How to Avoid Hijacking WhatsApp - About Moba Games
Seputargamemoba.com – WhatsApp is now one of the popular short message applications that many people use to communicate. This application is often an easy target for ignorant hands, between couples who cannot trust their partners, to criminal purposes.
One of the most common crimes committed against the WhatsApp application is wiretapping, hijacking, stalking, and other crimes.
According to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), hijacking a WhatsApp account is usually successful if the victim leaks a six-digit verification code.
This code will only be received by WhatsApp users when an attempt to change the phone number associated with their account is sent via SMS.
Meanwhile, one of the methods used is a scammer, by contacting potential victims and then disguised in various modes, for example they claim to have entered the wrong phone number so that they stray into the number of the potential victim when trying to complete an online transaction. As a result, the transaction authorization code has been sent to the victim’s phone and asks to provide the code.
This tactic usually misleads victims into thinking that they are sending an unrelated TAC (transaction authorization code) to the fraudster. When in fact they handed over a six-digit verification code to the victim’s own WhatsApp account.
How to Avoid WhatsApp Hijacking Actions
WhatsApp users must always be suspicious of any attempt to get a six-digit verification code. MCMC reminded the importance of not revealing the code to others to prevent account hijacking.
WhatsApp users are also required to enable verification on WhatsApp. Including using a more complicated PIN number for their voice mailbox as an added security measure.
According to the FAQ by WhatsApp, users may be sent a verification code via SMS, even if it is not requested, for a number of reasons. WhatsApp says this could happen because someone mistyped their own number, or a hacker tried to take over the person’s account.
Without the code, the hacker will not be able to complete the verification process. This can prevent the account from being hijacked.
However, if the hijacker has taken over the account, the user will have to log in to WhatsApp with the phone number and verify the phone number by entering the six-digit code received via SMS.
After entering the six-digit SMS code, the hacker using the account will log out automatically.
Users may also be asked to provide a two-step verification code. If you don’t know this code, the hijacker using the user account might have enabled two-step verification.
Unfortunately, users will have to wait seven days before being able to sign in without a two-step verification code. And before that happens, the perpetrators may have moved, copied conversations, media, and committed fraud on behalf of the account owner.
Source: CNBC Indonesia
