The Department of Telecommunications, Government of India has issued a mandatory advisory for WhatsApp users, warning them about frauds happening through WhatsApp.
If you use WhatsApp then this news is very important for you. The Department of Telecommunications, Government of India has issued an urgent information warning for WhatsApp users. People who commit cybercrimes keep finding different ways to cheat people through WhatsApp and also keep using them to cheat people. One of these ways is to cheat by calling from unknown numbers, about which the government has issued a warning.
A new scam started on WhatsApp
Criminals who commit cybercrimes through WhatsApp call WhatsApp from unknown numbers and then cheat the users by confusing their words under some pretext. Most of such calls are coming from international numbers.
The Department of Telecommunications of India has given information about this that for the last several days many people have been complaining that they are receiving WhatsApp calls from the government department. Through this call, cybercriminals are threatening people to disconnect their mobile numbers by giving them the fear of getting involved in illegal activities. For this reason, we have issued this warning.
Department of Telecommunications issued an advisory
The Department of Telecommunications further said in its advisory that people should ignore WhatsApp calls coming from any foreign number starting with +92. The Department of Telecommunications has said that do not receive any calls coming from such numbers. If you receive any call on WhatsApp or from any such number, then immediately report it on the government complainant web portal.
For your information, let us tell you that +92 is the international code of Pakistan, just as +91 is prefixed to any mobile number of India, because it is the international code of India, similarly to any mobile number of Pakistan. +92 remains ahead. However, this does not mean that the calls you receive on WhatsApp from numbers starting with +92 are coming from Pakistan, because nowadays cybercriminals can get access to any country's international code, along with any fictitious number. Making and then calling any common person is not a very difficult task.
Complain about eye
The government has advised us to stay away from calls coming from such numbers and has said that even if we receive a call from such a number, we should not share any of our personal information even by mistake and complain about it to the government. Do it on the platform. Let us tell you that the government has recently launched a new web portal and mobile app named Chakshu. On this platform, users can report any kind of online fraud attempted online fraud or any online fraud that they believe is possible.
