired code: 043216657Whats!App Subscription ExpiredHello,WhatsApp is free to use for the first year.Once the free one - year trial period ends,there is an annual subscription fee of £0.89 GBP.Click here to subscribe and continue using our app.Thank you for supporting Whatsapp.
From: Whats!App <customer@villa.edu>
Date: 4 September 2017 at 13:59:54 BST
Subject: Whats!App Subscription Expired code: 043216657
Whats!App Subscription Expired
Hello,
WhatsApp is free to use for the first year.
Once the free one - year trial period ends,
there is an annual subscription fee of £0.89 GBP.
Click here to subscribe and continue using our app.
Thank you for supporting Whatsapp.
WhatsApp users who have already been tricked by the fraudulent email messages are asked to contact their banks for help. They should let their banks know that they have unknowingly used their credit cards on a fraudulent website operated by cyber criminals.
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Someone has posted this mail from our domain to different people. This must be from a software as email id used is actually a mailing list. Please suggest next steps.
Not because the emails appear as if it came from your domain mean they were sent from it. The scammers may have sent the emails from somewhere else but spoofed the "From" email address to make them appear as if it came from your domain.But, if you still think the emails were sent from your domain, try changing all of your account passwords.
Here is another scam:"From: WhatsApp Inc. [mailto:elmo-gotonets.com] Sent: 30 October 2017 12:44Subject: Customer ID - 317937137 Dear - Whats!App Subscription ExpiredWhatsApp is free to use for the first year.462377755Once the free one - year trial period ends,588773022 there is an annual subscription fee of £0.89 GBP.353146424Click Here to subscribe and continue using our app.Thank you for supporting WhatsApp.2004187302017 © WhatsApp Inc.Privacy & Terms"
Here is another scam:"From: Whats!App Date: 5 September 2017 at 19:50:18 BSTTo: Subject: Whats!App Subscription Expired - code: 957520883WhatsApp subscription expires in 48 hours."
