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WhatsApp OTP Scam: Official URLs in Use to Steal Accounts, Identity and Cause Financial Fraud
The WhatsApp OTP link flaw can be exploited by essentially anyone on the internet, therefore putting billions at risk. (Illustration: News18.com)
WhatsApp has a number of open URLs that anyone on the internet can tweak to replicate an OTP, therefore giving scammers a convincing tool to use to cheat unsuspecting users.
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WhatsApp has a major security issue of having open URLs, which appear to show a prompt suggesting that an OTP (one-time password) has been delivered to a user. The URLs are available easily on the open internet, and to make matters worse, can be modified by any user to show any six-digit OTP that they wish to show on screen. This is one key technique that is reportedly being used by scammers in India, who target unsuspecting individuals and use this link to convince them that the call is indeed being made on behalf of WhatsApp. After gaining confid
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