WhatsApp: Warning Of "Tobias Mathis" - What Is This Chain Letter?

2023 Author: Sheila Hailey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-08-25 04:29

The message is as follows:

Here's how you get cheated by phishing:

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WhatsApp chain letter "Tobias Mathis" is a lie

Like all WhatsApp chain letters, the one about "Tobias Mathis" is also a lie. You can relax, everything is fine. This is the truth:

1. The chain letter has been in circulation since 2017 and is shared by ignorant WhatsApp users.
2. The message says "Whats Up ", not "Whats App ". That alone is a great clue to a fraud message.
3. A WhatsApp contact cannot be a virus, at most it is inactive or blocked.
4. A virus cannot “destroy a hard drive” on mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets because mobile devices do not have hard drives, but flash memory.
5. If there was something like a virus disguised as a WhatsApp contact, it would not be able to spread just because you saved its number in WhatsApp. Neither could he "eat through the list of your contacts," whatever that means.
6. Assuming you would call a hacker's cell phone number, the hacker could not infect your cell phone with this call.
7. When the number 01719626509 was called, we were informed that the number had not been assigned.
8. We do not know the broadcaster “EUROP1”. Neither do we know that any broadcasters would have confirmed this type of chain letter.
9. Even the transmitter "Sat.1" is not written correctly and reads "SAT1" in the message.

Protect yourself from WhatsApp phishing:

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WhatsApp message from "Tobias Mathis" - you should do or avoid that

1. Does not open links or attachments from unknown or dubious WhatsApp contacts. These are usually phishing attempts.
2. Do NOT forward the message!
3. Just delete the message.
4. Garbage and false scaremongering need not be passed on.