As the most popular messaging platform in the world, WhatsApp is no stranger to scams and hacks aimed at unlawfully gaining access to the bills of its users. This latest rip-off has been doing the rounds in Pakistan and has incurred a plethora of complaints from involved users.
As it happens, a top quantity of people of late have been receiving faux calls from people who claim to be PTA officials. These officers proceed to ask for verification codes that have been sent to the users’ numbers. In essence, these impostors are making an attempt to attain get right of entry to to your account by way of convincing you to provide up the verification code that has been sent to you by means of WhatsApp.
Aside from being genuinely wary of any calls that you receive from humans claiming to be PTA officials, there is an extra protection measure that you can undertake to preserve yourself protected from these malicious advances. You can add two-step verification to your account, which can be enabled via having access to the applicable alternative from the Account settings. Upon tapping it, you will be brought about to enter a 6-digit PIN code, which will be required every time you prefer to log in to your account.
This will serve as a fairly advantageous impediment for everyone attempting to wrongfully get right of entry to your account due to the fact even if they have your variety as well as the verification code despatched to you, they can’t log in until they understand this 6-digit PIN code.
While most of us are really not in the dependancy of organising two-step verification for our WhatsApp accounts, doing so is essential now as it will shield you from the malicious scam and ensure that you are contacts and messages are not published to someone else.
