WhatsApp 'fraudulent' messages costing mobile customers a fortune, warns FACUA
Sunday, January 19, 2014 @ 7:26 PM
A LEADING consumer protection association has warned about a scam through the free text-messaging service WhatsApp which has led to mobile phone users receiving massive bills.
The firm Iebolina Tradicional, S.L., which has been reported by FACUA with a view to prosecution, has been sending messages from the number 25568 to random users pretending to be a friend, or contact.
They include texts such as: “I'm writing to you from 'Wassap' [sic]. Did you add me the other day? Tell me if my messages are getting through to you!” or, “There must but a problem with my mobile, it keeps sending you the same photo! Have you seen it? Shall I add you on Facebook or 'Wassap', or via SMSDuo? What do you think?”
Mobile users who reply to these messages then find out they have come from a private-sector firm and a premium-rate number when they receive their bills and find each response has cost them an extortionate amount of money
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