"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams

WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon Phishing Scams

WhatsApp users, if you have received email, text or social messages like the one below, which claim that your subscription is ending, please delete them and do not follow the instructions in them. This is because 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.

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The Phishing / Fraudulent WhatsApp Email Message

From: WhatsApp <info@lifeteen.com>

Subject: Your subscription is ending soon.

Date: 1 May 2017 at 13:25:53 BST

Attention: Please update your payment information today to avoid service interruption.

WhatsApp

Your subscription is ending soon.

Please update your payment information now.

UPDATE YOUR PAYMENT INFORMATION

Our records indicate that your WhatsApp trial service is exceeding the one year period. At the completion of your trial period your WhatsApp will no longer be able to send or receive message. To continue using WhatsApp without interuption, we need you to subscribe for any of our subscription periods.

To avoid service interruption, please subscribe by visiting your account page below.

Sign in to the customer portal with your Number:

We appreciate your prompt attention to this matter, and look forward to continuing to meet your communication needs.

Sincerely,

The WhatsApp Team

Account Information

Service:

WhatsApp Subscription

Helpful Resources

Sign in to the service portal.

Have Questions? Visit the Community.

This is a mandatory service communication. To set your contact preferences for other communications, visit the Promotional Communications Manager.

This message was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address. Please do not reply to this message.

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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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Nov. 6, 2018 at 8:58 PM by
"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams
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Here is another scam:

"From: WhatsApp <no_replay@WhatsApp.com>

Sent: Tuesday 6 November 2018 22:27

Subject: Your subscription is ending soon

Please update your payment information now

Our records indicate that your WhatsApp trail service is exceeding the one year period.

At the completion of your trial period your WhatsApp will no longer be able to send or

receive message. To continue using WhatApp whthout interuption. we need you to subscribe

for any of our subscribtion periods.

To avoid service interruption, please subscribe by visiting your account page below

Sign in to the hxxp://bit.do/The_WhatsApp_Team Withe your Number:

We appreciate your prompt attention to this matter, and look forward to countinuing

to meet your communication needs.

Sinerely,

The WhatsApp Team"

Delete

Oct. 11, 2017 at 10:05 AM by
"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams
an anonymous user from: Edgware, England, United Kingdom

I have received emails from info@lifeteen relating to WhatsApp, NatWest, Lloyds and HMRC. I have set up various rules and filters to have these all junked, but these guys are prolific.

Delete

Oct. 5, 2017 at 4:09 AM by
"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams
an anonymous user from: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Follow up: on lifeteen.com website, their "contact us" email address is indeed "info@lifeteen.com".

Delete

Oct. 5, 2017 at 4:05 AM by
"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams
an anonymous user from: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

I have received numerous spam emails, not just about WhatsApp but banking, from info@lifeteen.com.

Looking up "lifeteen.com" they appear to be a US-based evangelical Catholic youth group. Either their email has been comprehensively spoofed - in which case they might like to know about it for damage limitation purposes - or they are not quite what they would like to appear.

Any comments from Lifeteen.com on this?

Delete

Oct. 5, 2017 at 6:19 AM by
"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams
info

Their email may have been compromised or spoofed. <a href="/article/2013/1/28/what-is-email-spoofing/">Click here</a> to learn more about email spoofing.

Delete

Oct. 4, 2017 at 4:09 AM by
"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams
info

Here is another scam:

"On 4 Oct 2017, at 04:41, WhatsApp <postmaster@lifeteen.com> wrote:

Attention: Please update your payment information today to avoid service interruption. View this email in your browser.

<whatsapplogo.png>

Your subscription is ending soon.

Please update your payment information now.

UPDATE YOUR PAYMENT INFORMATION

Our records indicate that your WhatsApp trial service is exceeding the one year period. At the completion of your trial period your WhatsApp will no longer be able to send or receive message. To continue using WhatsApp without interuption, we need you to subscribe for any of our subscription periods.

To avoid service interruption, please subscribe by visiting your account page below.

Sign in to the customer portal with your Number:

We appreciate your prompt attention to this matter, and look forward to continuing to meet your communication needs.

Sincerely,

The WhatsApp Team

Account Information

Service:

WhatsApp Subscription"

Delete

Oct. 3, 2017 at 2:31 AM by
"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams
info

Here is another scam:

"From: WhatsApp Payments <fpwiu-Noti02-24133530-IggHPeJX@nptcgroup.ac.uk>

Date: 02/10/2017 14:30 (GMT 00:00)

Subject: - Payment Authentication Interruption Confirmation - "TSA/GGB/7482-9704-7413/17"

Dear,

Requested pay amount: 0,88 GBP

Attention: Please update your payment information today to avoid service interruption.

WhatsApp.

Your subscription is ending soon.

Confirmation your payment information now hxxp://payments.rev-txid-ev9ga.od90mn.com

UPDATE YOUR PAYMENT INFORMATION

Our records indicate that your WhatsApp trial service is exceeding the one year period. At the completion of your trial period your WhatsApp will no longer be able to send or receive message. To continue using WhatsApp without interuption, we need you to subscribe for any of our subscription periods.

To avoid service interruption, please subscribe by visiting your account page below.

Sign in to the customer portal with your Number.

We appreciate your prompt attention to this matter, and look forward to continuing to meet your communication needs.

Sincerely,

WhatsApp Team"

Delete

Sep. 14, 2017 at 4:24 AM by
"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams
an anonymous user from: London, England, United Kingdom

This address is also being used in a scam message relating to Lloyds Bank:

"New device signed in to

info@mandlautocare.co.uk

Your Lloyds Account was just signed in to from a new Windows device. You're getting this email to make sure it was you.

CHECK ACTIVITY **this is the link button in the message"

Delete

Sep. 12, 2017 at 2:00 PM by
"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams
an anonymous user from: Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Also the address info@lifeteen is being used to send phishing emails pretending to be from Metro Bank.

Delete

Sep. 14, 2017 at 4:10 AM by
"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams
an anonymous user from: London, England, United Kingdom

Also being used to send phishing emails pretending to be from Lloyds Bank. Received 2 this morning.

Delete

Oct. 2, 2017 at 5:21 AM by
"WhatsApp Subscription is Ending Soon" Phishing Scams
an anonymous user from: Brighton, England, United Kingdom

I have also had emails from this address for Natwest, Santander and HMRC. All went to my junk folder, but it seems they will pose as any and many companies to trick you!

Delete

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