In 2021, Facebook’s WhatsApp has been received headlines recently for its privacy policy, however, many users are not taking this app as a risk because a lot of scams is going on nowadays via online platform and applications.
The latest incident is that many users have reported that they are receiving video calls on WhatsApp from unknown numbers and after the user receives the call, the screen shows a video of a nude girl, and then the call gets disconnected. Not only this, after the phone is disconnected, these cybercriminals send screenshots of the video and ask for money in return.
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If a report from Medium is to be believed, if a user deletes the phone number, still they are not spared from this con. This case purely is of online extortion or can also be termed as cyber sextortion. If they don’t get the money they desire, these people also threaten to upload the screenshots on the internet and make them viral. Besides that, they ask for a lumpsum amount from the victim which puts them in financial distress.
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