New trick of scammers in WhatsApp: Duma warns of account theft under the guise of “rent”
An alarm has sounded in the Russian parliament: users of the popular messenger WhatsApp are being targeted by a new, sophisticated fraud scheme. Anton Nemkin, a member of the Duma committee in charge of information policy, information technology and communications, as well as the federal coordinator of the Digital Russia project, announced the emergence of attackers hunting for other people's accounts under the pretext of temporarily “renting” them.