"Whats!App Subscription Expired" Phishing Scams

Whats!App Subscription Expired Phishing Scams

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.

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A Sample of the "Whats!App Subscription Expired" Phishing Scam

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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Dec. 4, 2017 at 1:27 PM by
"Whats!App Subscription Expired" Phishing Scams
an anonymous user from: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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.

Delete

Dec. 4, 2017 at 1:35 PM by
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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.

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Oct. 30, 2017 at 5:32 PM by
"Whats!App Subscription Expired" Phishing Scams
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Here is another scam:

"From: WhatsApp Inc. [mailto:elmo@gotonets.com]

Sent: 30 October 2017 12:44

Subject: Customer ID - 317937137

Dear - Whats!App Subscription Expired

WhatsApp is free to use for the first year.462377755

Once the free one - year trial period ends,588773022 there is an annual subscription fee of £0.89 GBP.353146424

Click Here to subscribe and continue using our app.

Thank you for supporting WhatsApp.200418730

2017 © WhatsApp Inc.

Privacy & Terms"

Delete

Sep. 6, 2017 at 4:48 AM by
"Whats!App Subscription Expired" Phishing Scams
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Here is another scam:

"From: Whats!App <news@villa.edu>

Date: 5 September 2017 at 19:50:18 BST

To: <campbell.dongola@blueyonder.co.uk>

Subject: Whats!App Subscription Expired - code: 957520883

WhatsApp subscription expires in 48 hours."

Delete

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